Sans Digital TR4M-B eSATA 4 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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609 words · ~3 min read
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today we'll be unboxing the sans digital tower raid tr4m and we've got the uh the
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b model the black model so it's available in both colors so this is
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actually for the cameraman's video editing station because he's run out of
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space and he needs a nice fast solution for editing video so let's have a look
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at the accessory package to start we've got an e-SATA cable
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and we've got uh let's see let's go here we've got okay that's a power cord just
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a standard pc power cord then we have thumb screws for installing up to four
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hard drives so you can see there's only two screws per drive so we'll have to
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have a look at the mounting system in a minute and then a pci express 1x esata
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card which we won't actually be using because the camera ran does his editing
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on a laptop so there's your quick installation guide uh technical support
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and what appears to be a driver cd so now
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let's get into the actual tr4m unit itself
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it's uh pretty reasonably sized for a
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four-bay enclosure and let's just get the packaging off
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here so oh this is kind of nice looking okay so
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basically we've got a shiny plastic finish both on the front and on all
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sides so i'll get you to have a look there hopefully that's pretty good so
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you can see at the back we've got an 80 millimeter exhaust fan you've got your
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esata interface you've got a switch here to switch between 115 volt or 230 volts
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so make sure you've got the right one enabled before you power this baby up
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there's your power input and then an on and off switch
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on the other side you've got some more ventilation holes so that's going to
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draw air across your hard drives and then out the back of the unit and then
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let's have a look at the front here so there's your activity leds for your four
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hard drives there's your host activity led your power led
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and then let's open this baby up nope sorry
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so there you go you slide the drives in one by one
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and then there is a back plane on the back of the unit itself on the inside
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and let's actually just open this up so that we can demo a little bit better
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here so it's three thumb screws on the back and they're a little bit tight so
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i'm going to use my screwdriver to start them here there we go
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and let's take off the cover and then we can see the very inner workings
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themselves okay let's slide this back oh that's
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pretty easy okay so there you go so all you do is slide the hard drive in
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okay so we've got a wd black slide it in from the front you can see
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it engages with the back plane right about there and then you use two
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of the included thumb screws which i've gone and put somewhere else
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to secure the drive on both sides at the front
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actually it's pretty straightforward it'd be nice to see hot swap but for the
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price you can't really complain uh put it there anyway so thank you for
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checking out my blog on the sams digital tower raid tr 4mb