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welcome to my unboxing of a new external drive solution from seagate this is the goflex desk for mac and while i normally don't really focus on mac products too much on this channel don't hit the dislike button yet guys because this product is not only for mac the thing that makes it for mac is the fact that it is vulnerable ready but thunderbolt has arrived on the pc here's a high in these suits motherboard BAM thunderbolt so we are actually going to be trying this out on a pc so we'll find out just how Mac optimized that happens to be but in the meantime yes okay mostly Thunderbolt has been deployed on the Mac up to 20 times faster than USB 2 up to 2 times faster than USB 3 it is compatible with Apple time machine good for it it can also care own check this out it includes a thunderbolt cable this is no small matter because thunderbolt cables are not cheap they are not the same as DisplayPort cables even though the pin out and the physical connector looks the same on first glance they are different because a thunderbolt cable actually has active processing actual chips in either end of the cable it is an active cable that makes it able to carry such an immense amount of data over that kind of a distance in an external connector okay durable soft touch finish high-performance desktop hard drive compatible with Thunderbolt displays and other devices okay 10 gigabit per second interface 12 times fast and firewire 800 dual ports allowing daisy chaining up to six devices minimizing clutter on your desktop and inside the box you got a bunch stuff which we are obviously going to find because we are going to open the box let's look at the accessories first in here we find a power connector okay we also find a haha this is my trivial no laughing matter included Thunderbolt cable so one of the easiest ways to tell the difference between a thunderbolt cable and a displayport cable is the Thunderbolt logo on it okay so yes displayport cables will have a DP logo thunderbolt ready cables we'll have a thunderbolt logo also for the time being most Thunderbolt cables have a much longer connector than most DisplayPort cables let me actually go find one all right so these are some of the different ways the cables can be recognized so the two on the outsides are Thunderbolt the one with the DP on it this one right here is display port and the one with no label but the shorter connector is also display port so thunderbolt cables can carry DisplayPort signals but DisplayPort cables cannot carry thunderbolt signals because they don't have the active processing tips inside the cables okay so here's our Thunderbolt cable ah ok moving on next we have the goflex desk Thunderbolt adapter this is a quick start guide so let's have a look and see how you quick start okay you get all the stuff and then you plug the thing in to the thing into the other thing so the wall into the thing into the other thing okay you use only with a seagate provided limited power supply okay got it done number two you plug the Thunderbolt thing into the other Thunderbolt thing with the Thunderbolt cable BAM that's how quick it is holy smokes ok let's open up the actual drive itself ooh this actually feels very nice yeah they do they have that soft touch finish on it seems pretty durable at first quorums that's kind of nice got ventilation in the back so you can see right there so oh oh yeah ok ok ok ok ok Kagan so this looks solid from here and then this is open so it's like business in the front party in the back yeah I went there ok so here I want to clarify something a little bit so here's we've got a seagate three and a half inch external drive ok this goflex desk for Mac is actually a combination of two products sort of so the three and a half inch drive is from there ok so this is their backup plus drive so you can buy another backup plus drive and then you can actually mount it see it's just a SATA connection down there so you just mount it to the Thunderbolt docking station right here so you got a couple little foam bits here so you don't scratch up your drive when you're putting it in and out I've also got this is going to get really shiny if I take that off so slick will thank me for leading it on but you've got like a plastic cover for protecting this surface as well okay you've got 43 posts here as well as the state of connectors you've got what looks like ventilation holes on the bottom for rubber pieces here to keep it from slipping around and power and two Thunderbolt connections as well as a seagate logo so you can actually use this as a quick and convenient way to instead of just using like external drives like you know just lying around you just buy these with their modular it's sort of go flex yeah I don't know if they call yeah they still call goflex ok so the goflex interface I don't know if you know if you guys know this but we use goflex drives for our test bench because that allows us to quickly switch between usb3 esata or whatever is the most convenient interface just with their go flex cable connectors so this this is like a go flag c-type interface clip into the Thunderbolt base or there are ones that as you can see here don't come with a thunderbolt base they come with a different base and then you just leave the base plugged in you get a bunch of these and you can just kind of go ok you put it on hopefully can get it to come off something pretty good okay so you just you know you put like a label on it like blah blah blah video archive June whatever to may winner at may goes for 14 so so jun 2012 to may 2013 um you put that away you keep it on a shelf you get another one you throw it on to your your Thunderbolt docking port here your whatever they want to call it goflex desk Thunderbolt guy and then you go ahead and start filling up a new one so the advantage of vulnerable is that compared to interfaces like USB which aren't really designed for intensive I oh they're fast but they're mostly fast with pure sequential reads and writes if you want to actually use it as a scratch disk or use it to run applications off of say for example if you have a notebook that doesn't have a ton of internal storage because it uses an SSD and you want to be able to plug into your desk and have mass storage that is going to be truly fast even when you're accessing small files even when you're running programs directly off of it something like this is going to be the way to go even compared to solutions like USB three so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the seagate goflex desk for mac and pc because pcs have Thunderbolt now don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos