 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. Love that game. Anyway, this is the ZM-VE300 USB 3.0 Super Speed One Touch Backup and Safe Removal. Oh come on, if it doesn't have Safe Removal then it's probably not USB 3.0 compliant. But One Touch Backup is useful. Easy menu navigation using Jog Shuttle. Okay cool. USB 3.0 Max 5 Gigabit per second. What else we got going on here? We got a lot of different languages for... Where's the English? Oh I found it. Okay. Virtual ODD. That's cool. Virtual Optical Disk Drive. So what that means is you can actually, to my understanding, mount ISOs or load ISOs onto this particular external drive and run them over USB 3.0 without any optical drive whatsoever. So you can take your whole library of whether it's like, you know, tech ISOs 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. One Touch Backup and Safe Removal. Convenient and intuitive menus. Two and a half inch Sega One or two hard drive compatible. Although you could probably throw a Sega 3.0 drive in there if you really want to. It just wouldn't be running at that speed. Aluminum body for enhanced cooling and elegant design. Plug and play easy installation. Subcompact design. Convenient travel pouch provided. All right then. Ooh. That's actually very nice looking. Okay. We'll get to that after. Software. Download the latest from Zaltman. USB 3.0 cable. Download the latest from Zaltman. Now you better use this. There you go. So there's all your USB 3.0 pins and there's all your other more different USB 3.0 pins. Remember USB 3.0 is backwards compatible. So if you do want to plug in a USB 2.0 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 2.0. Includes a soft feeling but hard on the outside Zaltman 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. Neat. Quick guide. Showing you presumably some stuff. Whoops. That's not what I meant to do. 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 ODD mode and hard drive mode. 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 of the device. Enter into or free from menu if jog switch is pressed 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 their VE300 enclosure. So let's have a look at the enclosure itself because for some people these enclosures are you know, hey they should look nice and I actually 100% agree with that. If I'm going to 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...you know what I'm just going to say it. Between a cheap hard drive enclosure and a nice one actually isn't that much. It says remove film but I can't. They're serious about protecting this LCD. There we go. Very nice. There's your LCD, activity LED, there's your jog switch which can be pressed or toggled either of 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 something like that. The brushed finish is all on the top. You got your Zalman logo, Zalman Cool Innovations. Can you see the brushedness of it? Yeah there you go. Very nice. The bottom has also got the brushedness going on. And in terms of disassembling the enclosure...oh nice! Look at this! Hold on how did I do that? You just kind of carefully...you know what? Let's install a drive because I think this is going to be so quick that we can do it in real time. Where's my drive? See? I can never find a drive I'm looking for. Okay. So here we go. I have a 2.5 inch drive that I'm going to install in here. Oh no I'm just kidding guys. This is a Seagate drive from a dead external hard drive. It's a 1 terabyte so that's why it's thicker than a standard 2.5 inch drive. No no I found a real drive. So this is a Momentus XT 750 gig and the reason why I might use a Momentus XT in an external enclosure is say for example I ran steam off an external drive, which by the way I do, that allows the Momentus XT to use its caching features to cache whatever games or applications that I most frequently use onto 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 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 Zalman Cool Innovations. Now I forget what it's called. See the model numbers are tough for these things. VE300. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. Sorry guys this is so easy I could have done it in real time. You just plunk in the drive, throw this in, and then the screw is actually for...oh now I've misplaced the screwdriver. Oh there it is. The screw actually just goes in here. Which locks in the top piece which locks the drive in place. Very cool.