welcome to an unboxing of the zman external hard drive case and Virtual
Drive that actually kind of reminds me of like one of my favorite games on the
Sega Genesis which was virtual eraser
you know when it turns on it says that VR love that game anyway this is the ZM
ve300 usb3 super speed One Touch backup
and safe remove oh come on if it doesn't have safe removal then it's probably not
usb3 compliant but one touch backup is useful easy menu navigation using jog
shuttle okay cool USB 3 Max 5 gbit per
second what else we got going on here we got a lot of different languages for
where's the English oh I found it okay virtual OD that's cool virtu virtual
Optical dis drive so what that means is you can actually to my understanding
Mount is or load isos onto this
particular external drive and run them over USB 3 without any optical drive
whatsoever so you can take your whole library of whether it's like you know
Tech isos or whatever else you turn the whole this drive into a virtual USB CD
ROM drive that contains all of the discs that you need that sounds like actually
kind of magical very cool uh one touch
backup and safe removal convenient and intuitive menus 2 and 1 half inch SATA 1
or two hard drive compatible although you could probably throw a SATA 3 Drive
in there if you really want to it just wouldn't be running at that speed
aluminum body for enhanced Cooling and elegant design plug- Inplay easy installation Sub Compact design
convenient travel pouch provided well all right
then oo that's actually very nice looking okay we'll get to that
after software download the latest from Zan USB 3 C cable download the latest
from Zalman no you better use this there you
go so there's all your USB 3 pins and there's all your other more different
USB 3 pins remember USB 3 is backwards compatible so if you do want to plug in
a USB 2 cable you'll just have to find one of these guys so that's what's that
a micro USB I think it's micro USB and
then it'll run in USB 2 includes a soft feeling but hard on
the outside Zalman carrying
case which you can still see oh oh that's neat so you can still access the
interface and the power button and the activity LED as well as the LCD readout
but it's protected neat quick guide
showing you Pres some stuff whoops that's not what I meant to
do okay then um shows you how to install
the backup utility
um to use ah here this is what I really want to know so here's the jog switch
previous file select file to the next file
okay you can switch between odd mode and hard drive mode okay here's what I want
to know to use the virtual optical disc drive is file must be located in theore
ISO folder of the device enter into or free from menu if jog switch is pressed
for 3 seconds the back cool so that's how to use it that's
fairly straightforward actually look at this they include a screwdriver and screws to install the drive inside their
ve300 enclosure so let's have a look at the enclosure itself because for some
people these enclosures are you know hey they should look nice and I actually
100% agree with that if I'm going to carry around my hard drive and have it
sit somewhere it might as well be one that looks kind of decent especially
because the cost difference between um
like an inexpense let's you know what I'm just going to say it between a cheap
hard drive enclosure and a nice one actually isn't that
much it says remove film but I can't they're serious about protecting
this LCD there we go very nice very shiny so there's your LCD activity LED
there's your uh jog switch which can be pressed or toggled either these
directions there's your uh oh sorry that's a backup button not a power
button it's just powered if it's powered and there's your usb3 interface which
goes a little something like that ha the
brushed finish is all on the top you got your zman logo zman cool Innovations can
you see the brushed of it ah there you go very nice the bottom has also got the
brushed going on and in terms of
disassembling the enclosure a nice look at this
hold on how did I do that oh you just kind of carefully you know what let's
install a drive because I think this is going to be so quick that we can do it
in real time where's my
drive see I can never find a drive
looking for I got okay so here we go I have a 2 and
1/2 inch drive that I'm going to install in
here oh no I'm just kidding guys this
this is a Seagate drive from uh from a dead external uh hard drive it's a one
tbte so that's why it's like thicker than a standard 2 and 1 half in Drive no
no I found a real drive so this is a momentus XT 750 gig and the reason why I
might use a momentus XT in an external enclosure is say for example I ran steam
off an external drive which by the way I do um that allows the momentus XT to use
its caching features to cach whatever
games or applications that I most frequently use onto the built-in SSD so
whatever files come up an awful lot that is the benefit of having SSD
caching on an external drive and not just on a boot drive so I may have put
this in the wrong way but here basically you know what okay I might not put in all the screws but here's basically what
you do you just peel up the uh the trim here and then you install the screws and
then put the trim back so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look
at the Zalman cool Innovations now I forget what it's called see the model
numbers are tough for these things v300 don't forget to subscribe to lus
Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos sorry guys this is
so easy I could have done it in real time you just plunk in the drive throw
this in and then the screw is actually
for oh now I misplaced the screwdriver oh there it is the screw actually just
goes in here which locks in the top piece which
locks the drive in place very cool