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this video is brought to you by Coolermaster mobile featuring the jazz pro notebook stand check it out at mobile cooler master - USA calm so hard drives aren't really allowed to just be a hard drive anymore it seems this is the wireless plus 4c Gaiden yeah it's an external hard drive and i mean i guess that yes still makes it a hard drive comes with a three-year warranty just like Seagate drives tend to come with has a fully recyclable package with a QR code on it so that's very exciting as well fully recyclable very very cool and we're just gonna open it up before we actually tell you anything about the wireless plus so the first thing that we can tell you once it's open I could get it open and I've ruined the package that's okay is that it's kind of similar except more advanced to this one that is the gold flex satellite the go flex branding has been abandoned but the concept of taking your media with you wherever you want to go has not been abandoned so this is the all new wireless plus it has a more sort of modern looking industrial design so instead of those rounded corners it has sort of a sharper top and bottom to it there you go there's holding up the older drive just for comparison there it has a bit of a different color scheme going on to it so it's sort of a a textured looking grey that looks very industrial has a bit of a different feel to it it's not so glossy so it's not gonna get all finger printing and ugly as quickly as the older one did the bottom is soft touch which I love the bottom of the old one was not soft touch so soft touch which I love there's your power in alright there's a friend of the drive there's the other side of the drive there's your power button which is actually located pretty similarly to the old one in fact it's about power ins in the same place as well although the plug is different and then the bottom turn out here this is the new unit soft touch feel as well as four little rubber feet so it's not going to go anywhere and that's pretty much it for the physicality of it there's an indicator for Wireless which brings us to why it's called the wireless plus as well as charging and in terms of other accessories you've got a Quick Start Guide you've got a nod called go flex cable apparently anymore but you've bought one of there sort of flexible interface cables there you go so it plugs into the drive like that the particular one that's included is USB three although you could plug in different ones if you wanted to access it via firewire or SATA or anything else that might actually matter USB three is going to be the most important one so it could even use Thunderbolt if you wanted it also comes with a USB 2 power adapter so you don't have to plug it into a computer just to power it and finally a wall wart that allows you to not plug it into a computer just to charge it so let's talk about what makes it special it is a wireless Drive so you can store up to it's a one terabyte drive for this particular model here so you could store up to 500 HD videos on it which is kind of cool so you can take that around with you has a ten-hour battery life it comes with Seagate's own completely upgraded app and the one for the eye I keep forgetting one it's called the one for the gold flex satellite was actually not bad but the wireless plus adds a different form of UI so it allows you to not only browse by folder structure but also to browse with media thumbnails and things like that it also adds uploading so now you can backup full-size pictures or videos or whatever else from your iOS Android or Kindle Fire device this is not either of any of those things this is a Windows device but there you go so you can instead of you know being forced to downsample something when you email to yourself you can connect up to three devices to it at a time streaming in HD or up to eight devices at a time if you're just looking at photos or or browsing it or doing whatever else it is airplay compatible which I personally think is one of the coolest things about it because if you have an Apple TV or whatever else you can actually beam thing x' to your big screen using this little guy and it is DLNA compliant as well so we're actually going to have some more coverage of this on the tech quickie Channel upcoming where we sort of dive into a bit more in depth but I think that pretty much wraps up for unboxing thank you for checking out this unboxing your first look at the wireless plus from Seagate don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos