 So in the comments to my Seagate free agent GoFlex ultra portable drive unboxing and first look I actually had someone ask me a very interesting question and while I don't always reply to comments and messages I do make a point of trying to read them. They said okay well You've got just a SATA interface at the back of this external hard drive So what would prevent you from using these modular Seagate cables Which are very nice and very convenient with just any old drive, so I said well gee I don't know why not now while they may not work with desktop drives due to the power requirements And this may sound very very strange, but I actually had an SSD lying around but not a single desktop drive At home here, so I've already tried this, but I'm just going to demonstrate for the sake of For the sake of demonstration So you go ahead and just plug it into the back of any old two and a half inch drive Fits right in there real nice the light goes on and then the computer detects local disk E and if I can find my mouse, then I'd be able to show you this oh, I went and hit that stupid button Hold on yeah there we go back to auto excellent Okay, so here you can access local disk E, and we can do a quick. You know what why don't we do a quick speed test? Okay, so big files You know what let's yeah, let's do the big files test So I'm going to drag this over to my desktop, and I'll let you guys time it because you know YouTube oh? Man, this is going to take a while. Okay. Well you can see our transfer speed is around 30 Megs per second Which is pretty typical for USB 2.0, and I hope I'm able to find something to talk about here Um I could show you the cats okay here. What okay? Well while this is running. I'm just going to hold on and go Go Go to the bathroom where I keep all of the cat toys Hold on a second I'm going to get their favorite toy here Which oh see here they come running they know they know what I have Hey guys You like this one don't you oh? Oh he's got it already got their feather Which is very exciting for them they like to fight it And let's see if the file transfer is done it is not so Okay, I'm going to let you guys see the state of disrepair that my floor is in right now I've been doing unboxings and the thing about unboxing is you end up with a lot of boxes And I don't really know what to do with them all all the time Oh man, wow they're fast today. Oh it fell apart. Oh their toy broke This is a disaster Hey now he's eating it hey get off that Get off that no Give me that give me Ah he got me hey don't growl at me Give me that Rotten things Okay here we go file transfer is done Okay so it took approximately that long So what I also discovered is that Now whatever Oh for Christ don't come up on my desk Get back here Enough out of you These guys are just ridiculous okay put that in my pocket Hi rotten cat Okay come with me Come here There we go Got the cat Okay so now why don't we take that drive and go plug it into the USB 3 version Which I have plugged into a test PC Alright so I unplugged that And I hit that stupid button again that makes it so it doesn't Yeah here we go Okay so the USB 3.0 version is plugged into a test PC here which supports USB 3.0 My computer actually does not support USB 3.0 It is a little bit older than that So we'll go ahead and plug this in There we go it will be hopefully perfectly well supported There we go it's detected already We open it up and then why don't we do a quick speed test here And I'm hopefully going to be actually there for the conclusion of it this time But I think the general point should be that it goes much faster This is USB 3.0 so we are seeing much much higher transfer speeds Oh as high as a mouse cursor megabytes per second Note we are seeing up to about 110 to 120 megabytes per second So the total transfer is going to take probably about 10-15 seconds So much faster than USB 2.0 if you are actually trying to move around substantial amounts of data In fact this may even be bottlenecked by the vertex 1 120 gig hard drive That I am using in the test PC so that is done just now when I took the camera away again So thank you for checking out this sort of follow up to the free agent What is it called? Free agent GoFlex And so it looks like all those cables can actually be used with other 2.5 inch drives Just as easily as they can be used with the free agent GoFlex itself