 Well I've been meaning to run this test for quite a while. I actually unboxed this Unitech USB 3.0 to SATA 2 adapter quite some time ago. So it comes with a power plug which I'm just gonna kind of crawl into 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 3.0. So in this case I'm using the P7P55DE 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. It 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 pull data off of or if you're just running diagnostics on a hard drive or whatever else. So I'm gonna go ahead and unplug 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... Okay my movie's done. Alright so I got my big files folder. Okay 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 cancel no no. Delete. Get rid of it. Okay so I'm just gonna cut this off of the drive that I just installed and I'm gonna paste it onto a Vertex 120 gig. So this isn't 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 2 drive. So this should actually go quite a bit faster and we'll probably see pretty much the limits of USB 3 here. So this is going at 162 megabytes per second. So that's very very fast. It's a little slower now. It's gone 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 UNITEK USB 3.0 to SATA 2 adapter. You know I'm kind of curious about something though. Let's see if it works without the power plugged in with a 2.5 inch drive. Ummm... 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 their modular hard drive has if they're able to plug into an SSD without an additional power source. Okay your device is ready to use. Plug it in. Let's see if we can run a 2.5 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 in much more 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. The one from that modular interface external hard drive. And that worked without external power with an SSD but what it didn't work with was an optical drive. So I'm going to go ahead and plug this UNITEK 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 higher power devices it looks like this UNITEK 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. That was my big test and I managed to drop my headphones. Thank you for watching my video blog and don't forget to subscribe. OK. I have a Kronos True image in there. Cool.