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hey dave taylor here again and this time
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i'm looking at the law see rugged
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Thunderbolt Drive now let's see you're
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like who who are these people let's see
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is the premium brand of Seagate so
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between them they have made zillions of
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hard drives in fact they probably have
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the hard drive that's inside your
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computer is probably came from one of
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those guys so they have lots and lots of
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experience and Thunderbolt is a rockin
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connection so if you have one of the
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very latest generation of computers
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it'll support Thunderbolt and this will
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be really screaming fast you can see
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here on this graph the relative
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performance of the different buses and
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thunderbolt blows everything else out of
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the water now here's one of the things
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that's really cool as you're thinking
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it's kind of orangey and it's kind of
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squishy but that's because it's shock
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and water and dust resistant which is
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really nice and what I really like about
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it is it has a built in thunderbolt
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connector so this is literally all I
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need and since its bus powered as they
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say all you have to do is plug it into
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your computer and it's running and
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you're rockin and so I use this actual
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drive for rendering videos and for
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working on the videos like this very
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video review itself so this is actually
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something where I'm a big fan of this
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and it just it's super fast so I mean I
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can literally see my computer running
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faster simply because I'm using this
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even as an external drive it's that fast
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and if you don't have Thunderbolt it's
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okay because it comes with a USB 3
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connector and cable and here's the end
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of the USB 3 it's a little bit different
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but that's the end that goes into the
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drive and then the other end just looks
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like a regular USB and USB is designed
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to be backwards compatible so if you
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only have a USB 2.0 on your device
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that's okay you can plug this in and
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you'll still get the benefit of the
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drive it just won't be quite as
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screaming fast as if you were using it
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with Thunderbolt oh well let's see it
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comes with as do all modern drives it
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comes with lots of software so there's
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backup software for Mac and PC there's
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for if you want to make sure that you
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keep your drive safe oh and the design
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itself this crazy orange bubble design
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whatever you want to call it it's like a
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nerf hard drive designed by a guy named
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Neil Putin I don't know who he is but
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Neil it's an interesting design I don't
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actually I mean it turns out actually I
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don't particularly like it but if you
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really really don't like it you can
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actually take the drive out of this
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orange thing and then it's not really
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very attractive and it doesn't look like
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it's designed to be carried by itself
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but if you really hate the little shock
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bumper or you're just using it on your
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desk you can do that it's up to you I'm
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not going to recommend for or against I
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will say since I do move around with it
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I do actually keep it in its little
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safety bumper I figure it's I don't know
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and let's see so let's talk about price
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because we covered everything else so
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this is a one terabyte Thunderbolt Drive
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and it runs 179 bucks from lesea calm if
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you want to double that for two
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terabytes it runs 249 now where the
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prices get really crazy is if you say oh
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I don't want a traditional hard drive I
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want to have an SSD I want to have one
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where it's really all like memory chips
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because it is definitely faster to have
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that and then there's no moving parts
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but boy do you jump up in price so a 500
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gig SSD rugged Thunderbolt from lesea
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runs you 479 bucks and if you say I want
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a terabyte I don't care I just won the
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then it's good that you just won the
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lottery because a one terabyte SSD with
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Thunderbolt is going to run you about
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789 bucks so $800 but then again think
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how many floppy disks that would have
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been back in the day anyway I'll have to
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reassemble this because I really do use
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it every single day and I really really
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like it and the Thunderbolt is so fast
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it's just such a rockin connector if you
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can possibly use it there is no reason
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in the world to be using any other
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connection so this is Dave Taylor this
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rugged thunderbolt and you can learn
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more the sea calm and I'll catch you in
