Antec Easy SATA Hot Swap Hard Drive Bay Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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okay so while for this episode I am down one cameraman I am up one remote so I
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will actually be able to control the camera with this remote check it out I
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can even do this oo very fancy anyway today I'm going to
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be unboxing and having a quick look at the antech easy SATA so what the easy
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SATA is is it's a 5 and 1/4 inch Drive Bay adapter and what you can do is you
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can take your 5 and a qu inch Drive Bay and turn it into a 3 and 1/2 inch hot
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swap Bay that uses guess which interface
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SATA and what an Tech's claiming is also
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that it's very very easy to use and ow
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ow the packaging has shattered so we're
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off to a bit of a rough start here ow
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okay anyway let's have a look at what is included as far as accessories so here
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when you open up the box you find the easy SATA nestled into the packaging
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there okay so from the front it looks kind of like
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that yeah it's kind of hard to do this actually without a cameraman but what
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can you do so there is no documentation
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in here whatsoever all we have inside is
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a little a little piece of tape holding eight screws down so these are 5 and 1/4
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in Bay screws and then we have the easy s itself so I guess the assumption is
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that this thing is so easy that you don't even need any instructions on how
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to use it so why don't we have a look at the side of the unit first so there is
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your four mounting holes on either side
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you're going to use that to mount it in a 5 and 1/4 in Drive Bay okay so let's
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have a look at the back so first of all we have the SATA power and SATA data
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connector and then if we flip it around just a little bit for you here you can
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see on the inside that is where the drive is actually going to interface
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with but we also have another SATA cable at the back so this one comes out of
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this one side here and then terminates into a regular SATA cable that can plug
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into your motherboard so that is actually for an additional ESAT port on
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the front of the unit so you can see the ESAT Port right here and you can see the
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little door for a hard drive right there here's your eject button so basically
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what antec wants you to do is be able to add hot swap Bays to the front of your
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computer case without any prior support and without any hassle so as long as
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your motherboard supports ahci which is native SATA operation then you should be
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able to even while your computer's on pop in or pull out a hard drive and have
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instant access access to your archived data because the reality of it is right
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now hard drives are cheaper than Blu-ray and because they're so big and so cheap
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these days they're way more practical than trying to back up your data on DVDs
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so thank you for checking out my video blog and let's see if this thing actually works