5 Weird Products that NO ONE Asked For
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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FreshBooks comm slash line of CES and speaking of custom-built for the way you
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want to work we're back at Silverstone checking out the top five crazy things
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that we found at their booth that are actually really useful and we're gonna start off with the MSO nine and the MSO
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nine mini these are MDOT 2 SATA
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enclosures but not just that they also have a USB 3.1 type-a connector on the
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edge so to make it yourself you just remove the four screws on the back
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that's on the side with the switch on it for your USB type a connector open it up
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flip it over and then inside the standard MSO nine you can fit at 22:40
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to a twenty two sixty or a 20 to 80 sized MDOT to SATA drive and in the
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smaller MSO nine mini you can fit a twenty to forty two then just close it
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back up and you have your own awesome super fast ten gigabit per second flash
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drive that you can then convert later on to be a system drive or whatever else
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you want moving on we've got probably my favorite thing here and it's the third
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time that's been released and it's still probably my favorite thing here just because it's so kind of hilariously
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awesome and that's their remote starter kit for your PC this time it has a
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speaker mounted to it so when you press the power button or reset button from
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across the room you have to hear that your computer turned on it doesn't seem
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like immediately you might need that functionality but when you can't see the
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computer necessarily it's actually pretty freaking cool when you plug it
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into your motherboard for the power switch and reset switch headers it also
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has break offs I don't know an Escalade what to call them pass throughs that you
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can plug your standard power button and reset button on your case into so don't
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lose any of that functionality either I think this is actually pretty damn cool
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and it plugs in through the PCIe 1x slot on your motherboard next up we've just
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got an expansion card that you can mount an NVMe m2 SSD into which is really cool
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because it's so small if you notice there's no even mounting bracket to go
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on the outside of the case it's also really short if you have a tiny little
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builds that you need to make and you do have an available 16x slot you can drop
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this in here get another drive don't have to worry about clearance on top of
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it and don't have to worry about mounting it on the back pretty cool then
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we have there tpo 2 m2 link it for MDOT two SSDs I know a lot
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of this stuff as MDOT to based this I'm mainly calling out just because it's
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kind of funny they added an actual physical heat sink into the box because
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people were too sketched out with their previous version that actually worked
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better but don't worry that's all previous stuff is still included in here
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if you've been following the news on MDOT - cooling stuff these heat sinks
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that go on the top of them don't accomplish a ton but people love them
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because they look like they'll accomplish a ton it still has the
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thermal pad which can thermally conduct from the MDOT 2 drives controller mainly
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down into a mainboard or whatever it's actually mounted on which is actually
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far more effective so you've got the peace of mind over the piece of metal
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that goes on top and you've got the effectiveness of a thermal pad that goes on the bottom and then just in case your
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love for em to just absolutely cannot be satiated we have another way to mount
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them all the way from 20 to 40 to 220 to 110 those really long m2 drives this
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will convert them to SATA so you can have 4 SATA plugs only takes one SATA
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power which is actually pretty cool as well and you can have way more m2 in
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your system just in case you've populated all the m2 on your board and
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you've populated all the PCIe lanes you can possibly plug m2 into you've done
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everything else and you still want more drives you can have four of them mounted
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into a three and a half inch drive bay and speaking of MDOT - and other things
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