so today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of the unitech USB 3.0 to SATA adapter
it is super speed USB which means it's up to 10 times the performance versus
USB 2 and that means up to 180 megabytes
per second it is
um H let's just flip it over and talk
about the specs a little bit these are really useful and the reason these are
useful is because if you ever need to get data off a drive or if you ever need
to use a hard drive without actually like hooking it up properly to your
system these things can be a lifesaver and I'm at a loss right now for what
they're actually called normally I would know but basically it's just a little
adapter piece that I'm going to wait till I'm done cutting
this okay so it's a little adapter piece that you can actually just plug directly
into the back of a drive any Drive including a 2 and 1 half in hard drive 3
and 1/2 in hard drive uh SSD drive
anything you want and then you it has a little chipset inside that adapts the
data signal to something that can be used by a USB port typically now this
one is cool okay because it is USB 3.0 so the
big Advantage is that you can actually access your your internal hard drive if
you need to uh if you're a technician say for example and you carry around a
drive with all of your uh with a bunch of programs and a bunch of applications
utilities all that kind of stuff you can just plug it right into this plug it
into the uh customer system you don't actually have to have an enclosure so if
you're testing hard drives this is a great way to do it and with USB 3.0 you
can actually use the entire speed of a hard drive and actually almost the
maximum of an SSD through a USB style
connection rather than having to plug it in internally so you can see it's got a
little power LED here it has its a super
speed USB certified logo here it is SATA
2 or rather hold on let's see if it's SATA or SATA 2 because that makes a big
difference let me see huh it doesn't say
you know what though I'll be doing a uh I'll be doing a quick test on this oh oh
there we go there we go yeah SATA gen 2i 3 gabit per second so it is SATA 2 ready
as well as supporting USB 2 USB 3 and oh
supports 2 terab over hard drive so they're using a very modern chipset to
uh to adapt the USB 3.0 data to the SATA 2 data and then it also comes with a
power adapter and yeah the power adapter
plugs in here and I'm actually going to find out I will do a quick test on this
thing just to show you how fast it goes compared to having the drive plugged in
internally and I also want to find out if you can actually power a 2 and 1/2 in
drive directly from the USB 3.0 Port because USB 3.0 actually provides more
power over the port than USB 2.0 did and
then you also have the uh the optional power adapter is included just in case
you do need more power so this has
gotten kind of rambly but I'm sure that you can imagine all of the different
applications that there would be for a device like this
and I mean basically I just wanted one so I'm unboxing it because it's useful
that's it