{"video_id":"WA20nrjjxDg","title":"Vantec NexStar 3 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 3.5\" Drive Enclosure Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2010-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":303,"segments":[{"start_s":0.64,"end_s":7.04,"text":"okay so today we're going to be having a look at something that we haven't seen","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.679,"end_s":8.76,"text":"before this is the nexar 3 super speed","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.04,"end_s":15.24,"text":"external 3 and 1 halfin hard drive enclosure it doesn't include a hard","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.679,"end_s":18.24,"text":"drive but it is USB 3.0 ready so that's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.24,"end_s":23.64,"text":"super speed USB so it goes USB then high speed then super speed okay okay so the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.439,"end_s":27.64,"text":"maximum transfer rate is up to 5 gbit per 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USB","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":195.879,"end_s":204.64,"text":"3.0 at five ah sorry what is it 100 blah blah","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":201.4,"end_s":207.08,"text":"blah no no no what it does SATA run at","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":204.64,"end_s":212.64,"text":"so the new SATA is 3 gbit per second the old one is 1.5","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":209.92,"end_s":218.159,"text":"five oh no the new one is six okay okay okay yeah yeah yeah yeah so ESAT is 1.5","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":215.48,"end_s":222.04,"text":"gbit per second and this runs at 5 so EAD is completely redundant on something","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":220.159,"end_s":226.4,"text":"like this it's all about speed all right so you've got a power plug here then","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":224.4,"end_s":230.64,"text":"you've got a power switch you can see that the unit will just come apart 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front","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":255.239,"end_s":262.199,"text":"indicator LED so this little vanc logo here will light up blue okay so let's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":260.16,"end_s":266.32,"text":"have a look at sort of the unit itself overall so this just slides in on these","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":264.08,"end_s":269.479,"text":"little guides right here you can see how that fits in just like that so we'll","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":267.96,"end_s":274.08,"text":"just tuck that in there just like it was before before oops uhoh sort of like it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":272.16,"end_s":277.68,"text":"was before there we go okay so you got kind of like a black shiny somewhat","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":276.12,"end_s":281.84,"text":"brushed looking finish can you see that okay in the camera okay good and then","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":279.56,"end_s":285.88,"text":"the top is kind of rounded and then the other side You' got the same thing kind","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":283.44,"end_s":290.84,"text":"of a nice shiny uh nice shiny brushed finish on the metal there and the bottom","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":288.039,"end_s":295.08,"text":"looks like that all right front it's got Chrome accents and whatnot so I think","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":293.0,"end_s":300.4,"text":"that pretty much concludes it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":297.28,"end_s":304.759,"text":"look here at the nextar 3 super speed","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":300.4,"end_s":304.759,"text":"black USB 3 hard drive","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"okay so today we're going to be having a look at something that we haven't seen before this is the nexar 3 super speed external 3 and 1 halfin hard drive enclosure it doesn't include a hard drive but it is USB 3.0 ready so that's super speed USB so it goes USB then high speed then super speed okay okay so the maximum transfer rate is up to 5 gbit per second let me start out by saying that is completely unnecessary there's no single hard drive these days that it's going to take advant of that transfer rate but that's not to say that USB 3.0 transfer rates are U totally unnecessary because what you could have potentially is a hard drive enclosure that contains you know four USB or sorry four USB four hard drives and you can read and write to all of them at the same time say for example in like a raid zero or something like that so then you'd really need that extra speed okay so basically USB 3.0 is about let me think so it's about three times faster than e sat which is in turn about three times faster than USB 1.1 I believe let me just think so 480 megabit per second is USB 2 did I say 1.1 wow I'm getting very confused here why don't I just read off the box to make life simpler for myself okay so it's backwards compatible with USB 2.0 or 1.1 it's hot swappable so you can plug in play without rebooting which would be pretty typical of a USB anything device okay so maximum transfer rates ah here we go so they give us the sus spec so the maximum transfer rates are up to 480 megabit per second which means that almost any hard drive these days is going to be bottlenecked by USB 2.0 however USB 3.0 at 5 gbits per second is going to be more than enough for any modern hard drive so it means that you are getting the full transfer speed out of your hard drive regardless of how fast it is so it includes a USB 3.0 cable all right so you can see that the they've got like a standard you recognize this one connector and then this one is a USB 3 this is a new USB 3.0 standard so that's going to go into the back of the external drive then you have some oh he's going to look at that somewhere he couldn't see it well enough before oh there you go okay yeah that's good all right and then we've got some mounting screws okay so these two black ones go at the back of the unit to install the uh the hard drive cage and then these four for attaching the hard drive to the sled okay instruction manual I just told you everything you pretty much need to know about how to uh how to use it here's a little stand so if you want the uh if you want the enclosure to sit on your desk like this then this is the little stand for it to sit in okay so that's pretty straightforward as well and then next this is going to be the power adapter which looks exactly like it did for the old nexar 2 or nextar maybe it is a nextar 3 but the old USB 2.0 eada one I have one of these it's a great little enclosure actually I've had it for years and it still looks it even still looks all shiny they've managed to do a shiny finish that does doesn't attract fingerprints too badly so it looks like the new one the Super Speed nexar 3 they've obviously dropped the eata interface because eata at 150 megabit per second is not nearly as fast as USB 3.0 at five ah sorry what is it 100 blah blah blah no no no what it does SATA run at so the new SATA is 3 gbit per second the old one is 1.5 five oh no the new one is six okay okay okay yeah yeah yeah yeah so ESAT is 1.5 gbit per second and this runs at 5 so EAD is completely redundant on something like this it's all about speed all right so you've got a power plug here then you've got a power switch you can see that the unit will just come apart just like that okay so this is the sled I was talking about so you plug the hard drive in this way it seems to have mounting holes for you to mount it on the bottom so you plug in your four or you screw in your four screws there all right so let me see this little header right here this guy right there you just plug in this one it goes in either way it actually totally doesn't matter you just install it one of the two ways that it fits on there and then that's going to power the front indicator LED so this little vanc logo here will light up blue okay so let's have a look at sort of the unit itself overall so this just slides in on these little guides right here you can see how that fits in just like that so we'll just tuck that in there just like it was before before oops uhoh sort of like it was before there we go okay so you got kind of like a black shiny somewhat brushed looking finish can you see that okay in the camera okay good and then the top is kind of rounded and then the other side You' got the same thing kind of a nice shiny uh nice shiny brushed finish on the metal there and the bottom looks like that all right front it's got Chrome accents and whatnot so I think that pretty much concludes it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look here at the nextar 3 super speed black USB 3 hard drive"}