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so today on my floral couch for my video blog I'll be unboxing the thermal take

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black widow or black X USB to es well

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ESAT this is kind of a loose term I'm using here USB to SATA drive adapter so

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this is basically a little dock that sits on your desk and you plug a hard

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drive into the top of it and then you plug a USB cable into the back so it

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supports 2 and 1/2 in and 3 and2 in drives it is hot swap ready it is USB

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2.0 it is Windows and Mac ready and I think that pretty much covers all of the

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pertinent specs so without further Ado I'm going to get my scissors here and

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we're going to start opening this thing up it's kind of a neat product because

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the the use for this is going to be for

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people who want to Archive their data on

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hard drives as it is right now hard drives are one of the cheapest per

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Gigabyte storage mediums even compared to things like DVD and Blu-ray and

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mm they are also quite durable like

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there's nothing that can cause a hard drive to Simply lose its data over time

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whereas with something like a flash drive that can happen so the first thing

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we find in the box is the black X itself

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so hold on let me have a look at the accessories first and I'll get to that

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in just a moment so please read first you've got a little um user's guide as

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well as a little manual thingamajiggy here that basically gives you an

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introduction to the unit itself okay and then they have how to set up

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the software how to partition your drive on Windows that's a good thing to know

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how to do and then further on down in the bottom oh we've got a power adapter

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obviously especially for 3 and 1/2 in drives you are going to need external

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power so it's just your Standard wall wart there and then we also have a USB

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cable this is USB A2 B okay so it uses

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the same USB plug as like a standard printer or a scanner so here's the unit

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itself it's got a bit of a heft to it actually it's not it's not that light

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but since it's something that would sit on your desk anyway I guess it's not

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that big of a deal so on the front we've got the eject button which feels kind of

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like a like an SNES like the actual feel of it is kind of it feels very solid

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here is a power LED that glows around the outside here and then let's go

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around to the back of the unit itself we got little rubber feet on the bottom so

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it doesn't slide when it's sitting on your desk there is your power button

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there's your power in as well as your USB interface and then on the top of the

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drive itself also something I didn't mention before is where you'll find the

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interface so right inside there that's where your SATA ports are so that's a

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SATA power and then a SATA data and you can see that without this flap down it's

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actually just the right spacing for a 2 and 1/2 in Notebook drive but with the

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flap up the spacing is just right for a

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desktop drive so when you insert the drive in it's as simple as popping it in

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so that the interface makes contact and then when you want to take it out it's

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totally hot swap ready so you don't have to turn off the unit or turn off your

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computer you just press the button and carefully remove your drive it's that

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simple so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look of the thermal

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take black X