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welcome to my unboxing of the medi Sonic prob box h82 DS3

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S2 I think what they mean to say is it's an 8X it's an 8 bay USB 3 external hard

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drive enclosure and there's a couple things that are pretty cool about it so I'm going to run through everything

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media Sonic has to say about it and then I'm going to tell you what I think is

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interesting so first of all it supports eight hard drives of different brand and

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capacity you can throw whatever you want in there although with an enclosure like

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this I don't think I'd really recommend it okay it supports up to 24 terabytes

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yes that's 3 terabytes time 8 Bays it

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has one button interface selection so you can flexible alternative interface

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selection by simply pressing the button ah yes so the interface uh meaning

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either eat or USB 3 because it does support both of those transfer methods

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it's got a security lock because you don't want people running along and stealing your hard drives Force

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convection process for cooling power sync Powers off and on synchronized with

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the PC that's very handy because you don't need to access data that's plugged

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in by eata unless the system is powered on very nice supports hard drive hot

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swap need hard drive supported and smart fan comes with auto

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manual modes three levels of speed for best

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convention supports Windows 7 e USB 3

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we've mentioned that before all right moving along to the side we see what it

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looks like from the back moving along to the back we see what it looks like from

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the front and the side so far this is all stuff that's been covered Force

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convection process power sync one

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button okay moving back along to the other side okay hold on a minute ah here

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we go this is interesting here is a comparison chart so we're showing USB 3

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versus E versus USB 2 usb2 is slow es is

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fast and USB 3 is super speed so in Practical terms um USB 3 and

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eSATA probably aren't going to give you much of a difference in terms of

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performance because the way I would install drives in an enclosure like this

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is going to be um well not able to

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saturate a an ESAT connection so these are all theoretical maximums that you

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see in that graph on the back so let's go ahead and open it up and don't worry

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I will tell you the part about what I think is interesting about it coming

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soon first the accessories so the first

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accessory is an ESAT cable very nice

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next accessory is a usb3 cable that's a to

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B oh cameraman says it is a Mac

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compatible so thank you for that cameraman next we have hard drive rails

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including a screwdriver for you to install set rails and screws for you to

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install all head rails next we have a power supply cable so the power supply

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is built right into the unit which is nice because you don't have to deal with

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that external power brick nonsense okay

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we've got nice closed cell foam very very thick so you got like almost 2 Ines

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of foam on every side of the unit so I wouldn't worry too much about it being

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damaged and try wow it's heavy once you

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load this thing up with hard drives it's going to weigh like a ton all right open

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this baby up

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okay there it is the pro box 8 bay USB 3

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esad a hard drive enclosure so why don't we start at the

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front since that's a very natural place to start how do you open it you know

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what why don't I open it first give me a sec so by plugging in the key here I can

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unlock

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Aha and open the door so you can see I

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can uh remove my hard drive cage doors

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then I install my rails on the drives and then I throw the drives back into

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here so I am finally going to tell you what I think is so cool about this

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enclosure this enclosure includes an8

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Port multiplier so what that means is if

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you want to access all of the

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SATA ports so that is the eight ports

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you can do that whole thing through a single eat interface back here or usb3

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interface the eSATA one is more interesting to me though so a port

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multiplier this is not a raid box this is just a straight one SATA to eight

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SATA port multiplier which is great because compared to competing Solutions

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which might have two e SATA interfaces on the back and then two four port

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multipliers this allows you to configure array across up to eight drives using a

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single port so you can actually plug this in to your Intel uh to your Intel

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controller assuming your board uses the Intel controller for its eata and you

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can configure like an eight Drive raid five for example which is awesome now if

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the Intel controller is not fast enough for you you don't want to use like a software mode you can actually take

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proper raid cards and you can plug them into one port here now you're going to

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be bandwidth Limited in terms of the single EA connection but even eight

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drives in like a raid five or a raid six shouldn't be bottlenecked too much by an

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ESAT 300 megabit per second connection

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so or did I say three I meant three um 3

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gbit per second connection shouldn't be bottleneck too much so that means that

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you are going to have excellent performance to up to eight drives at a

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time so cameraman is showing us the ESAT and the USB 3 uh indicators the fan

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indicators as well as the ESAT and usb3 indicators okay I'm not sure which

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is which okay finally we have the interface change button the sync button

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and the fan button so these are all the uh LEDs and what knots another thing

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that's interesting about this particular Drive enclosure is that it looks very

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nice see it's got like a nice matte black finish going on there on the back

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we can see two 80 mm fans and what's cool about those fans is they are easily

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user replaceable yes media Sonic will not void you or your warranty for

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replacing those fans with something else I think that is a great feature right

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there there's our built-in power supply down there at the bottom that's part of

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what gives the unit its weight finally at the back we have a Kensington lock

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right here so that uh nobody just runs along steals your whole 24 tbte Tower of

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precious family memories and then runs off with it and I think that is pretty

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much everything I wanted to say about this 8 bay hard drive tower so I'm going

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to go ahead close it up take the key and swallow it