Gadgetory

well I've been meaning to run this test for quite a while I actually unboxed this Unitec USB 3.0 to say to to adapter quite some time ago so it comes with a power plug which I'm just gonna kind of crawl under the table here and plug into my already loaded up power bar there okay so you got a power plug so that's gonna provide all the necessary power okay so now the light turns on and then I just wanted to do a quick speed test with this thing on a motherboard that actually supports USB 3 so in this case I'm using the P 7 P 55 D premium and I'm gonna go ahead and plug it into an SSD to give us the fastest possible speeds out of it so you just plug it in like that matches right up with the SATA interface on the drive these things are so useful when you have something on a test bench that you need to to pull data off of or if you're just you know running Diagnostics on a hard drive or whatever else so I'm gonna go ahead and unplug the the Seagate USB 3 cable I've gotten there now plug in this one there we go so the vertex 2 is detected already okay there we go vertex 2 yep okay so let's get this opened up here and let's just do a quick test so first of all why don't we do ok my movies done alright so I got my big files folder ok why don't we just do the big files folder so I'm actually I'll do a quick read test although I don't know how useful that'll be so I cancel no no delete get rid of it ok so I'm just gonna cut this off of the drive that I just installed and I'm going to paste it onto a vertex 120 gig so this doesn't go I'm gonna go as fast as it probably potentially can this is only going at about 83 megabytes per second 90 so this is gonna be pretty much capping out the vertex 120 this is the original vertex whereas this is a vertex 2 so the difference between these drives is that they both have excellent read speeds but the vertex 2 just wipes the floor with the vertex 1 in terms of writes so what I'm gonna do is as soon as I've got this file copied onto the desktop I'm gonna go ahead and copy it back onto my vertex to drive so this should actually go quite a bit faster and we'll probably see pretty much the limits of usb3 here so this is going at 162 megabytes per second so that's very very fast it's a little slower now it's come down to 128 so about 130 megabytes per second so we're not even approaching the limits of the drive but this is probably the practical limit of what we're gonna see from the NEC USB 3 controller and if you really want to know how long these tests took I guess you could just kind of I don't know run back the video and then you'd know so anyway there we go there's the speed test it's done now and there we go almost and it's done okay so that's the Unitec USB 3.0 2 SATA 2 adaptor you know I'm kind of curious about something though let's see if it works without the power plugged in with a two and a half inch drive okay why don't I sort of give it a chance to like try over try again here because that would be an advantage that that Seagate cable from the from their modular hard drive has if they're able to plug into an SSD without an additional power source ok your device is ready to use plug it in let's see if we can run into the half-inch drive off of this particular cable your device is ready to use USB mass-storage is what it's calling itself this time it looks like no it cannot that's quite unfortunate but I mean the power allows you to also potentially plug ins much more draw power drawing devices so here why don't we try this then since we're on the subject of testing things I actually tested the Seagate cable which is here this one right here down from that modular interface external hard drive and that worked without external power with a an SSD but what it didn't work with was a an optical drive so I'm going to go ahead and plug this Unitec one into a DVD drive and see if that works when it actually has power so installing device driver software click for status cd-rom drive so it's working on it so it all depends on what kind of a solution you're looking for if you want something that works without any sort of additional cables and muss and fuss then I guess you want something like the Seagate cable if you want something that will actually work with a wider variety of a higher power devices it looks like this Unitec cable is about to work but we don't have evidence of it yet there we go ready to use and let's see if it shows up in here refresh refresh go go do it now there we go so I can use my CD drive which I don't think I have anything installed in so there you go with my big test and I managed to drop my headphones thank you for watching my video blog and don't forget to subscribe okay I have a Cronus true image in there cool