{"video_id":"1NwySCXtb-M","title":"Thermaltake BlacX 5G USB3.0 UASP External Drive Dock Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":297,"segments":[{"start_s":7.359,"end_s":13.759,"text":"welcome to an unboxing of a product that's actually phenomenally useful and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.2,"end_s":19.199,"text":"popular but maybe not as glamorous as like you know the latest new video card","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.32,"end_s":25.8,"text":"or you know CPU or whatever else this is the black blackx","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.64,"end_s":28.0,"text":"black I don't know this is the thermal T","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":25.8,"end_s":33.559,"text":"this 5G it's a hard drive docking station supporting 2.5 in and 3 .5 in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":30.439,"end_s":36.6,"text":"SATA hard drives SATA up to SATA 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practice","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":293.0,"end_s":298.36,"text":"safe data storage use rubbers","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome to an unboxing of a product that's actually phenomenally useful and popular but maybe not as glamorous as like you know the latest new video card or you know CPU or whatever else this is the black blackx black I don't know this is the thermal T this 5G it's a hard drive docking station supporting 2.5 in and 3 .5 in SATA hard drives SATA up to SATA 3.0 that's SATA 3 6 GB per second with full support for USB 3 super speed it carries a three-year warranty and allows you to conveniently transfer large documents pictures or movies between hard drives and computers hard drive not included moving along we've got a bunch of other stuff which I don't think is really that interesting and then over here we've got a bunch of other stuff about how it's backwards compatible comes with a premium shielded usb3 cable supports hard drives up to two up to two terabytes I don't know if that's going to fly thermal T although we have some 3 terabyte drives coming that we can uh we can check out soon and maybe it's just one of those things where when the packaging was done like 2 terab drives were as big as they got you run into that a lot actually with Nas's where they'll say supports up to 12 terab of storage when the reality of it is it was just because there wasn't anything bigger than you know a 3 TB drive when that Nas was um originally created and something else will work just fine so you actually get a fair amount of stuff oh this is cool check this out let's find an SSD to like put it in that's like so balling out so you can be all like oh it's smart look at this okay so there's ventilation holes on the back and then there's a label reader on the front and when you have a hard drive as opposed to an SSD the label positioning will be somewhat more favorable aha here we go let's do a hard drive instead of an SSD okay so you'll be able to see valuable information like the capacity bam just like that okay so it comes one of those for a 2 and 1/2 in and it's also Rubber and like you know shock resistant not that I'm going to slam the drive too hard on the table there the SSD shock resistant and uh comes with a sleeve for a 3 and half inch Drive which also doubles as an oven mitt please do not use this item as an oven mitt you know disclaimer voice right um comes with a USB A2B cable that's a USB 31 so you can see the extra pins there and the extra pins deeper inside there comes with a power adapter doesn't come with an SSD or a hard drive according to the Box product warranty policy okay cool um instructions which is basically like connect the things and then plug the thing in and then like creating a partition okay and the black unit itself so so the reason we have one of these is because we have an upcoming video about uasp so I don't know if you guys remember this but ASUS current generation motherboard support uasp which is an accelerated method of usb3 transfer so it's a different protocol than the standard usb3 protocol that allows it to be faster so we're going to take a high-end SSD we're going to plug it into this enclosure which uses U USB 3 over uasp and we're going to see just how much faster uasp is than the standard usb3 transfer rates so we're going to use the same ASUS motherboard to test both transfer speeds and we are going to just turn uasp on and off in AI Suite in order to find the difference so the unit itself is pretty straightforward there's a like power button it's a toggle switch so you can conveniently easily tell if it's on or off there's this guy which basically is just allowing you to easily position a 2 and 1/2 in drive or you can take that out and I don't think I have any hard drives lying around actually I've gone almost completely SSD in like every part of my life so I I no longer um yeah I no longer believe in like 3 and a half inch hard drives so uh there you go but if you had a hard drive you would be able to plug it in here I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the black X 5G maybe someone can correct me on how to say that I mean you guys do love correcting me when I'm saying things whether it's Pro cess or ASUS incidentally both of which are correct especially ASUS but uh don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos so slick was like oh I don't see the point of those rubber things cuz anyone clumsy enough to you know bump their drive against something probably wouldn't bother to like put this thing on in the first place so this is just a warning out there for everyone if you need to keep your data practice safe data storage use rubbers"}