today we'll be unboxing the sans digital tower raid tr4m and we've got the uh the
b model the black model so it's available in both colors so this is
actually for the cameraman's video editing station because he's run out of
space and he needs a nice fast solution for editing video so let's have a look
at the accessory package to start we've got an e-SATA cable
and we've got uh let's see let's go here we've got okay that's a power cord just
a standard pc power cord then we have thumb screws for installing up to four
hard drives so you can see there's only two screws per drive so we'll have to
have a look at the mounting system in a minute and then a pci express 1x esata
card which we won't actually be using because the camera ran does his editing
on a laptop so there's your quick installation guide uh technical support
and what appears to be a driver cd so now
let's get into the actual tr4m unit itself
it's uh pretty reasonably sized for a
four-bay enclosure and let's just get the packaging off
here so oh this is kind of nice looking okay so
basically we've got a shiny plastic finish both on the front and on all
sides so i'll get you to have a look there hopefully that's pretty good so
you can see at the back we've got an 80 millimeter exhaust fan you've got your
esata interface you've got a switch here to switch between 115 volt or 230 volts
so make sure you've got the right one enabled before you power this baby up
there's your power input and then an on and off switch
on the other side you've got some more ventilation holes so that's going to
draw air across your hard drives and then out the back of the unit and then
let's have a look at the front here so there's your activity leds for your four
hard drives there's your host activity led your power led
and then let's open this baby up nope sorry
so there you go you slide the drives in one by one
and then there is a back plane on the back of the unit itself on the inside
and let's actually just open this up so that we can demo a little bit better
here so it's three thumb screws on the back and they're a little bit tight so
i'm going to use my screwdriver to start them here there we go
and let's take off the cover and then we can see the very inner workings
themselves okay let's slide this back oh that's
pretty easy okay so there you go so all you do is slide the hard drive in
okay so we've got a wd black slide it in from the front you can see
it engages with the back plane right about there and then you use two
of the included thumb screws which i've gone and put somewhere else
to secure the drive on both sides at the front
actually it's pretty straightforward it'd be nice to see hot swap but for the
price you can't really complain uh put it there anyway so thank you for
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