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welcome to an unboxing of the Zalman external hard drive case and virtual drive that actually kind of reminds me of like one of my favorite games on the Sega Genesis which was virtual eraser you know when it turns on it says that VR loved that game anyway this is the zmv e 300 USB 3 super speed OneTouch backup and safe remove all come on if it doesn't have safe removal then it's probably not USB 3 compliant but One Touch backup is useful easy menu navigation using jog shuttle ok cool USB 3 max five gigabit per second what else we got going on here we got a lot of different languages for where's the English I found it ok virtual Oh didi that's cool vertical virtual optical disk drive so what that means is you can actually to my understanding mount ice our load ISOs on to this particular external drive and run them over USB 3 without any optical drive whatsoever so you can take your whole library of whether it's like you know tech Isis or whatever else you turn the whole this drive into a virtual USB cd-rom drive that contains all of the disks that you need that sounds like actually kind of magical very cool OneTouch backup and safe removal convenient intuitive menus soon 1/2 inch SATA one or two hard drive compatible although you could probably throw a SATA 3 drive in there if you really want to it just wouldn't be running at that speed aluminum body for enhanced cooling an elegant design plug and play use the installation stuff come back to design convenient travel pouch provided that's actually very nice-looking ok we'll get to that after software download the latest from Sultan USB 3 cable download the latest from Zalman now you better use this there you go so there's all your USB 3 pins and there's all your other more different USB 3 pins remember USB 3 is backwards compatible so if you do want to plug in a USB 2 cable you'll just have to find one of these guys so that's what's that a micro USB I think it's micro USB and then it'll run in USB 2 includes a soft feeling but hard on the outside is almond carrying case which you can still see Oh oh that's neat so you can still access the interface and the power button and the activity led as well as the LCD readout but it's protected me quick guide showing you presumably some stuff whoops that's not what I meant - okay then shows you how to install the backup utility to use ah here this is what I really want to know so here's the jog switch previous file select file to the next file okay you can switch between OD d mode and hard drive mouth okay here's what I want to know to use the virtual optical disk drive iso file must be located in the underscore iso folder the device and turn to or free from menu if jog switches press for three seconds back from cool so that's how to use it that's fairly straightforward actually look at this they include a screwdriver and screws to install the drive inside there ve 300 enclosures so let's have a look at the enclosure itself because for some people these enclosures are you know they should look nice I actually 100% agree with that if I'm gonna carry around my hard drive and have it sit somewhere it might as well be one that looks kind of decent especially because the cost difference between like an inexpensive let's you know what I'm just gonna say it between a cheap hard drive enclosure and a nice one actually isn't that much it says remove film but I can they're serious about protecting this LCD there we go very nice very shiny there's your LCD activity LED there's your jog switch which can be pressed or toggled either these directions there's your oh sorry that's a backup button not a power button it's just powered if it's powered and there's your USB 3 interface which goes a little sunlight back AHA the brushed finish it is all on the top you got your zolomon logos all new cool innovations can you see the brush Tunis of it yeah there you go very nice the bottom has also got the brushed miss going on and in terms of disassembling the enclosure ah nice look at this well how do I do that you just kind of carefully you know what let's install it right because I think this is gonna be so quick that we can do it in real time okay so here we go I have a two and a half inch drive that I'm going to install in here oh no I'm just kidding guys this this is a Seagate drive from from a dead external hard drive it's a one terabyte so that's why it's like thicker than a standard tune a half inch drive no I found a real Drive so this is a momentous XT 750 gig and the reason why I might use a momentous XT in an external enclosure is safe for example I ran steam off an external drive which by the way I do that allows the Momentis XT to use its caching features to cache whatever games or applications that I most frequently use on to the built-in SSD so whatever files come up an awful lot that is the benefit of having SSD caching on an external drive and not just on a boot drive so I may have put this in the wrong way but here basically you know what okay I might not put in all the screws but here's basically what you do you just peel up the the trim here and then you install the screws and then put the trim back so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Soliman cool innovations now I forget what it's called the model numbers are tough for these things ve 300 I don't forget to subscribe - tech gets from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos sorry guys this is so easy I could have done it in real time you just plonk in the drive throw this in and then the screw is actually four oh now I've misplaced the screwdriver oh there's the screw actually just goes in here which locks in the top piece which locks the drive in place very cool