Adata AS102 Series USB3.0 Flash Thumb Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of the adata
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as102 series of USB flash drives this is
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a USB 3 drive that is actually priced
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not that badly compared to even USB 2 drives so it's USB 3 ready 2.0 Backward
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Compatible that is important although they are all in theory USB 2.0 backwards
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compatible I can tell you guys right now the usb3 drive that I normally use
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doesn't necessarily work in some scenarios such as for example booting to
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it from a usb2 port or a USB 3 port on an older motherboard so there you go if
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they're saying it's USB 2.0 Backward Compatible I hope it also includes all
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of that compatibility as well boosted speeds up to 100 megabytes per second
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read and oh they don't actually rate the
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uh oh okay oh this is the pro version of the drive so there's a non-pro drive pro
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version of the drive that's not quite as fast so this is 45% faster is what
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they're saying supports USB 3 specification with compatible with USB
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2.0 hot plug and play and it comes with free Norton Internet Security uh 60-day
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version Let pull to open let's see how easy their packaging is to open I am
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sort of the expert on how easy packaging is to
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open okay it was easy to open but not necessarily easy to open cleanly there
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we go oh even is that even more languages inside or something what is
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all this warranty statement oh that's kind of cool okay exclusive downloads at
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adata dasg group.com or no adata
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dash oh well um hm oh I understand so it's supposed
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to rip along the perforations and then you're supposed to
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fold it
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down so be careful when you're opening it up otherwise you might not be able to
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read all of the packaging inside it does have a lifetime warranty if you register
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online and then there's all this stuff which
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oops okay well we'll see if it still works after being dropped it probably
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does online customer service aha adgroup
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docomo download there you go so that's where you go so the casing is actually
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fairly nice it's made of metal which is nice for uh for a USB drive these days
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it's hard to find ones that are actually you know have some design that go into
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them because they've become a bit of a commodity item it's got the little Pro
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thing going on s102 16 gig USB 3 like I
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said metal the cap is plastic though and the back is plastic that probably makes
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them fit together a little bit better and then it is held on by the uh little
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indents here well let's go ahead and fire it up let's see how long it takes
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to copy a file to it oh wait my USB 3 test bench isn't plugged
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in h okay give me a
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minute so here we go guys we've got about one gig of data here and we are
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going to copy it over to our test folder
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and see how long it takes to copy a gig of data I think that's unrealistic but
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uh yeah we're going to find out how long it actually takes I think it's probably
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catching up to where it thinks it is right
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now I'll let you guys do the
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math there you go that's not too bad
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that's nothing don't worry about that un
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related oh there we go kind of picked up
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at the end there guys I was starting to get pretty disappointed so thank you for
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