{"video_id":"Xuu7Nw5vSkM","title":"Acomdata Samba eSATA USB 1394 3.5\" SATA Hard Drive Enclosure Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2011-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":312,"segments":[{"start_s":0.719,"end_s":9.44,"text":"so this is another leadup to an upcoming episode of NCIX Tech tips where we'll be","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.92,"end_s":12.36,"text":"looking at uh USB 3.0 versus USB 2.0","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.44,"end_s":17.56,"text":"which is here versus firewire versus ESAT so the whole point of this is to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.719,"end_s":21.64,"text":"get myself a couple of uh identical enclosures other than the interface to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.88,"end_s":26.0,"text":"the hard drive get myself a couple of identical hard drives and then a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.56,"end_s":30.64,"text":"motherboard 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features all of these different interfaces so that I can do an Apples to Apples comparison and show you just how much speed difference there actually is between all of these different interfaces if you are you know trying to decide whether it's worth it to Spring for a new USB 3.0 hard drive enclosure and motherboard or if you want to just stick with theat or wow there's a lot of accessories with this guy so this is an Acom data enclosure and it actually has a number of different interfaces on it so this is their Samba quad and the reason it's called quad is because it has support for eSATA you see it has an included eSATA cable very nice thank you then it has uh what is this one fire wire 800 I believe okay I won't actually be testing firewire 800 unfortunately CU I don't have a FireWire 800 compatible motherboard cuz as far as I can tell there was like one ever then there's firewire 400 so we have a cable for that as well and then we have a cable for USB 2.0 so they've included all of the cables you need no matter how you're going to hook hook it up then they've also included two black screws and six other ones so two of them are small three four of them are hard drive these are hard drive screws so I don't know what the rest of them are for but we'll get into that later then we have a manual so this is uh English and French by the look of things and it shows you what to do some precautions you know don't run it in water stuff like that package content system requirements uh you can pause it and read this if you really want to okay then we have a stand for the bottom so we'll we'll show that after then we have a power cord which plugs into the back of this power brick which then plugs into the back of the hard drive so just like that it's quite a large power brick but i' I'd rather see one that is is has a dedicated cord so that it doesn't sit and take up two slots on my uh on my power bar okay so then there's our stand here is the samba quad so you can see right off the that it is full of interfaces so here's USB 2.0 here's fire wire 400 firewire 800 firewire 800 again eat and then power then we've got a power switch here as well as oh this explains what those other two black screws are for Acom data has installed only two screws and I guess that is enough to hold it in place anyway so let's have a look at the outside of the enclosure unlike the one that I looked at uh just previous to this this one has kind of a fingerprint proof matte black coating on it that I actually prefer I think that's quite nice and it's also going to sort of retain its uh new look over a lot longer period of time I think so you can see even when I leave a fingerprint it kind of Fades away that's pretty nice got their logo and everything at the front you've got kind of a grilled meshy sort of bit here this is a power switch and uh presumably uh some kind of an activity LED but I'm not 100% sure I will find out when I do my tech tips episode just going to take these screws out of the back and then uh cuz I'm going to be installing hard drives in these things shortly anyway so might as well take it apart there we go okay who it's all coming apart oh unlike the other one it's also metal inside which is uh I think a step in the right direction um rather than using like a plastic interior to mount the hard drive it uses a very similar interface to uh to mount the hard drive though you're just going to put the drive down slide it back onto the SATA interface here and then you're going to screw it in from the bottom four screws here you can see we've actually got a far more complicated PCB compared to the uh the samba USB super speed that we looked at got a couple of chips on there not sure what either of them does and I don't think it's fair to expect me to do that right on right on uh camera here anyway and then we've got the uh wires for the power switch which is here at the back and then also inside I guess I can show you the bottom where this wire is taped into place and then oh I can also show you how the uh how the stand at the bottom works so I guess you slide this in from no no what I'm guessing you do is you turn this around and then you um yeah I don't know how this works but it goes in here somehow it slides in there and then it's something to do with these holes in here so you screw it in somehow and then good things happen so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Acom data Samba quad and don't forget to check out the followup we're going to have up hopefully here I'm going to give the cameraman a Target in the next week on USB 3.0 versus 2.0 versus firewire versus EA"}