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welcome to my unboxing of the media Sonic prob box

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hfd1 DS3 uh S2 uh docking station what you

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need to remember is not necessarily the model number but what's actually cool

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about this little external docking station so we're just going to open it

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right up and get started here it's not small and it's not that cheap for one of

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these docking stations but what's really cool about it is the fact that it

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supports four drives and each of the

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drives has warning do not install a remove hard drive during file

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transmission must turn off slot power before installing or removing your hard drive movement of hard drive while

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powered are being used will damage the hard drive and risk loss of Doubt okay

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these are all relevant things but it actually has individual power buttons

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for each of the hard drive slots which I personally think is really cool because

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you can decide which ones you want to use and which ones you don't want to use

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so inside we find a variety of different things including a power

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cable a power brick which plugs into the

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power cable which then plugs into the wall and into the unit itself also a USB

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3.0 cable as well

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as an EA cable so it includes all of the

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cables you need as well as has some brief notes in the quick installation

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guide on how to use it so it gives you a couple different things so your power

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indicator blue means it's powered on orange means it's successive

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um okay hard drive status power on or

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hard drive accessing oh okay okay okay okay okay

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okay so where's the power ah that one's there so that means something's being

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accessed and then here is the individual one very good hard drive power buttons

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press to power on or off the hard drive slot neat follow all instructions do not

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place near water basically be careful with it some some basic reminders okay

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shows you how to install a drive although we'll show you how to install a

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drive cuz that's fairly straightforward so I actually brought myself a variety

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of different drives to install in the media Sonic 4X docking station not 4X

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like forign exchange Forex like times 4

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just to clarify in case you guys sort of were confused by that all right so let's

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show you uh how this all works on the unit itself actually I guess let me just

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get these uh plasticky bits off here I'm having

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trouble with that so I will do what oh never mind I will not give up I

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will okay so we got kind of a shiny thing finish going on here we got some

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more plastic that I haven't managed to remove yet there we go beautiful we got our

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power button here which also has the indicator LED built into here in the

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front we've got our interfaces in the back so there's our power there's EA and

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there is our USB 3 side looks like the side oh look at this adorable suction

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cups so if I had a table that wasn't made of cloth cuz clearly that won't

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work uh then I could suction it on so that it wouldn't like go anywhere

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accidentally because how how how much would that suck if you had like four drives in here and you were like oh hey

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did you see the W and then all your drives fell down so there you go suction

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cups neat so let's show you guys how to hook it up so you just go ahead and plug

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this thing into this thing yeah thank you for getting that angle there plug

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this thing into this thing mhm and then

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you plug the things into the other thing so you put it in this way so it's

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compatible with either 2 and 1/2 in or 3 and 1/2 in drives it's also compatible

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with the latest drives which means that even if you're using a an advanced

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format drive or whatever this doesn't care okay so let's just load this baby

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up this is just a couple old uh 320 gig drives that's a newer one with the 1 tab

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platters and then this is a 2 and 1/2 in

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momentus XT and let's go ahead and try this out

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shall we so we got it hooked up to my computer

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now we're just going to power on the unit itself and you can see none of the

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drives have their indicator LEDs on because we haven't actually powered any

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of them up so let's try powering up one drive LED turns on and we'll see what

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happens I don't know that that drive actually has any

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um any partitions on it so let's go into dis

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management no that's just my boot Drive okay let's try another one could be

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broken too because I sort of was not

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driving very well on the way home and it was sitting next to one of the other drives

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so I hear something moving now

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okay let's try action rescan

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discs aha there we go that one

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worked oh fail okay literally fail my

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hard drive failed okay let's try the next one let's see if this one died too

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cuz that someone that was sitting next to a

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man how does this work okay hold on action rescan discs

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installing device driver software here we go yeah yeah yeah there we go there we go okay so that one works oh yeah

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that drive is like definitely dead okay now let's turn on the 750 and action

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rescan discs cool so there you go you can just

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pick whatever drives you want to have accessible or not have accessible it's

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highly recommended that before you remove the drives you power them down

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and that gives them what's also cool about this the fact that here yep there

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you go the 750 is now detected there it is so check this out guys so with a lot

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of these hard drive docks the only way to power down the drive is to physically

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remove it but that can be that can be devastating for the internal moving

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parts so this way you can safely power down your drive that still

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works wait for it to spin down I'm not going to wait long enough here because

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I'm sort of pretty much finished with this video and then remove it once it's

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no longer moving so thank you for checking out this video on the media

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Sonic 4X Bay

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Drive from the smart family from their prob box smart family uh docking station

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