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