Gadgetory

so today on my floral couch for my video blog I'll be unboxing the Thermaltake Black Widow or black X USB to eSATA well eSATA this is kind of a loose term I'm using here USB to SATA drive adapter so this is basically a little dock that sits on your desk and you plug a hard drive into the top of it and then you plug a USB cable into the back so it supports two and a half inch and three and a half inch drives it is hot-swap ready it is USB 2.0 it is Windows and Mac ready and I think that pretty much covers all of the pertinent specs so without further ado I'm gonna get my scissors here and we're gonna start opening this thing up it's kind of a neat product because did the use for this it's going to be for people who want to archive their data on hard drives as it is right now hard drives are one of the cheapest per gigabyte storage mediums even compared to things like DVD and blu-ray and they are also quite durable like there's nothing that can cause a hard drive to simply lose its data over time whereas with something like a flash drive that can happen so the first thing we find in the box is the black X itself so hold on let me have a look at the accessories first so I'll get to that in just a moment so please read first you've got a little user's guide as well as a little manual thingamajiggy here that basically gives you an introduction to the unit itself okay and then they have how to set up the software how to partition your drive on Windows that's a good thing to know how to do and then further on down in the bottom oh we've got a power adapter obviously especially for three and a half inch drives you are going to need external power so it's just your standard wall wart there and then we also have a USB cable this is USB a 2b okay so it uses the same USB plug and slickest it's not that light but since it's something that would sit on your desk anyway I guess it's not that big of a deal so on the front we've got the eject button it feels kind of like like an SNES like the actual feel of it is kind of it feels very solid here is a power LED that glows around the outside here and then let's go around to the back of the unit itself we've got little rubber feet on the bottom so it doesn't slide when it's sitting on your desk there's your power button there's your power in as well as your USB interface and then on the top of the drive itself also something I didn't mention before is where you'll find the interface so right inside there that's where your SATA ports are so that's a SATA power and then a SATA data and you can see that without this flap down it's actually just the right spacing for a tuna 1/2 inch notebook drive but with the flap up the spacing is just right for a desktop drive so when you insert the drive in it's as simple as popping it in so that the interface makes contact and then when you want to take it out it's totally hot-swap ready so you don't have to turn off the unit or turn off your computer you just press the button and carefully remove your drive it's that simple so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look of the Thermaltake black X