so today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing of a USB 3.0 that is super
speed USB which is 10 times faster although they don't say 10 times faster
than what I'm going to go ahead and assume it's USB 2.0 but we won't be
making assumptions for long as a followup to this unboxing I'm actually
be going to be doing a test where I compare USB 3.0 against USB 2.0 eSATA as
well as fire wire so let's just break all the seals on here and then we'll go
around have a look at the okay first of all inside the contents we have the
samba enclosure USB 3.0 cable AC adapter check it out I have a knife today we
have a stand hard disk mounting screws and an installation guide it is
compatible with Windows 7 Vista and XP and probably stuff actually no I don't
know hard to say what the USB 3 drivers would work with I guess those are probably the only three it is compatible
with seems like any Mac um as long as
you're using OS 10.3 or later and then specifications are here well we'll have
a closer look at it oh here we go USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with USB 2.0
and USB 1.x very nice okay so we can
open up the box uh if I can open up the box sometimes it's more challenging than
other times aha there we go so there's
the enclosure but we're not going to get to that just yet the
samba kind of like a lion king oh no
that's Simba okay it doesn't stand on its
own okay take this out okay so the first thing inside we find a very bulky power
adapter Dura micro Inc so that's a 2 amp
power adapter runs at 12 volts which is what hard drives run off so that makes a
whole lot of sense I guess it doesn't really matter if it's bulky it's not
like you're going to it's not like this is a portable drive enclosure you're not going to be particularly carrying it
around then we have a USB 3.0 cable so
you can see the ends are actually quite different from a USB 2.0 cable so it's a
a very different shape but you can put a
US 2.0 cable inside this port so you see
the shape of a USB 2.0b cable here well
the USB 3.0 just has kind of like an extra doohickey on the end of
it next we have a stand oh it looked
like it was metal but it's not actually it's plastic so I guess the stand kind
of uh goes on here somehow yeah I'd have to figure out oh
oh I see you have to screw it in from the inside okay so you have to actually
take the enclosure apart to put it onto the stand but it'll it'll kind of look
like this I'm going to simulate The Experience here there we go it'll kind
of look like that so it has little ventilation actually okay hold on hold
on I'll finish up with the user's guide and then I'll show you the actual enclosure so here's the installation
guide so they show you some precautions packaging content system requirements
700 series enclosures at a glance installing a PCI Express card oh I guess
this one doesn't include that I think there are some that do though um
installing a disc connecting the drive to your computer oh threee limited warranty excellent okay so in here we've
got uh this seems to be all English so that's quite a detailed guide showing
you everything from hooking it up to your computer to installing the drive
inside it and then there is a French version as well since this is Canada and
we have French people and then we have a
uh four screws that would appear in one
size and those would be for installing the hard drive in all likelihood and
then we have more screws and I don't know what those are before but I'm guessing that great installation guide
has some details about that you can see that there are in the factory they've installed two
screws for whatever reason so maybe there are two here to to to go in the
other two spots and then the other four are for installing the drive but then
you still have two extra I don't understand it okay so then here we've
got what appears to be a might be a Kensington lock but it doesn't have the
logo and there's like nothing inside it so I'm not going to assume anything then
we have the power in US be 3.0 as well
as 2.0 and 1.1 compatible Port here and
then we have an onoff switch also at the back and then around to the uh side of
the unit you can see it's got kind of a shiny but um but brushed finish can you
see that cameraman yeah you can see that okay great and then they've got their
Acom data logo on the side I sort of showed you the bottom but the bottom has
um like an indent here where these
little uh notches will go inside and
then you can screw the screw it from the top down into the base if you would like
to have a base on it then at the front you've got some Grill holes for
ventilation and all that good stuff around on this side you see the same
thing Acom data logo as well as like kind of a nice brushed finish on it and
that is it that is the Acom data Samba
USB 3.0 Super Speed 3 and 1/2 in hard
drive enclosure yeah so the cameraman brought
up an interesting point I unboxed a uh a
hard drive enclosure without actually unboxing the box so I never actually
took it apart for you guys so here I'm just going to uh take those two random
screws out and then we'll have a look at what exactly is inside of the samba here
so first we have a little back plate thingamajiggy then we okay looks like
this is going to slide out for me
here H or not how does that oh it's SL out the
other way okay so you can see right through it now there's no rails or
anything on it so it's just fitted to the right size to just kind of go inside
all right so then inside we have a couple wires here these are for the uh
hard drive activity LED which presumably is here as well as the no that's a power
switch so where's the activity led oh no there is no activity LED unless this one
is also powered but one way or another it is a power switch that is for certain
and then okay here inside you
see uh the chipset here which is converting your USB 3.0 signal to a SATA
2 signal or vice versa and then we've also got some capacitors as well as the
leads for the power switch okay that is pretty much it
there's a it's kind of a plasticky sort of internal structure I'm guessing as
soon as you put a hard drive in there it'll have a bit more rigidity to it but
the screws are going to go in from what looks like the bottom so as soon as you
put the hard drive in you're just going to screw it in from the bottom and then
you uh would be sliding it back into this interface and then
screwing it in so yeah that's pretty straightforward so again thank you for
checking out my unboxing of the Acom data sa SATA whatever whatever it's
called okay