 Welcome to my unboxing of the Mediasonic Pro Box HFD1-SU3S2 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 or remove hard drive during file transmission, must turn off slot power before installing or removing your hard drive, movement of hard drive while power to being used will damage the hard drive and risk loss of data. Okay, these are all relevant things. 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 to use. So inside we 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. So a USB 3.0 cable as well as an 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 accessing. Okay. Hard drive status. Power on or hard drive accessing. Oh, okay. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. So where's the power? Ah, 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 all instructions. Do not place near water. Basically be careful with it. Some basic reminders. Okay. Shows you how to install a drive. Although we'll show you how to install a drive because that's fairly straightforward. So I actually brought myself a variety of different drives to install in the MediaSonic 4X docking station. Not 4X like foreign exchange, 4X like times four. Just to clarify in case you guys sort of were confused by that. Alright, so let's show you how this all works on the unit itself actually, I guess. Let me just get these plastic-y bits off here. I'm having trouble with that. So I will do what... Oh, never mind, I will not give up. I will. Okay. So we got kind of a shiny thing finish going on here. We got some more plastic that I haven't managed to remove yet. There we go. Beautiful. We 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 made of cloth, because clearly that won't work, then I could suction it on so that it wouldn't go anywhere accidentally because how much would that suck if you had like four drives in here and you were like, oh hey, did you see the... And then all your drives 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. And then you plug the things into the other thing. So you put it in this way. So it's compatible with either 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch drives. It's also compatible with the latest drives, which means that even if you're using 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 2.5 inch momentous XT. And let's go ahead and try this out, shall we? So we 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 drive actually has any partitions on it. So let's go into disk management. Nope, 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. Aha, there we go, that one worked. Oh fail. Okay, literally fail. My hard drive failed. Okay, let's try the next one. Let's see if this one died too because that's the one it was sitting next to. Oh man. How does this work? Okay, hold on. Action, rescan disks. Installing device driver software. Oh here we go, yeah, yeah, yeah, there we go, there we go. Okay so that one works. Oh yeah, that drive is like definitely dead. Okay, now let's turn on the 750 and action, rescan disks. 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, yep, there you go, the 750 is now detected. There it is. So check this out guys. So with a lot of these hard drive docs, the only way to power down the drive is to physically remove it but 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 pretty much finished with this video and then remove it once it's no longer moving. 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