well I've been meaning to run this test for quite a while I actually unboxed
this unitech USB 3.0 um to SATA 2 adapter quite some time
ago so it comes with a power plug which I'm just going to kind of crawl into the
table here and plug into my already loaded up uh power bar there okay so you
got a power plug so that's going to provide all the necessary power okay so
now the light turns on and then I just wanted to do a quick speed test with
this thing on a motherboard that actually supports USB 3 so in this case
I'm using the p7p 55d E premium and I'm
going to go ahead and plug it into an SSD to give us the fastest possible
speed set of it so you just plug it in like that matches right up with the SATA
interface on the drive these things are so useful when you have something on a
test bench that you need to uh to pull data off of or if you're just you know
running Diagnostics on a hard drive or whatever else so I'm going to go ahead
and unplug the uh the Seagate usb3 cable I've gotten there now plug in this one
there we go so the vertex 2 is detected
already okay there we go vertex 2 yep
okay so let's get this opened up here and let's just do a quick test so
first of all why don't we do oh okay my movie is
done all right so I got my big files folder okay why don't we just do the big
files folder so I'm actually I'll do a quick read test Al though I don't know
how useful that'll be so ah cancel no no
delete get rid of it okay so I'm just going to cut this off of the drive that
I just installed and I'm going to paste it onto a Vertex 120 gig so this isn't
go going to go as fast as it probably potentially can this is only going at
about 83 megabytes per second 90 so this
is going to be pretty much capping out the vertex 120 this is the original
vertex whereas this is a vertex 2 so the difference between these drives is that
they both have excellent read speeds but the vertex 2 just wipes the floor with
the vertex one in terms of Rights so what I'm going to do is as soon as I've
got this file copied onto the desktop I'm going to go ahead and copy it back
onto my vertex 2 drive so this should
actually go quite a bit faster and we'll probably see pretty much the limits of
USB 3 here so this is going at 162 mbes
per second so that's very very fast it's a little slower now it's gone down to
128 so about 130 megab per second so
we're not even approaching the limits of the drive but this is probably the
Practical limit of what we're going to see from the NEC usb3 controller and if
you really want to know how long these tests took I guess you could just kind
of I don't know run back the video and
then you'd know so anyway there we go there's the speed test it's done now and
there we go almost most and it's done
okay so that's the unitech USB 3.0 DEA 2
adapter you know I'm kind of curious about something though let's see if it
works without the power plugged in with a 2 and 1 12 in
Drive um okay why don't I sort of give it a
chance to like try over try again here
cuz that would be an advantage that that Seagate cable from the from their
modular hard drive has if they're able to plug into an SSD without an
additional power Source okay your device is ready to use plug it in let's see if
we can run a 2 and 1/2 in drive off of this particular cable your
device is ready to use USB mass storage is what it's calling itself this time it
looks like no it cannot that's quite unfortunate but I mean the power allows
you to also potentially plug in uh much
more draw power drawing devices so here why don't we try this then since we're
on the subject of testing things I actually tested the CATE cable which is
here this one right here the one from that modular interface uh external hard
drive and that worked without external power with a an SSD but what it didn't
work with was a an optical drive so I'm
going to go ahead and plug this unitech one into a DVD drive and see if that
works when it actually has power so installing device driver
software click for status CD ROM drive
so it's working on it so it all depends on what kind of a solution you're
looking for if you want something that works without any sort of additional
cables and mus and fuss then I guess you want something like the CATE cable if
you want something that will actually work with a wider variety of uh higher
power devices it looks like this unitech cable is about to
work but we don't have evidence of it
yet there we go ready to use and let's see if it shows up in here refresh
refresh go go do it now there we go so I
can use my CD drive which I don't think I have anything installed in so there
you go that was my big test and I managed to drop my headphones thank you
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