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