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are all your old hard drives so much
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garbage now that you have a USBC MacBook
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no they're not let's have a
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look Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about hard drives and
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USBC and specifically I want to talk
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about the fact that if you've done like
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I've done and gotten a new Macbook Pro
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with touch bar then you have just USBC
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connectors which is kind of an
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interesting experience because probably
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your external drives don't have
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USBC so does that mean they're all so
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much garbage no actually surprisingly
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the answer is that they're not but I'm
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not going to talk about using little USB
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3.0 adapters to get USBC cuz honestly
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that's pretty clumsy and you know that's
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clumsy if you've tried it what I'm going
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to talk about instead is the fact that
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more drives than you think actually have
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Tada detachable cables and that means
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that you can actually get USBC cables to
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replace them but before you I do I just
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want to point out that some drives like
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this U or this Lei um It's A Hard
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connected cable so if you actually look
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at it closely you'd see that this is
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actually almost like you know stuck in
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when they built the drive and it is a
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thunderbolt so it's a cool f F drive but
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without an adapter there really is no
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way to use this on a USBC only computer
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so unfortunately this very nice 1.5 TB
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Drive is off the menu cuz I don't want
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to use adapters I just want to have the
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work but let's look at this seate this
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seate free agent glex from Mac and I
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checked their website because it's kind
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of an interesting design I checked their
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website and Seagate does doesn't have
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any options for USBC so it goes but they
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have this two-part adapter so here's the
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drive I plug this in and now I have
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what's actually just a mini USB
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connector so I went on
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to amazon.com and for five bucks bought
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yes you guessed it a mini USB to USBC
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adapter boom 1.5 tbte Drive ready to
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this guy this is the Western Digital My
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Passport air this is a little more
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interesting cuz it has a really kind of
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funky connector here's a closeup so you
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can see this is what's called a
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usbb connector this is a hard drive
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connector and you look at that and
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you're like wow that's super custom
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there's no way but you know what five
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bucks on Amazon and I have that on one
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end and I have USBC on the other so
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again all I have to do is plug it in
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correctly and there's another terabyte
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drive and I will show you all I have to
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do is plug it in and after a moment or
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two it's online and ready to go now the
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sort of revelatory thing here is that
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you can switch between cables so if
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you're going and you're looking for hard
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drives that have USBC connectivity you
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might be actually making it a lot harder
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for yourself just look for the drive
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that you really want to double check
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that the cable that connects the drive
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to the computer is detachable because
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then odds are extremely good that just
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for a few additional dollars you can get
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the right cable so that you have it
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working with your USBC system and I
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don't want to sound like I wasn't really
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clueful but when I realized this and I
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got these cables from Amazon and like
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total investment of 12 bucks or
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something then it was just like wow look
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at this I had been thinking I just need
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to buy some new drives now that I have a
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new computer and that's goofy these are
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great drives like my passport air this
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is a great 1 taby drive you can see it's
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tiny and I want to be able to continue
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using it and now I can so the point of
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this is if you have hard drives I'm
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going to encourage you encourage you
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encourage you to click the Subscribe
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button ha snuck up on that didn't I so
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click the Subscribe button cuz I would
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like to be able to have conversations
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with you in our subsequent videos
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and I want to encourage you to go to
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Amazon.com or your favorite cable place
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or your favorite online store and get
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the cables you need to be able to hook
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your current hard drives up directly to
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your USBC computer whether it's a super
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modern PC or the latest and greatest
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from Apple with the touch bar so this is
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Dave Taylor thank you for subscribing
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thank you for watching this video and I
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will catch you in my next video
