Gadgetory

so today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing of a USB 3.0 that is super speed USB which is 10 times faster although they don't say ten times faster than what I'm gonna go ahead and assume it's USB 2.0 but we won't be making assumptions for long as a follow up to this unboxing I'm actually going to be doing a test where I compare USB 3.0 against USB 2.0 eSATA as well as firewire so let's just break all the seals on here and then we'll go around and have a look at thee ok first of all inside the contents we have the Samba enclosure USB 3.0 cable AC adapter check it out I have the knife today we have a stand hard disk mounting screws on an installation guide is compatible with Windows 7 Vista and XP and probably stuff Ashley no I don't know hard to say what the USB 3 drivers would work with I guess those are probably the only three it is compatible what seems like any Mac as long as you're using OS 10 point 3 or later and then specifications are here well we'll have a closer look at it oh here we go USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1 point X very nice ok so we can open up the box if I can open up the box sometimes it's more challenging than other times aha there we go so there's the enclosure but we're not gonna get to that just yet the samba like The Lion King no no that's Simba ok doesn't stand on its own ok so the first thing aside we find a very bulky power adapter dura micro Inc so that's a 2 amp power adapter runs at 12 volts which is what hard drives run off so that makes a whole lot of sense I guess it doesn't really matter if it's bulky it's not like you're gonna it's not like this is a portable drive enclosure you're not gonna be particularly carrying it around then we have a USB 3.0 cable so you can see the ends are actually quite different from a USB 2.0 cables so it's a very different shape but you can put a USB 2.0 cable inside this port so you see the shape of a USB 2.0 B cable here well the USB 3.0 just has kind of like an extra doohickey on the end of it next we have a stand oh it looked like it was metal but it's not actually it's plastic so I guess the stand kind of goes on here somehow yeah I'd have to figure out oh I see you have to screw it in from the inside okay so you have to actually take the enclosure apart it'll kind of look like this I'm gonna simulate the experience here there we go it'll kind of look like that so it has little ventilation users guide and then I'll show you the actual enclosure so here's the installation guide so they show you some precautions packaging content system requirements 702 enclosures at a glance installing a PCI Express card no I guess this one doesn't include that I think there are some that do though it's smelling a disconnecting the drive to your computer all three-year limited warranty excellent okay so in here we've got this seems to be all English so that's quite a detailed guide showing you everything from hooking it up to your computer to installing the drive inside it and then there is a French version as well since this is Canada and we have French people and then we have a four screws it would appear in one size and those would be for installing the hard drive in all likelihood and then we have more screws and I don't know what those are for but I'm guessing that great installation guide has some details about that you can see that there are in the factory they've installed two screws for whatever reason so maybe there are two here to go in the other two spots and then the other four are for installing the drive but then you still have two extra I don't understand it okay so then here we've got what appears to be a might be a Kensington lock but it doesn't have the logo and there's like nothing inside it so I'm not going to assume anything then we have the power in USB 3.0 as well as 2.0 and 1.1 compatible port here and then we have an on/off switch also at the back and then around to the side of the unit you can see it's got kind of a shiny but but brushed finish can you see that cameraman yeah you can see that okay great and then they've got their a comdata logo on the side I sort of showed you the bottom but the bottom has like an indent here where these little notches will go inside and then you can screw the screw it from the top down into the base if you would like to have a base on it then at the front you've got some grill holes for ventilation and all that good stuff I ran it on this side you see the same thing it comdata logo as well as like kind of a nice brushed finish on it and that is it that is the a comdata Samba USB 3.0 super speed three-and-a-half inch hard drive enclosure yeah so cameraman brought up an interesting point I unboxed a a hard drive enclosure without actually unboxing the box so I never actually took it apart for you guys so here I'm just going to take those two random screws out and then we'll have a look at what exactly is inside of the Samba here so first we have a little backplate thingamajiggy then we okay it looks like this is going to slide out from here hmm oh it slides out the other way okay so you can see right through it now there's no rails or anything on it so it's just fitted to the right size to just kind of go inside all right so then inside we have a couple wires here these are for the hard drive activity LED which presumably is here as well as the no that's a power switch so where's the activity LED I don't know there is no activity LED unless this one is also powered but one way or another it is a power switch that is for certain and then okay here inside you see the chipset here which is converting your USB 3.0 signal to a SATA 2 signal or vice versa and then we've also got some capacitors as well as the leads for the power switch okay that is pretty much it there's a it's kind of a plasticy sort of internal structure I'm guessing as soon as you put a hard drive in there it'll have a bit more rigidity to it but these screws are going to go in from what looks like the bottom so as soon as you put the hard drive in you're just going to screw it in from the bottom and then you would be sliding it back back into this interface and then screwing it in so yeah that's pretty straightforward so again thank you for checking out my unboxing of the any comdata say buddy seated whatever it's cool okay