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what's up folks unbox therapy is back in the house and these unboxings just keep getting cooler and cooler today we got a let's see two big Quadra professional two disc raid and I just want to say off the bat that we've got a special guest on boxer today we invited someone from far far away he's known to most of the world as the Wolfman so please lay off the comments regarding the hairy arms he gets very upset and he's very self-conscious about it anyway now that we've got that out of the way the important part of this and the reason you came here is to look at the hard drive and there's a couple things that are special about this model first and foremost it has a ton of different interfaces hence the name Quadra and second of all the design is different from other external drives in that the entire enclosure is a giant heatsink and what that means for you is you're not gonna have a fan constantly running making noise in you know you're gonna probably want to use this thing in some environments where noise might be an issue but even if it isn't everybody knows that a another fan going off in your computer room is not necessarily something that you're looking forward to so one thing I noticed right away is this puppy's heavy as you'd expect it's got two hard drives in it let's take a close look at the back here we got our power port a firewire 400 port two firewire 800 ports a USB 2.0 port an eSATA port an on/off switch and at the top there you can see the indicators for the different type of hardware aids that you can set up this is also where the hard drives can be hot swapped out the back you can see on the front that you got your giant big blue Lissie button that everybody's used to if you've had Lucy products and that button actually has some functionality itself you can set it up to perform a number of different shortcuts such as backing up or launching specific applications that's completely up to you now let's see what's included I'm hoping we get all the different cables for those different interfaces and by the looks of it that's the case first this is your jumper pin this you're gonna stick in the back of the device to configure the type of raid you're looking for this is to remove this is an allen key obviously to remove the stand from the bottom in case you want to you know mount the raid into a rack here is your USB cable eSATA cable look at this they gave us all the cables we need that's beautiful here we got our firewire 400 cable and firewire 800 cable that's the one I'm probably going to be using and some self-explanatory stuff here is our power cord and the other half of the power adapter which actually is not huge and fairly light you think a device like this might have some gigantic freaking power adapter like though like the first xbox 360's or whatever anyway here is some utilities on disk so backup utilities and whatnot your quick install guide a couple different languages in here and lastly your warranty information and that's another cool thing about Lisi is you're getting a three year warranty with this stuff so here I'm gonna show you just how you hot-swap a drive you just got to stick poin in here and of course you've got two drives in this model and then this Bay just slides out to reveal a regular three and a half inch SATA drive in my case they're each gonna be a terabyte and I was actually surprised to find out that there's Samsung hard drives inside I was thinking I was gonna see Western Digital or Seagate but now we found a Samsung drive anyway you can see the build quality of the cage is pretty serious it's all it's all some sort of aluminum alloy okay here is a little bit of information regarding raid you can see we got our different performance chart depending on the type of interface you use obviously eSATA is going to be the fastest here's some information regarding the heatsink and how it works as opposed to a sort of standard design and lastly we've got that shortcut button which I explained to you earlier you can set it up forever whatever you want this episode of unbox the repiy has been brought to you by war Steiner beer it's premium it's German and I just finished my second one for the evening