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so today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of the unitech USB 3.0 to SATA adapter

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it is super speed USB which means it's up to 10 times the performance versus

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USB 2 and that means up to 180 megabytes

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per second it is

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um H let's just flip it over and talk

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about the specs a little bit these are really useful and the reason these are

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useful is because if you ever need to get data off a drive or if you ever need

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to use a hard drive without actually like hooking it up properly to your

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system these things can be a lifesaver and I'm at a loss right now for what

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they're actually called normally I would know but basically it's just a little

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adapter piece that I'm going to wait till I'm done cutting

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this okay so it's a little adapter piece that you can actually just plug directly

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into the back of a drive any Drive including a 2 and 1 half in hard drive 3

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and 1/2 in hard drive uh SSD drive

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anything you want and then you it has a little chipset inside that adapts the

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data signal to something that can be used by a USB port typically now this

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one is cool okay because it is USB 3.0 so the

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big Advantage is that you can actually access your your internal hard drive if

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you need to uh if you're a technician say for example and you carry around a

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drive with all of your uh with a bunch of programs and a bunch of applications

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utilities all that kind of stuff you can just plug it right into this plug it

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into the uh customer system you don't actually have to have an enclosure so if

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you're testing hard drives this is a great way to do it and with USB 3.0 you

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can actually use the entire speed of a hard drive and actually almost the

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maximum of an SSD through a USB style

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connection rather than having to plug it in internally so you can see it's got a

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little power LED here it has its a super

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speed USB certified logo here it is SATA

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2 or rather hold on let's see if it's SATA or SATA 2 because that makes a big

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difference let me see huh it doesn't say

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you know what though I'll be doing a uh I'll be doing a quick test on this oh oh

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there we go there we go yeah SATA gen 2i 3 gabit per second so it is SATA 2 ready

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as well as supporting USB 2 USB 3 and oh

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supports 2 terab over hard drive so they're using a very modern chipset to

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uh to adapt the USB 3.0 data to the SATA 2 data and then it also comes with a

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power adapter and yeah the power adapter

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plugs in here and I'm actually going to find out I will do a quick test on this

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thing just to show you how fast it goes compared to having the drive plugged in

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internally and I also want to find out if you can actually power a 2 and 1/2 in

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drive directly from the USB 3.0 Port because USB 3.0 actually provides more

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power over the port than USB 2.0 did and

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then you also have the uh the optional power adapter is included just in case

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you do need more power so this has

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gotten kind of rambly but I'm sure that you can imagine all of the different

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applications that there would be for a device like this

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and I mean basically I just wanted one so I'm unboxing it because it's useful

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that's it