1
00:00:07,399 --> 00:00:13,360
welcome to my unboxing of the media Sonic prob box

2
00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:19,439
hfd1 DS3 uh S2 uh docking station what you

3
00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:24,920
need to remember is not necessarily the model number but what's actually cool

4
00:00:22,119 --> 00:00:28,880
about this little external docking station so we're just going to open it

5
00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:34,280
right up and get started here it's not small and it's not that cheap for one of

6
00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:38,200
these docking stations but what's really cool about it is the fact that it

7
00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:45,200
supports four drives and each of the

8
00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:47,760
drives has warning do not install a remove hard drive during file

9
00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:51,760
transmission must turn off slot power before installing or removing your hard drive movement of hard drive while

10
00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:54,879
powered are being used will damage the hard drive and risk loss of Doubt okay

11
00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:59,600
these are all relevant things but it actually has individual power buttons

12
00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:03,399
for each of the hard drive slots which I personally think is really cool because

13
00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:07,200
you can decide which ones you want to use and which ones you don't want to use

14
00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:14,520
so inside we find a variety of different things including a power

15
00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:16,040
cable a power brick which plugs into the

16
00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:23,799
power cable which then plugs into the wall and into the unit itself also a USB

17
00:01:19,439 --> 00:01:23,799
3.0 cable as well

18
00:01:24,439 --> 00:01:30,240
as an EA cable so it includes all of the

19
00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:34,560
cables you need as well as has some brief notes in the quick installation

20
00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:37,920
guide on how to use it so it gives you a couple different things so your power

21
00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:42,200
indicator blue means it's powered on orange means it's successive

22
00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:48,280
um okay hard drive status power on or

23
00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:54,040
hard drive accessing oh okay okay okay okay okay

24
00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:57,920
okay so where's the power ah that one's there so that means something's being

25
00:01:55,759 --> 00:02:01,399
accessed and then here is the individual one very good hard drive power buttons

26
00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:06,600
press to power on or off the hard drive slot neat follow all instructions do not

27
00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:12,200
place near water basically be careful with it some some basic reminders okay

28
00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:15,080
shows you how to install a drive although we'll show you how to install a

29
00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:20,000
drive cuz that's fairly straightforward so I actually brought myself a variety

30
00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:26,720
of different drives to install in the media Sonic 4X docking station not 4X

31
00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:28,599
like forign exchange Forex like times 4

32
00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:32,239
just to clarify in case you guys sort of were confused by that all right so let's

33
00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:37,000
show you uh how this all works on the unit itself actually I guess let me just

34
00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:42,519
get these uh plasticky bits off here I'm having

35
00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:49,280
trouble with that so I will do what oh never mind I will not give up I

36
00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:52,920
will okay so we got kind of a shiny thing finish going on here we got some

37
00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:58,400
more plastic that I haven't managed to remove yet there we go beautiful we got our

38
00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:04,799
power button here which also has the indicator LED built into here in the

39
00:03:02,319 --> 00:03:10,360
front we've got our interfaces in the back so there's our power there's EA and

40
00:03:07,519 --> 00:03:15,879
there is our USB 3 side looks like the side oh look at this adorable suction

41
00:03:13,799 --> 00:03:20,879
cups so if I had a table that wasn't made of cloth cuz clearly that won't

42
00:03:18,319 --> 00:03:23,959
work uh then I could suction it on so that it wouldn't like go anywhere

43
00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:28,920
accidentally because how how how much would that suck if you had like four drives in here and you were like oh hey

44
00:03:27,319 --> 00:03:33,239
did you see the W and then all your drives fell down so there you go suction

45
00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:38,080
cups neat so let's show you guys how to hook it up so you just go ahead and plug

46
00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:44,920
this thing into this thing yeah thank you for getting that angle there plug

47
00:03:40,599 --> 00:03:47,200
this thing into this thing mhm and then

48
00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:53,239
you plug the things into the other thing so you put it in this way so it's

49
00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:58,439
compatible with either 2 and 1/2 in or 3 and 1/2 in drives it's also compatible

50
00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:02,959
with the latest drives which means that even if you're using a an advanced

51
00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:07,560
format drive or whatever this doesn't care okay so let's just load this baby

52
00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:13,200
up this is just a couple old uh 320 gig drives that's a newer one with the 1 tab

53
00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:15,079
platters and then this is a 2 and 1/2 in

54
00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:20,600
momentus XT and let's go ahead and try this out

55
00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:24,479
shall we so we got it hooked up to my computer

56
00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:28,840
now we're just going to power on the unit itself and you can see none of the

57
00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:31,600
drives have their indicator LEDs on because we haven't actually powered any

58
00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:36,560
of them up so let's try powering up one drive LED turns on and we'll see what

59
00:04:36,919 --> 00:04:44,520
happens I don't know that that drive actually has any

60
00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:47,880
um any partitions on it so let's go into dis

61
00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:52,919
management no that's just my boot Drive okay let's try another one could be

62
00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:54,759
broken too because I sort of was not

63
00:04:52,919 --> 00:05:01,639
driving very well on the way home and it was sitting next to one of the other drives

64
00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:01,639
so I hear something moving now

65
00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:08,680
okay let's try action rescan

66
00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:13,280
discs aha there we go that one

67
00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:15,680
worked oh fail okay literally fail my

68
00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:19,560
hard drive failed okay let's try the next one let's see if this one died too

69
00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:22,960
cuz that someone that was sitting next to a

70
00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:31,080
man how does this work okay hold on action rescan discs

71
00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:40,479
installing device driver software here we go yeah yeah yeah there we go there we go okay so that one works oh yeah

72
00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:45,199
that drive is like definitely dead okay now let's turn on the 750 and action

73
00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:49,319
rescan discs cool so there you go you can just

74
00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:52,880
pick whatever drives you want to have accessible or not have accessible it's

75
00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:57,160
highly recommended that before you remove the drives you power them down

76
00:05:55,400 --> 00:06:02,000
and that gives them what's also cool about this the fact that here yep there

77
00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:06,120
you go the 750 is now detected there it is so check this out guys so with a lot

78
00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:10,960
of these hard drive docks the only way to power down the drive is to physically

79
00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:15,520
remove it but that can be that can be devastating for the internal moving

80
00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:19,639
parts so this way you can safely power down your drive that still

81
00:06:17,039 --> 00:06:23,759
works wait for it to spin down I'm not going to wait long enough here because

82
00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:28,120
I'm sort of pretty much finished with this video and then remove it once it's

83
00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:34,319
no longer moving so thank you for checking out this video on the media

84
00:06:29,599 --> 00:06:36,840
Sonic 4X Bay

85
00:06:34,319 --> 00:06:40,479
Drive from the smart family from their prob box smart family uh docking station

86
00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:45,280
and don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos