Gadgetory

welcome back to harbor unbox for another episode of unwrapping packages no opening boxes what was this segment called again I'm sorry kickstart this episode we'll start with this box here which looks to be wrapped in glad wraps not sure why that is but anyway we'll get into it and find out what it is it's a heavy box quite a heavy box indeed alright well we'll just cut through everything and see what we find scratch the box okay this is a brand I haven't actually looked at before Drobo tip the Drobo got it right well done Steve one moment who skills okay so we have the Drobo 5d USB 3.0 Thunderbolt I believe I believe I believe I believe yep this isn't an ass it's a - so that's direct attached storage not network attached storage which means rather than plug into a network and having a heap of devices share the data right this is designed to be plugged into one computer and active a larger secondary storage that also can be used to backup and whatnot and obviously you can connect that using a thunderbolt connection well it looks like it may only be Thunderbolt 2 so this not sure how long this products actually been in awhile for and yeah USB 3 so not 3.1 gen2 so that's interesting we'll have a quick look at it anyway not sure how much like actual factual information I can tell you about this device apart from what's written on the box nope what's the grip just take it out of this this shopping bag that it comes in all right what's the pretty lights on this one prepare yourselves here we go mmm why does that rarely go to plan well that's cool oh it has a magnetic front cover so as you can see that just sucks in the place that's cool and we have a sticker behind it five three and a half inch drive bays power switch power cord fell out of the back now we've got a green LED light for drive activity and a whole heap of blue LED lights at the bottom that indicates something that we're yet to discover so just to recap you can put five three and a half inch hard drives in this then they can be configured in various raid arrays you can use that for backing up or whatever I'm cheering raise five or six is probably supported don't quote me on that I'm sure one of them is so if you do have one of the drives drop out it will rebuild itself your data will remain secure there's also in the bottom I believe yes there is an M Certiport and those drives are still relatively easy to come by so there you go M solder drive goes on the bottom there and that's used for SSD caching so not sure how much of an impact that has on performance just looking around the device so it must be relatively old it's definitely not a new product doesn't have funderbolt three support only Thunderbolt two pair of Thunderbolt 2 ports there as I set it to the usb three specs oh not 3.1 gen2 so that's a little disappointing I'm not sure if there's a new model in the works if there is I'm not sure why they would have sent this out so late in the game and yeah it is very pricey this unit five hundred and fifty dollars u.s. or seven hundred and forty dollars Australian we you can pretty much get a decent fall Bay anyway Nath's for that price which you know performance wise I imagine it's fairly similar Gigabit Ethernet connection often around that price I think the four bays you can do things like link aggregation and whatnot so I'd like to actually hear what you guys think would you consider something like a desk or would you just get an ass anyway since they're a lot more flexible and can essentially do what a desk does anyway I know qnap have recently put their USB 3 copy feature that can turn their nass into a desk so you can just plug it in use it as USB external drive so that kind of covers what this thing does anyway - the Thunderbolt so yes let me know what you guys think is a - something you would consider anymore or is it just like get an ass and be done with it okay so that was interesting different not the norm that's for sure but what we have here is a box with GX tape on it so that's got to be Galax so I'm thinking a graphics card at sort of graphics card shape and weight so we'll see what they have for us I don't think it's a 1080 TOI the box looks a bit too small for 1080i but you never know it's not a 1080 TI not hn 82 I can tell you guys that much ah this is still very very cool oh very cool indeed so it's a 10 17 you might be thinking not another daleks 1070 but this one is the katana model so that's a single slot gtx 1070 I've been dying to get my hands on this ever since they announced that something quite different of course I'm definitely going to take it out of the box and show you guys what it looks like and I will definitely be reviewing this hopefully I can get it done next week alright actually quite excited to see this so we're setting up a high-end single slot graphics card so strange feels like a blast from the past seeing a single slot graphics card wow that is cool so obviously a bit of a niche product it's not something everyone's going to be after it will have limited uses but it will be useful in certain situations very useful and it will do something that no other card can do so really where this will probably be most useful