Dusty MacBooks, Dorito crumbs
on your expensive mechanical keyboard
and cat fur stuck in your gaming PC fan filters.
Sometimes it can be a real pain, keeping everything clean.
And even when you do clean your technology gear
it's easy to damage it
if you don't know what you're doing.
A can of compressed air usually does the trick
but it can damage components if used incorrectly
and over the years,
buying all those cans over and over again
can really start to add up.
Not to mention it's also bad for the environment.
I spent some time online recently
looking for an alternative,
and I came across the DataVac
which is an electric duster that runs on electricity
and costs about 80 U.S. dollars.
And boy, this thing blows harder than,
Now it's important to note
I purchased this DataVac with my own money.
So this video is my own personal opinion.
As most of you know, I have a cat
and her fur gets everywhere.
There's also quite a lot of dust in my area.
So cleaning things like keyboards and computers
and even my desk and monitor
is a fairly regular task for me.
The DataVac is also ESD safe.
ESD stands for Electrostatic Discharge
and it can fry sensitive components.
It's why when building a PC
you should always ground yourself,
or if you don't know how to do this
wear an anti-static wrist strap.
The DataVac actually includes one of these in the box
and also please never use a vacuum to clean your computer
for obvious reasons.
So without further ado, let's jump into the studio
and see if this thing lives up to the hype.
Okay guys, so we are in the studio now
and we're actually going to test out this duster.
First of all, I just wanna give you a look
at the build quality of this thing.
So it's actually really solid.
It's quite hefty.
There is a white version of this,
but I went with the black one
just to match all of my other gear here.
But this is a very, very solid piece of gear.
You can see the little filter in the bottom there
so you don't actually suck in any kind of dust
or anything like that.
The handle was really, really solid as well.
And the actual cable that you plug into the electricity
is super long as well.
I'm probably gonna say about two and a half meters long.
So you definitely gonna have plenty of room
to use this thing outside if you so wish.
Now as this computer is only a few weeks old
and I haven't actually finished building it yet
I'm waiting for some parts to arrive.
I have just been having it here without an exhaust fan
and also just the side panel open.
So it has gotten a little bit dusty, but it's not so bad.
So I'm actually gonna do this inside,
but generally I would actually take the PC outside
to do the dusting if it is super dusty.
As you can see on the front,
the cat has definitely made her mark.
There's a lot of cat fur on the front fan intakes.
So we're gonna be blasting all of this stuff off today.
And then I'm probably just gonna vacuum straightaway
as well.
I'm also gonna be cleaning my razor mechanical keyboard.
Now this is basically a brand new keyboard,
only bought it in about December,
but as you might be able to see here,
there's a lot of cat fur and crumbs
and all that kind of stuff already.
So after we clean the PC,
we're gonna test this bad boy out on the mechanical keyboard
and get it all nice, clean and shiny again.
So just to give you guys more of a better idea
of just how powerful this blow is, this is my B-roll room,
so where I shoot all the B-roll for my videos.
It's a bit deceiving on the camera,
but it's actually really, really small,
it's only three meters by three meters.
So right now I'm about three meters away
from those curtain kind of things right there.
And I have the arm attachment applied to the blower.
Now, if I stand three meters away and I turn this on
(DataVac blowing)
you can see just how powerful this thing is.
So again, I'll see if I can stand back
so I can get a bit of a D.
This is three meters away
and you can literally see at the point
in which the air is imprinting onto this fabric.
So that is a pretty impressive display of power.
Now guys, in terms of safety
if you're worried about Electrostatic Discharge or ESD
the best way to ground yourself
if you have a metal computer case is simply just to do this.
Just touch the middle case you are now grounded
and all of the Electrostatic Discharge in your body
is now gone and you're good to go.
Now, obviously make sure
you're not building your computer on carpet.
If you are standing on carpet
ground yourself every few minutes just to play it safe.
This particular thing does come
with an electrostatic bracelet or an anti-static bracelet.
In 10 years of PC building,
I've literally never used one of these.
I've touched hundreds of components,
never fried any of them do to ESD.
So you don't really need this.
However, if you don't have a metal computer case
which is rare, or you have a lot of carpet,
especially thick carpet in your house,
it might be worthwhile to actually wear one of these,
but make sure you make that choice for yourself.
Now, if you do wanna be extra careful when either cleaning
or setting up a PC,
you wanna actually install the power supply,
then you can actually plug the power supply
into a power port, leave everything switched off,
and that will act as an extra ground,
even more so than the actual case does.
But apart from that, let's set this bad boy up
and let's blast some of this dust.
Okay, so this is now plugged in.
So I'm going to turn it on.
It is super, super loud.
So forgive the audio.
Let's just see how this performs
(DataVac blowing)
Okay, so hopefully as you've seen there
that was pretty effective.
There is already essentially no dust left.
It's looking a lot better.
What I'm gonna do now is I'm actually gonna clean the fans
and the AIO up the top here.
And what I'm actually gonna do
is I'm going to hold the fans
because you don't want this blowing directly on the fans
and them spinning in the opposite direction
'cause that can actually fry them.
They were spinning a little bit before
so I actually stopped when I realized that.
So let's clean the fans safely and get all the dust off.
(upbeat music)
Okay, guys.
So I'm not sure if you can see using this camera
but literally all the dust and all the fur is gone.
There's almost nothing left.
There are a few smudges here and there
that's probably just water
or something or some kind of stain.
So I can just go at that
with a little cloth and just rub it off.
But that is very, very, very impressive.
So I'm happy with that result.
So all in all, I'm actually really impressed
and surprised by this little device.
To be honest, I really didn't expect much from this.
I did see some reviews saying
that the actual air flow coming out
wasn't as good as compressed air,
but this thing is probably at least five times more powerful
and much better than compressed air.
So I'm most definitely gonna be keeping this
and using this on all of my devices going forward.
And is it worth the 80 U.S. dollars?
To be honest, I actually think it is
because this thing is probably gonna last
for at least 10 years,
and that's probably gonna be at least
or 15 cans of compressed air,
most people would go to,
and that's easily probably gonna be around $80 anyway.
So much better for the environment
much more powerful, much safer.
I think it's an all around created labs, stamp of approval.
Anyway guys, hope you enjoyed this video.
It was more of a run-and-gun type video
which hopefully you guys will appreciate.
If you have any comments
or questions about the DataVac Duster,
make sure you leave them in the comment section below,
but apart from that, I will catch you in the next one.