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okay so today we're gonna be having a look at something that we haven't seen before this is the next star three super speed external three and a half inch hard drive enclosure it doesn't include a hard drive but it is USB 3.0 ready so that's super speed USB so it goes USB then the high speed then super speed okay okay so the maximum transfer rate is up to five gigabit per second let me start out by saying that is completely unnecessary there's no single hard drive these days that it's gonna take advantage of that transfer rate but that's not to say that USB 3.0 transfer rates are totally unnecessary because what you could have potentially is a hard drive enclosure that contains you know for USB or sorry for USB for hard drives and you can read me write to all of them at the same time say for example in like a raid zero or something like that so then you'd really need that extra speed okay so basically USB 3.0 is about let me think so it's about three times faster than eSATA which is in turn about three times faster than USB 1.1 I believe let me just think so 480 megabit per second is USB - did I say 1.1 wow I'm getting very confused here why don't I just read off the Box to make life simpler for myself okay so it's backwards compatible with the USB 2.0 or 1.1 it's hot-swappable so you can plug in play without rebooting which would be pretty typical of a USB anything device okay so maximum transfer is out here we go so they give us the specs so the maximum transfer rates are up to 480 megabit per second which means that almost any hard drive these days is going to be bottlenecks by USB 2.0 however USB 3.0 at five gigabits per second is going to be more than enough for any modern hard drive so it means that you are getting the full transfer speed out of your hard drive regardless of how fast it is so it includes a USB 3.0 cable alright so you can see that we've got like a standard you do you recognize this one connector and then this one is a USB three but this is a new USB 3.0 standard so that's gonna go into the back of the external drive then you have some he's gonna look at that summer he couldn't see it well enough before oh there you go okay yeah that's good all right and then we've got some mounting screws okay so these two black ones go at the back of the unit to install the the hard drive cage and the knees for for attaching the hard drive to the sled okay instruction manual I just told you everything you pretty much need to know about how to how to use it here's a little spin so if you want the if you want the enclosure just fit on your desk like this then this is the little stand for it to sit in okay so that's pretty straightforward as well and then next this is gonna be the power adapter which looks exactly like it did for the old neck start to or next or maybe it is a next are three but the old USB 2.0 u SATA one I have one of these it's a great little enclosure actually it's had it for years and it still looks it even still looks all shiny they've managed to do a shiny finish that doesn't attract finger prints too badly so it looks like the new one the SuperSpeed next part three they've obviously dropped the eSATA interface because eSATA at a hundred and fifty megabit per second is not nearly as fast as USB 3.0 at five sorry what is it a hundred and no no no what it says Saturday at so the new SATA is three gigabit per second the old one is 1.5 I don't know the new one is six ok ok ok yeah yeah yeah yeah so eSATA is one point five gigabit per second and this runs at five so you sad is completely redundant on something like this it's all about speed alright so you've got a power plug here then you've got a power switch you can see that the unit will just come apart just like that okay so this is the sled I was talking about so you plug the hard drive in this way it seems to have mounting holes for you to mount it on the bottom so you plug in your fort or you screw in your four screws there alright so let me see this little header right here this guy right there you just plug in this one it goes in either way it actually totally doesn't matter you just install it one of the two ways but it fits on there and then that's gonna power the front indicator LED so this little van tech logo here will light up blue ok so let's have a look at started the unit itself overall so this just slide and on these little guides right here you can see how that fits in just like that so I'll just tuck that in there just like it was before oops Oh sort of like it was before there we go okay so you got kind of like a black shiny somewhat brushed looking finish can you see that okay in the camera okay good and then the top is kind of rounded and then the other side you got the same thing kind of a nice shiny nice shiny brushed finish on the metal there then the bottom looks like that alright fronts got chrome accents and whatnot so I think that pretty much concludes it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look here at the next are three super speed black USB 3 hard drive