there are mini ITX systems where you know you can really only fit a single slot card though they're few and far between now most mini ITX builds all cases are designed with dual slot cards in mind so not super necessary for those but larger micro ATX cases as well going for larger micro ATX builds which sounds a bit silly because you think it'd be the smallest bill that would benefit from these but the micro ATX builds where you have the two PCI slots expansion slots side by side most boards have at least two with a dual slot card you obviously wipe out the second one that can't be used and the game is that's not such a big deal except for guys that want to use an extra adding card to improve like a sound card for example or maybe an nvme SSD on a adapter card or you know additional side of control or Thunderbolt 3 or something like that whether I want to add a second card this is where this becomes really handy because the second card would sort of probably goes something like that it wouldn't block the fan that's still quite a way back here so some sort of second card you can put that in your system and you have to sacrifice that PCI Express slot so it's very cool so although this model that I have here is a galaxy branded card there alternate brand for we have believe it targets Europe the European market is KF a2 of foam recalling correctly anyway both Galax and KF a2 produced by palette anyway you will have seen the GTX 1080 TI super jetstream reviewed on the channel big beefy graphics card so to make this graphics card so thin one slot thin it's obviously a completely redesigned and custom PCB I believe it's a four plus one vrm on this card which is still plenty for a gtx 1070 and something interesting that you all know around at the io end that we have sacrificed i think it's two of the display port connectors here we have one display for one HDMI and one jus link DVI so you can still have triple monitors off this card but you have to use obviously those connections and then they are claiming a base operating frequency of fifteen hundred and eighteen megahertz which results in a boost frequency of seventeen hundred and eight megahertz so that should allow for some decent performance out of this single slot card anyway I won't go on about this too much I'm actually keen to jump in the review and testing of this thing and see how it actually runs so there will be a review on this on the channel within the next week or so quite a few things coming up but yeah I'll squeeze this in because I am keen to check it out for myself and as I speak right now pricing isn't available in the US I believe at the moment six hundred Australian for this particular model but availability is still very poor so expect pricing to improve as availability improves okay next up we have a rather large box from MSI actually I think I know what this is this could be very cool as well okay it's a black box with msi written on it nope still no closer actually here we go this is what it is it is a laptop you guys would probably guessed that by this point sure the suspense was just killing you but here we go laptop woo rather impressive little laptop oh there we go the power adapter alright I'll get a lot off this table so you guys might be wondering what are you doing with a laptop Steve this is definitely Tim's department well I'm not stepping on Tim's toes with this one now the reason I have this brand new MSI gs4 heat-ray laptop is because I will be taking it to Computex that's right I'm going to compute X this year for Hardware unboxed so very excited about that MSI has been kind enough to sponsor the channel so thank you very much MSI and they've also provided a laptop so I can edit videos and all that sort of stuff while I'm over in Taiwan and so I'm going to read directly off the box because I actually have no idea what is in this apart from the fact that it does have a seventh gen Core i7 processor and a geforce gtx 1060 probably all you really need to know so the core i7 processors in the 7700 HQ it's the six gigabytes gtx 1060 it has a one terabyte hard drive a 256 gigabyte SSD 16 gigabytes of ddr4 memory and the rest is pretty standard stuff so a decent laptop for sure very nice and compact very light one thing though it is a 14 inch panel which isn't too much of a problem for video editing though it is only a 1080p display so that's that could be a bit difficult for the videos I'll test it anyway and see how I go but that's what I have for the moment anyway so Computex starts in about a week and a half and obviously I'll be using this for creating my videos while I'm at Computex so but before then I am King to give do a bit of benchmarking on this see how well it does perform in Premiere so do some premiere venture marks and of course with the gtx 1060 you know they'll be some gaming benchmarks as well hopefully i'll be out of squeezing and some gaming while i'm over there I'm likely back you know nice to think that I could so yeah more to come on this laptop for sure see you there I'm got to love the way the laptops get passed around so many reviewers this thing is very grimy MSI could have cleaned it up for me I'll let them off on that one