Thermaltake BlacX 5G USB3.0 UASP External Drive Dock Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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960 words · ~4 min read
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welcome to an unboxing of a product that's actually phenomenally useful and
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popular but maybe not as glamorous as like you know the latest new video card
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or you know CPU or whatever else this is the black blackx
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black I don't know this is the thermal T
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this 5G it's a hard drive docking station supporting 2.5 in and 3 .5 in
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SATA hard drives SATA up to SATA 3.0
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that's SATA 3 6 GB per second with full
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support for USB 3 super speed it carries a three-year warranty and allows you to
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conveniently transfer large documents pictures or movies between hard drives and computers hard drive not included
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moving along we've got a bunch of other stuff which I don't think is really that
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interesting and then over here we've got a bunch of other stuff about how it's backwards compatible comes with a
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premium shielded usb3 cable supports hard drives up to two up to two
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terabytes I don't know if that's going to fly
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thermal T although we have some 3 terabyte drives coming that we can uh we
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can check out soon and maybe it's just one of those things where when the packaging was done like 2 terab drives
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were as big as they got you run into that a lot actually with Nas's where
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they'll say supports up to 12 terab of
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storage when the reality of it is it was just because there wasn't anything
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bigger than you know a 3 TB drive when that Nas was um originally
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created and something else will work just fine so you actually get a fair
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amount of stuff oh this is cool check this out let's find an SSD to like put
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it in that's like so balling out so you can
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be all like oh it's smart look at this okay so there's ventilation holes on the
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back and then there's a label reader on the front and when you have a hard drive
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as opposed to an SSD the label positioning will be somewhat more
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favorable aha here we go let's do a hard drive instead of an
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SSD okay so you'll be able to see valuable
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information like the capacity bam just
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like that okay so it comes one of those
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for a 2 and 1/2 in and it's also Rubber and like you know shock resistant not
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that I'm going to slam the drive too hard on the table there the SSD shock
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resistant and uh comes with a sleeve for a 3 and half inch Drive which also
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doubles as an oven mitt please do not use this item as an
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oven mitt you know disclaimer voice right um comes with a USB
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A2B cable that's a USB 31 so you can see
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the extra pins there and the extra pins deeper inside there comes with a power
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adapter doesn't come with an SSD or a hard drive according to the Box product
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warranty policy okay cool um
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instructions which is basically like connect the things and then plug the
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thing in and then like creating a partition okay and the black unit itself
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so so the reason we have one of these is because we have an upcoming video about
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uasp so I don't know if you guys remember this but ASUS current
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generation motherboard support uasp which is an accelerated method of usb3
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transfer so it's a different protocol than the standard usb3 protocol that
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allows it to be faster so we're going to
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take a high-end SSD we're going to plug it into this enclosure which uses U USB
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3 over uasp and we're going to see just
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how much faster uasp is than the standard usb3 transfer rates so we're
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going to use the same ASUS motherboard to test both transfer speeds and we are
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going to just turn uasp on and off in AI
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Suite in order to find the difference so
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the unit itself is pretty straightforward there's a like power button it's a toggle switch so you can
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conveniently easily tell if it's on or off there's this guy which basically is
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just allowing you to easily position a 2 and 1/2 in drive or you can take that
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out and I don't think I have any hard drives lying around actually I've gone
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almost completely SSD in like every part
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of my life so I I no longer um yeah I no
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longer believe in like 3 and a half inch hard drives so
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uh there you go but if you had a hard drive you would be able to plug it in
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here I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing
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and first look at the black X 5G maybe someone can correct me on how to say
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that I mean you guys do love correcting me when I'm saying things whether it's
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Pro cess or ASUS incidentally both of which are correct especially ASUS but uh
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don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos so slick was like oh I
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don't see the point of those rubber things cuz anyone clumsy enough to you know bump their drive against something
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probably wouldn't bother to like put this thing on in the first place so this
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is just a warning out there for everyone if you need to keep your data practice
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safe data storage use rubbers