welcome to my unboxing of the media Sonic prob box
hfd1 DS3 uh S2 uh docking station what you
need to remember is not necessarily the model number but what's actually cool
about this little external docking station so we're just going to open it
right up and get started here it's not small and it's not that cheap for one of
these docking stations but what's really cool about it is the fact that it
supports four drives and each of the
drives has warning do not install a remove hard drive during file
transmission must turn off slot power before installing or removing your hard drive movement of hard drive while
powered are being used will damage the hard drive and risk loss of Doubt okay
these are all relevant things but it actually has individual power buttons
for each of the hard drive slots which I personally think is really cool because
you can decide which ones you want to use and which ones you don't want to use
so inside we find a variety of different things including a power
cable a power brick which plugs into the
power cable which then plugs into the wall and into the unit itself also a USB
3.0 cable as well
as an EA cable so it includes all of the
cables you need as well as has some brief notes in the quick installation
guide on how to use it so it gives you a couple different things so your power
indicator blue means it's powered on orange means it's successive
um okay hard drive status power on or
hard drive accessing oh okay okay okay okay okay
okay so where's the power ah that one's there so that means something's being
accessed and then here is the individual one very good hard drive power buttons
press to power on or off the hard drive slot neat follow all instructions do not
place near water basically be careful with it some some basic reminders okay
shows you how to install a drive although we'll show you how to install a
drive cuz that's fairly straightforward so I actually brought myself a variety
of different drives to install in the media Sonic 4X docking station not 4X
like forign exchange Forex like times 4
just to clarify in case you guys sort of were confused by that all right so let's
show you uh how this all works on the unit itself actually I guess let me just
get these uh plasticky bits off here I'm having
trouble with that so I will do what oh never mind I will not give up I
will okay so we got kind of a shiny thing finish going on here we got some
more plastic that I haven't managed to remove yet there we go beautiful we got our
power button here which also has the indicator LED built into here in the
front we've got our interfaces in the back so there's our power there's EA and
there is our USB 3 side looks like the side oh look at this adorable suction
cups so if I had a table that wasn't made of cloth cuz clearly that won't
work uh then I could suction it on so that it wouldn't like go anywhere
accidentally because how how how much would that suck if you had like four drives in here and you were like oh hey
did you see the W and then all your drives fell down so there you go suction
cups neat so let's show you guys how to hook it up so you just go ahead and plug
this thing into this thing yeah thank you for getting that angle there plug
this thing into this thing mhm and then
you plug the things into the other thing so you put it in this way so it's
compatible with either 2 and 1/2 in or 3 and 1/2 in drives it's also compatible
with the latest drives which means that even if you're using a an advanced
format drive or whatever this doesn't care okay so let's just load this baby
up this is just a couple old uh 320 gig drives that's a newer one with the 1 tab
platters and then this is a 2 and 1/2 in
momentus XT and let's go ahead and try this out
shall we so we got it hooked up to my computer
now we're just going to power on the unit itself and you can see none of the
drives have their indicator LEDs on because we haven't actually powered any
of them up so let's try powering up one drive LED turns on and we'll see what
happens I don't know that that drive actually has any
um any partitions on it so let's go into dis
management no that's just my boot Drive okay let's try another one could be
broken too because I sort of was not
driving very well on the way home and it was sitting next to one of the other drives
so I hear something moving now
okay let's try action rescan
discs aha there we go that one
worked oh fail okay literally fail my
hard drive failed okay let's try the next one let's see if this one died too
cuz that someone that was sitting next to a
man how does this work okay hold on action rescan discs
installing device driver software here we go yeah yeah yeah there we go there we go okay so that one works oh yeah
that drive is like definitely dead okay now let's turn on the 750 and action
rescan discs cool so there you go you can just
pick whatever drives you want to have accessible or not have accessible it's
highly recommended that before you remove the drives you power them down
and that gives them what's also cool about this the fact that here yep there
you go the 750 is now detected there it is so check this out guys so with a lot
of these hard drive docks the only way to power down the drive is to physically
remove it but that can be that can be devastating for the internal moving
parts so this way you can safely power down your drive that still
works wait for it to spin down I'm not going to wait long enough here because
I'm sort of pretty much finished with this video and then remove it once it's
no longer moving so thank you for checking out this video on the media
Sonic 4X Bay
Drive from the smart family from their prob box smart family uh docking station
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