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The uniformly black LANDISK consists of an aluminum square enclosure vertically mounted atop a plastic stand. The base of the stand is covered with a large rubber anti-skid pad. The top and bottom edges of the enclosure are rounded. </p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/landdisk/06.jpg"><img src="atruereview/landdisk/06th.jpg" alt="Bytecc LANDISK NAS Enclosure" width="233" height="250" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>LANDISK's front side is made of dark transparent plastic which allows five informative blue LEDs to shine through. Printed on the transparent plastic is each of the LED's respective labels.</p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/landdisk/07.jpg"><img src="atruereview/landdisk/07th.jpg" alt="Bytecc LANDISK NAS Enclosure" width="250" height="84" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>The back side of the LANDISK features a DC port, power switch, Ethernet LAN port, and reset button as well as patches of vents for ventilation. The back panel is secured with two screws. Removing the back panel allows the LANDISK's internal frame to slide out.</p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/landdisk/08.jpg"><img src="atruereview/landdisk/08th.jpg" alt="Bytecc LANDISK NAS Enclosure" width="250" height="89" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>The internal frame features an aluminum hard drive bracket. Mounted in parallel to the drive bracket is a mini V-Gear motherboard. This motherboard has on it the necessary components for a true NAS enclosure, such as an embedded CPU and memory; however, no information is included about either. Also mounted on this motherboard are the aforementioned front LEDs and the various rear ports as well as an IDE port and a Molex port. From a layout outline, it looks like the board can support two IDE ports, though only one is actually mounted. </p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/landdisk/10.jpg"><img src="atruereview/landdisk/10th.jpg" alt="Bytecc LANDISK NAS Enclosure" width="250" height="239" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>Covering the top side of the motherboard is a sheet semi-transparent plastic. This plastic sheet is present to detour the user from touching or messing with the motherboard.</p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/landdisk/11.jpg"><img src="atruereview/landdisk/11th.jpg" alt="Bytecc LANDISK NAS Enclosure" width="242" height="250" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>Included with the LANDISK hard drive enclosure is a DC adapter and a 5 foot long gray Ethernet cable. The medium "wall-wart" DC adapter has a green LED on it. Interestingly, the LANDISK only requires a 12V DC adapter. The reason I mention this is because all the external enclosures I have previously encountered use power adapters that provide both a 12V rail and 5V rail (since computer drives require both voltage rails). Using a 12V DC adapter is very nice because replacement adapters are easier to get.</p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/landdisk/14.jpg"><img src="atruereview/landdisk/14th.jpg" alt="Bytecc LANDISK NAS Enclosure" width="250" height="215" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td height="21"><a href="atruereview/landdisk/index.php"></a> <a href="landdisk/index.php">Previous (Introduction & Features)</a></td> <td><div align="right"><a href="atruereview/landdisk/external_drive2.php"></a> <a href="landdisk/external_drive2.php">Next (Installation)</a></div></td> </tr> </p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div id="footer" class="clr"> <div class="rk-1"> <div class="rk-2"> <div id="the-footer"> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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