no I'll give it a cleanup in a minute so MSI laptop now we have just one last package very small one and I have opened this already and a peek inside but I wasn't sure if it was related to the hardware box channel and it is so in the last episode of unboxing boxes you would have seen me unbox the master liquid protocol of the two 18 millimeter radiator couple of you pointed out that generally doesn't come with the am for mounting gear and you were spot on it doesn't so cool a master sent that along separately so hopefully you guys who are owed a am for mounting kit will have them before too long because cool master clearly do have them not a lot to it really just two brackets that obviously allow to be installed on an AM 4 socket and a couple of screws and things which I'm not sure if they're different to the ones that you will have received with the 288 I but you've got those so speaking of which I will have that cooler master build ready hopefully very soon on the channel a couple of days time depends on how we go with the schedule and what I have planned but I'll give you guys a bit of a look at what I've done so far it's not what I planned so let's just say that if you guys recall I unboxed the mastercase 5 T in the last episode and that is a phenomenal case it's got the dual tempered glass panels on either side it's got the red accents inside the red painting that looks cool for the motherboard tray and there's a few other bits and put some red on the front looks really really cool except I am going to do a rising 5 build in it a high and a 1600 X build and I know AMD's color scheme is red black red and it's kind of the common thing the common build theme I should say whereas the boxes and rise ins color scheme seems to be more orange and grey so I thought why not paint the case orange and possibly gray gray wasn't really planned I thought I just got orange and black and then you give me a spray can and things just get out of hand and yeah a few you guys are following me on Twitter will have seen the monstrosity but quite a few of you seem to like it I'll grab it now and show you so there you go surprise it's um it's very out there so unfortunately the gray I ended up using is a lot lighter than I should have used as you can see here should I go with a lot darker grey the orange I managed to get pretty close it's pretty close to the orange so I think the orange color is acceptable but the gray is a bit light but that's quite a few of you pointed out it actually looks like an overwatch build so maybe I might have to incorporate that into it somehow yes I swear we're up with that you know how well you guys can see that I have to get some extra b-roll there's the front door so I'm pretty happy with how to come up actually you've got the UM seat on the bottom so I've um and then there way you can see the motherboard up there but I've also custom painted the motherboard and the memory and a few other bits and pieces so okay that should um that should be quite an interesting build I haven't gone that over the top on a build before but yeah I'm quite happy with how it's all come up the paint I use was really cool I'll probably talk more about that in the actual build video anyway so that's that's coming up shortly that bill so that'll be cool and now I finally have the mounting bits so I can actually start the build and finish the build so that pretty much does it for this episode I am very keen to check this out though that's a sweet looking little graphics card there as I said obviously you've got to have a need for it it's kind of a niche product it's not going to suit everyone it will be for very particular bills so that's going to do it for this episode of unboxing boxes we had a turbo death and I'm really keen before I even think about reviewing this what you what you guys think of a - these days whether they're worth especially expensive ones like this like $550 u.s. that's a lot of money for add us and I'll put the funderbolt support but it's fun them up to now so how useful is that then this graph is cut which I'm pretty sure that will pan out very nicely as will my coolermaster build which has gotten a little out of hand let me know what you guys think of it as I know it's a bit game rash a bit childish almost and it's probably not something I would normally use that I've kind of grown fond of it kind of like it it's cool because well first of all I did it myself so it's always nice to mod something yourself and say that you've done it yourself but it's also one of a kind as well so that's also pretty cool not always a good thing but anyway let me know what you guys think so yeah bit of a rush Depa so here apologies for that it's going to be a things are going to be a little bit rushed on the channel for the next week until I get to Computex there's a lot of things I have to get ready and sorted out that's sort of taking away from the creation of the videos I don't even have much to unbox this time anyway so don't know how long this episode went for but it was a bit of fun and got some cool gear that I'm keen to check out so that's it for this episode of unboxing boxes I'm your host Steve see you again next time guys