Silverstone SOD02 Slimline Slot Loading DVD Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Silverstone SST which stands for
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Silverstone Tech right du s o d02 this
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is an optical disc drive made by LG so
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you know if you're worried that you know it's like some kind of off-brand opticle
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drive or something not at all the reason Silverstone has this skew in their
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Arsenal is because they have a lot of really cool small form factor cases that
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require things like Slimline Optical drives or slot loading Optical drives to
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make them more elegant and to make them look better and all that kind of stuff
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but Silverstone is not actually an optical drive manufacturer so what they
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do is they Source a bunch of these from LG and then they offer them to their
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customers so that they can complete their Silverstone build experience so
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here's a quick manual and it says drive by toiba
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Samsung well those aren't all the same thing
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oh I guess it must it used to be tsha Samsung and now it's LG because this
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sticker is over top of that one oh interesting okay well there you go
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apparently they Source them from sort of wherever has a good Slimline slot
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loading Optical and then don't worry too much about it they just put a sticker on
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the box that's not that's that's fine so it
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comes with mounting screws there you go
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comes with a SATA cable oh is this one ah it comes with a
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very special SATA cable so this is one
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one of those um smaller notebook form factor SATA
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combo connectors and then that breaks out to a SATA cable that plugs into your
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motherboard and a power connector that plugs into your power supply because
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these Slimline Optical drives are intended for things like external
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enclosures and notebooks and not really intended for desktops unless you're
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talking very very small form factor desktops like the kind that we are about
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to do a build with this guy with so that's why we needed it so you basically
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go I mean there's a couple mounting holes on the sides there's mounting
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holes on the other sides there's that special connector there's the slot load
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and the eject button here which is great
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and that's oh look it is an LG right no okay yeah that's that's what we
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concluded so it's an LG multi G3 31n
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however I suspect that they that they change a fair bit and I really am
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running out of things to say thank you for checking out my next unboxing and
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first look at the ssts 0
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D2 don't forget to subscribe to line This Tech tips for more unboxings
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reviews and other computer videos and it's a DVD writer in case I didn't cover
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that before which I did not