Zalman ZM-VE300 External 2.5IN HDD Case & Virtual Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,190 words · ~5 min read
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welcome to an unboxing of the zman external hard drive case and Virtual
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Drive that actually kind of reminds me of like one of my favorite games on the
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Sega Genesis which was virtual eraser
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you know when it turns on it says that VR love that game anyway this is the ZM
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ve300 usb3 super speed One Touch backup
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and safe remove oh come on if it doesn't have safe removal then it's probably not
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usb3 compliant but one touch backup is useful easy menu navigation using jog
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shuttle okay cool USB 3 Max 5 gbit per
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second what else we got going on here we got a lot of different languages for
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where's the English oh I found it okay virtual OD that's cool virtu virtual
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Optical dis drive so what that means is you can actually to my understanding
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Mount is or load isos onto this
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particular external drive and run them over USB 3 without any optical drive
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whatsoever so you can take your whole library of whether it's like you know
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Tech isos or whatever else you turn the whole this drive into a virtual USB CD
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ROM drive that contains all of the discs that you need that sounds like actually
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kind of magical very cool uh one touch
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backup and safe removal convenient and intuitive menus 2 and 1 half inch SATA 1
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or two hard drive compatible although you could probably throw a SATA 3 Drive
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in there if you really want to it just wouldn't be running at that speed
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aluminum body for enhanced Cooling and elegant design plug- Inplay easy installation Sub Compact design
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convenient travel pouch provided well all right
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then oo that's actually very nice looking okay we'll get to that
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after software download the latest from Zan USB 3 C cable download the latest
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from Zalman no you better use this there you
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go so there's all your USB 3 pins and there's all your other more different
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USB 3 pins remember USB 3 is backwards compatible so if you do want to plug in
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a USB 2 cable you'll just have to find one of these guys so that's what's that
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a micro USB I think it's micro USB and
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then it'll run in USB 2 includes a soft feeling but hard on
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the outside Zalman carrying
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case which you can still see oh oh that's neat so you can still access the
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interface and the power button and the activity LED as well as the LCD readout
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but it's protected neat quick guide
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showing you Pres some stuff whoops that's not what I meant to
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do okay then um shows you how to install
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the backup utility
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um to use ah here this is what I really want to know so here's the jog switch
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previous file select file to the next file
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okay you can switch between odd mode and hard drive mode okay here's what I want
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to know to use the virtual optical disc drive is file must be located in theore
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ISO folder of the device enter into or free from menu if jog switch is pressed
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for 3 seconds the back cool so that's how to use it that's
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fairly straightforward actually look at this they include a screwdriver and screws to install the drive inside their
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ve300 enclosure so let's have a look at the enclosure itself because for some
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people these enclosures are you know hey they should look nice and I actually
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100% agree with that if I'm going to carry around my hard drive and have it
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sit somewhere it might as well be one that looks kind of decent especially
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because the cost difference between um
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like an inexpense let's you know what I'm just going to say it between a cheap
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hard drive enclosure and a nice one actually isn't that
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much it says remove film but I can't they're serious about protecting
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this LCD there we go very nice very shiny so there's your LCD activity LED
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there's your uh jog switch which can be pressed or toggled either these
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directions there's your uh oh sorry that's a backup button not a power
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button it's just powered if it's powered and there's your usb3 interface which
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goes a little something like that ha the
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brushed finish is all on the top you got your zman logo zman cool Innovations can
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you see the brushed of it ah there you go very nice the bottom has also got the
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brushed going on and in terms of
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disassembling the enclosure a nice look at this
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hold on how did I do that oh you just kind of carefully you know what let's
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install a drive because I think this is going to be so quick that we can do it
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in real time where's my
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drive see I can never find a drive
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looking for I got okay so here we go I have a 2 and
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1/2 inch drive that I'm going to install in
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here oh no I'm just kidding guys this
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this is a Seagate drive from uh from a dead external uh hard drive it's a one
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tbte so that's why it's like thicker than a standard 2 and 1 half in Drive no
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no I found a real drive so this is a momentus XT 750 gig and the reason why I
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might use a momentus XT in an external enclosure is say for example I ran steam
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off an external drive which by the way I do um that allows the momentus XT to use
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its caching features to cach whatever
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games or applications that I most frequently use onto the built-in SSD so
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whatever files come up an awful lot that is the benefit of having SSD
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caching on an external drive and not just on a boot drive so I may have put
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this in the wrong way but here basically you know what okay I might not put in all the screws but here's basically what
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you do you just peel up the uh the trim here and then you install the screws and
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then put the trim back so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look
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at the Zalman cool Innovations now I forget what it's called see the model
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numbers are tough for these things v300 don't forget to subscribe to lus
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Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos sorry guys this is
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so easy I could have done it in real time you just plunk in the drive throw
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this in and then the screw is actually
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for oh now I misplaced the screwdriver oh there it is the screw actually just
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goes in here which locks in the top piece which
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locks the drive in place very cool