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welcome to my unboxing of the media sonic Pro box HFD 1 - su 3 s - docking station what you need to remember is not necessarily the model number but what's actually cool about this little external docking station so we're just going to open it right up and get started here it's not small and it's not that cheap for one of these docking stations but what's really cool about it is the fact that it supports four drives and each of the drives has warning do not install a remove hard drive during file transmission must turn off slot power before installing or removing your hard drive movement in part drive while power to being used will damage the hard drive and risk lots of doubt ok these are all relevant things but it actually has individual power buttons for each of the hard drive slots which I personally think is really cool because you can decide which ones you want to use and which ones you don't want even so inside you find a variety of different things including a power cable a power brick which plugs into the power cable which then plugs into the wall and into the unit itself also a USB 3.0 cable as well as a head pin and eSATA cable so it includes all of the cables you need as well as some brief notes in the quick installation guide on how to use it so it gives you a couple different things so your power indicator blue means it's powered on orange means it's accesing ok hard drive status power on or hard drive accessing oh ok ok ok ok ok ok so where's the power that one's there so that means something's being accessed and then here is the individual one very good hard drive power buttons press to power on or off the hard drive slot neat follow instructions do not place near water basically be careful with it some basic reminders ok shows you how to install a drive although we'll show you how to install because that's fairly straightforward so I actually brought myself a variety of different drives to install in the media sonic 4x documentation not 4x like foreign-exchange 4x like x 4 just to clarify in case you guys sort of were confused by that all right so let's show you how this all works something unit itself actually I guess let me just get these uh plasticky bits off here no I'm having trouble with that so I will do what oh no right I will not give up I will okay so we got kind of a shiny thing good finish going on here we got some more plastic that I haven't managed to remove yet there we go beautiful you got our power button here which also has the indicator LED built into here in the front we've got our interfaces in the back so there's our power there's eSATA and there is our USB 3 side looks like the side oh look at this adorable suction cups so if I had a table that wasn't native cloth because clearly that won't work then I could suction it on so that it wouldn't like know anywhere accidentally because how much would that suck if you have like four drives in here and you were like oh hey did you see the Wow and then all you guys fell down so there you go suction cups neat so let's show you guys how to hook it up so you just go ahead and plug this thing into this thing yeah thank you for getting that angle there plug this thing into this thing mm-hmm and then you plug the things into the other thing so you put it in this way so it's compatible with either two and a half inch or three and a half inch drives it's also compatible with the latest drives which means that even if you're using a an advanced format drive or whatever this doesn't care okay so let's just load this baby up this is just a couple old 320 gig drives that's a newer one with the one terabyte platters and then this is a two and a half inch Momentis XT and let's go ahead and try this out shall we so we've got it hooked up to my computer now we're just going to power on the unit itself and you can see none of the drives have their indicator LEDs on because we haven't actually powered any of them up so let's try powering up one Drive LED turns on and we'll see what happens I don't know that that dried actually has any um any partitions on it so let's go into Disk Management no that's just my boot drive okay let's try another one could be broken too because I sort of was not driving very well on the way home and it was sitting next to one of the other drives so I hear something moving now okay let's try action rescan disks ah there we go that one worked Oh fail okay literally fail my hardened I failed okay let's try that next one let's see if this one died to you because I sold it was sitting next to oh man how does this work okay hold on action three scan discs installing device driver software here we go yeah yeah you have there we go there we go okay so that one works oh yeah that drives like definitely dead okay now let's turn on the 750 and action rescan discs cool so there you go you can just pick whatever drives you want to have accessible or not have accessible it's highly recommended that before you remove the drives you power them down and that gives them what's also cool about this the fact that here yeah there you go the 750 is now detected there it is so check this out guys so with a lot of these hard drive docks the only way to power down the drive is to physically remove it but that can be that can be devastating for the internal moving parts so this way you can safely power down your drive that still works wait for it to spin down I'm not going to wait long enough here because I'm sort of for pretty much finished with this video and then remove it once it's no longer moving so thank you for checking out this video on the media sonic 4x babe drive from the smart family from their pro boxsmart family docking station and don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos