Mediasonic Probox 4x Docking Station HDD Dock Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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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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