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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit store dot phantom dot glass for the best iron screen protectors out there as well as HyperX so Seagate slash list sees demo might seem like an odd place to kick off our CES coverage but they've got some stuff inside that looks pretty cool it all starts here though with their living logo thing actually that's exactly what they call it sweet I got it right so living logo is there like patented idea of having their their new corporate logo and I'm gonna try and do this there we go there it is as like a living visualization of the data from a particular feed let's say Instagram Twitter New York Times you punch it to change I just changed over to Twitter so if I tweet a picture of my bum in theory I can get it to show up on that screen if I use the right hashtag but they've asked me very nicely not to do that so Seagate's marketing for this is grow seven the seven IRA 7 8 7 out of 7 I think are something along those lines it would have sounded a lot better if this was an 8 millimeter thick drive but it is unfortunately 7 millimeters thick now what they've done to achieve this is they've gone with a 5 millimeter Design Drive so it's a 500 gigabyte capacity and then by using a very unique 1 mil thick on either side steel enclosure they've managed to achieve the same drop rating resistance and all that stuff they told me I could drop it I mean I'm sure you wouldn't want to do that on a drive anymore than you absolutely have to as their regular drives which are typically anywhere from twice as thick or even more what's really cool is that for contrast they've actually got right next to it so here's the 5 millimeter drive that powers this bad boy this is a 35 year old Drive that is 5 megabytes that is obviously a lot thicker than 5 millimeters thick it's powered by a standard 4 pin molex goes to show you that power connectors been around for a while but other than that this thing is completely alien looking technology to me and this was manufactured for IBM way back 35 years ago I mean some of the stuff is hand done there's and soldered wires on the bottom of this drive pretty freakin cool I geeked out over this one over here we've got some consumer and prosumer stuff so first up is the personal cloud which is available in a one Bay or two Bay configuration and the objective here is something that I've seen attempted many times but rarely with much success so basically the idea is you've got either one or two drives the dual drive one will automatically be configured in RAID one for your protection and what it'll do is it'll allow you to select folders and have those ones backup to a cloud-based storage it'll allow you to stream to something like a Roku for example or a chromecast so you can manage all your media on your TV in that regard and the last one is that it actually backs up all of your PCs and even things like phones and fun drives if you can figure it all within their app of course I haven't tested any of this and maybe Seagate will give us a chance to check it out because it sounds pretty good the other consumer II thing that we've got here is an update to their previous generation Wireless of streaming drives that's not so much newer and faster and more amazing but definitely more affordable so this is simply named the Seagate wireless and Lord forbid they ever release anything else that's ever Wireless ever again because that's gonna get really confusing but pretty much it streams to three devices it's got 500 gigs of storage and it's got a very friendly look to it lasts for about six to eight hours on battery according to the folks here now the next one we've got is actually more of a product update than strictly speaking a whole new idea the list see rugged raid which is more of an update to their previous single drive products and I guess I kind of gave away what exactly they changed about it this is a dual drive rugged Drive version it's not exactly strictly speaking consumer this is more for your prosumers but it's got a couple of cool features so aside from having two hard drives inside it's got Thunderbolt or USB 3 and Thunderbolt requires no auxiliary power it is completely bus powered in order to run it off a thunderbolt although for USB 3 you will need an additional power adapter and it's got a hardware RAID controller inside which means you can configure it and raid 0 or raid 1 although I'd say if you're so concerned about your data that you're buying like you know an inch and a half thick rubber enclosure for it you should probably be running raid one so it's nice and safe and here's the star of the show this is the list see mirror and it kind of breaks the mold a little bit when I say mirror I don't mean redundancy and it's not particularly thin and it's not particularly rugged like the other stuff they were showing off this one is all about style so it's not targeted at me and I wouldn't be able to with a straight face say thanks to the $600 that Lisi slipped into my back pocket I endorsed this drive for me personally this is not gonna be the ticket because I'm more about looking at the cost per dollar part of the equation as opposed to the does this thing look amazing on my desk even the box itself like opens in this unique way so it's not really targeted at me because it's a 280 dollar one terabyte drive but what it is is it's something that feels a little bit different than a typical hard drive that's what they were going for and I'd say mission accomplished you guys the one thing I certainly appreciate is that even though it's a shiny piece of technology they've got Gorilla Glass on it so it should be slightly more fingerprint resistant than most shiny things although that doesn't mean that they don't include a cleaning cloth in the box it doesn't mean they don't want to have one here handy at the kiosk to keep these things all shined up so my lovely assistant here from Lissy has been showing us around to all the you know bear drives and external drives and suddenly I I blurted out well can you show me your racks and she kind of goes what I'm sorry if I made you really uncomfortable because what I actually meant was these racks yes over here this is the stuff that I really geek out over they've got the business storage for bay rack Mountain as so this is I think it's pretty self-explanatory I told them they should have an easier name for it they should call it like the the tiger claw or something like that but basically it's a for baked business mats and they got one down here that I personally am interested in for the first time as far as anything Thunderbolt goes because I'm more of a 10 Gigabit Ethernet kind of guy but this right here is the lesea eight big rack Thunderbolt 2 things so basically what you can do is if eight drives per one you you go ahead and rack mount these and then you actually daisy-chain up to six of them together which is going to give you 48 drives potentially on a single pool to Ray and then what you can actually do is use a little Mac Mini as a Gigabit Ethernet network share for it so it's not just limited to thunderbolt access you can also actually share it over the network it's still not quite what I'd want I would like to see every shared resource have ten gigabit connectivity to every computer but it is a huge step in the right direction and if you're looking for something that is just wicked crazy stupid fast this is pretty much it they had files copying on here at three gigabytes per second which is gonna be enough not just for an individual user not just five users but you could run many many users off an array like that at a time so I think that pretty much wraps it up for Seagate endlessy thank you very much for being a good sport about that that whole business there I'm very sorry so I just want to take a moment now to thank our sponsors for allowing us to be here at the show it's Phantom glass so the 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