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welcome to my unboxing of the Seagate backup plus for Mac it is time machine compatible and it is a backup for your digital life including well your time machine which is I mean apparently apples our time machines no I'm just kidding an overtime machine is basically it's just you know apples clever branding for you know what I don't have to prove I know what time machine is I think you guys believe me I know what time machine is so yeah it works with time machine it also works with Facebook so it's really cool about all of your backup plus drives is the software that's included with a backup plus Drive not only backs up your computer that can also backup data that you have stored in the cloud I mean remember Facebook is just cloud storage basically I mean your take a bunch of photos you upload them to Facebook and then you don't necessarily think about how safe they are you know what if what if Facebook didn't exist tomorrow and it took all your photos with it well this way you can make sure that your Facebook photos and other social media sites can be backed up as well I heard that they're going to be working on adding support for YouTube so I really hope they do that although it wouldn't necessarily work for me because I have a lot of stuff on YouTube but if you just have like you know a couple pictures of your dog or like your baby that you wanted to show you know babies grandma or whatever on a YouTube account you want to make sure you have it backed up somewhere this will work for you now it is compatible with Mac and PC the only real difference between a Mac Edition Drive and a PC Edition Drive is the included cable so let's have a look at what is included with our Mac Edition drives we've got a Quick Start Guide plug the thing into the other thing in the first thing Seagate limited warranty that is a two year warranty on this particular retail product we've got in here all of our cables so there's your power cable for the unit itself as well as a USB to cable and the Mac Edition I think actually includes more cables a firewire 800 cable so that is once again more useful for Mac users than it is for PC users because not a lot of pcs use firewire 800 because it is a slow redundant standard at this point in time which must be three just giving it the old how do you do in terms of performance so the doc down here is this is kind of cool why does it do that okay well it has two firewire 800 parts why does it do that oh can you can you daisy chain a firewire huh okay so it has power in firewire as well as USB two so you can use it on a PC performance will just kind of byte compared to using USB 3 or a firewire 800 so the drive is pretty bog-standard okay so you got your ventilation at the top it looks pretty slick it has a soft touch feel that's another difference between the Apple SKU and the PC SKU that we saw before that one had more of a shiny finish to it whereas this one is a more of a matte finish in terms of ventilation you've also got ventilation at the back so passive airflow is going to kind of come up through here float up through the top I mean drive to run so cool these days especially sea gates latest ones using the one terabyte platter so this is a 2 terabyte drive which means there's only two platters in there it also has a fair bit of metal in the enclosure so it has some weight to it and this piece up here is actually metal so you don't have to worry too much about the heat just getting contained in there now what I love about sea gates drives now originally I was sort of this was a bit of a head-scratcher for me because they released this drive and the sales pitch as far as I could tell was like you buy a drive and then you like it doesn't have an interface on it and you like the interfaces chipsets in the cable and you plug it in and then you have whatever interface you want now that it's sort of more mature and they have a lot more products as part of the ecosystem it totally makes sense to me now so instead of building expensive enclosures that have a bunch of different chipsets in them Seagate builds a less expensive enclosure that has no logic in it whatsoever it's just an enclosure with a SATA interface at the back no problem then they actually put the logic that you need into a cable or a docking station or whatever also the firewire chipset in the power is all done in here not in here this is just a drive that is you know nice and compatible and whatnot this is one of their last generation notebook like portable drives so that's USB 3 in fact if this you know drive in here could be powered by this I could actually just do that because it's just so no I can't even do that they're not gonna let me do that okay well I thought maybe but because this requires a drive that's a little power enough to be powered by a USB port and it probably makes sense that they don't let me do that because it would just be bad try to draw too much power from the USB port and then no one would be happy ok so this goes on here now not only this but you can actually take this drive and you can swap it on to a variety of other different docks whether they're USB 3 at the back or whether you have like the whole big like Thunderbolt one so you can daisy chain a bunch of thunderbolt external drives and another thing that you can do with them is you can actually just keep one dot next to your computer whether it's thunderbolt or USB 3 or whatever else the case may be I'd recommend something pretty high-performance if you're gonna use it to actually run applications or or edit photos or video off of but what's cool about it is you can actually just kind of leave it there and then you can use these these drives more as like cassettes so you go and you keep a bunch on your bookshelf you label them with whatever you know data it happens to be on them you know like you know my private video collection or whatever else the case may be and then you just go and plug in whichever one you happen to need at a given time and you're good to go just and you're done yeah unplug it and put it somewhere safe and then no big problems can occur so I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Seagate backup plus for Mac and don't forget to subscribe planners Texas for unboxings reviews and other computer videos