so today on my floral couch for my video blog I'll be unboxing the thermal take
black widow or black X USB to es well
ESAT this is kind of a loose term I'm using here USB to SATA drive adapter so
this is basically a little dock that sits on your desk and you plug a hard
drive into the top of it and then you plug a USB cable into the back so it
supports 2 and 1/2 in and 3 and2 in drives it is hot swap ready it is USB
2.0 it is Windows and Mac ready and I think that pretty much covers all of the
pertinent specs so without further Ado I'm going to get my scissors here and
we're going to start opening this thing up it's kind of a neat product because
the the use for this is going to be for
people who want to Archive their data on
hard drives as it is right now hard drives are one of the cheapest per
Gigabyte storage mediums even compared to things like DVD and Blu-ray and
mm they are also quite durable like
there's nothing that can cause a hard drive to Simply lose its data over time
whereas with something like a flash drive that can happen so the first thing
we find in the box is the black X itself
so hold on let me have a look at the accessories first and I'll get to that
in just a moment so please read first you've got a little um user's guide as
well as a little manual thingamajiggy here that basically gives you an
introduction to the unit itself okay and then they have how to set up
the software how to partition your drive on Windows that's a good thing to know
how to do and then further on down in the bottom oh we've got a power adapter
obviously especially for 3 and 1/2 in drives you are going to need external
power so it's just your Standard wall wart there and then we also have a USB
cable this is USB A2 B okay so it uses
the same USB plug as like a standard printer or a scanner so here's the unit
itself it's got a bit of a heft to it actually it's not it's not that light
but since it's something that would sit on your desk anyway I guess it's not
that big of a deal so on the front we've got the eject button which feels kind of
like a like an SNES like the actual feel of it is kind of it feels very solid
here is a power LED that glows around the outside here and then let's go
around to the back of the unit itself we got little rubber feet on the bottom so
it doesn't slide when it's sitting on your desk there is your power button
there's your power in as well as your USB interface and then on the top of the
drive itself also something I didn't mention before is where you'll find the
interface so right inside there that's where your SATA ports are so that's a
SATA power and then a SATA data and you can see that without this flap down it's
actually just the right spacing for a 2 and 1/2 in Notebook drive but with the
flap up the spacing is just right for a
desktop drive so when you insert the drive in it's as simple as popping it in
so that the interface makes contact and then when you want to take it out it's
totally hot swap ready so you don't have to turn off the unit or turn off your
computer you just press the button and carefully remove your drive it's that
simple so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look of the thermal
take black X