The packaging is well designed, easy to understand and clearly lays out all the features and capabilities of this docking station. We would go into more detail but we all know this is the first thing trashed when you get your hands onto a new toy so we shall move on and save you the suspense.

No folks, it's not a toaster, and yes those were the first thoughts that jumped into our heads when we first laid eyes on it. But, to no avail we just couldn't warm our pop tarts so we moved on to check out the device and later test it out with a Seagate 1.5TB SATA Hard Drive.

The device is nice and compact with a pretty heavy base for stability. At the front you have the main power button, which is surrounded by an LED indicator ring that states when the unit is powered and when the hard drive is being accessed. There is what appears to be the level for a typical toaster is actually used for releasing the hard drive from the docking station. Towards the top of the unit you will see a rectangular hole cut out large enough for a 2.5" SATA Hard drive to fit through and attach to the SATA connectors down below. Surrounding that rectangular hole is a flip down cover that reveals an opening for a 3.5" SATA Hard drive. The reason for said cover to be there is to add support and stability to the 2.5" hard drive when it is plugged into the unit.

The back of the unit is where all the connections are located, from left to right there is the Power port, USB port above, eSATA port below, then two 1394b Firewire ports, and finally a Firewire 1394a port. The next image display all the cables that come with the unit, each corresponding to one of the plugs mentioned earlier. Which by the way we are glad to see, a lot of companies now and days don't include some cables, what part of the industry that comes to mind is printers and the majority not including a USB cable.

...and now a couple shots of the naked hardware inside ;)

• Power Supply: OCZ GameXStream 1010w Power Supply
• Motherboard: ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe
• CPU: AMD Phenom II 940 Black Edition 3.0ghz @ 4.0ghz
• Memory: G.Skill 4gb (2gb x 2) DDR2-1100
• Video Card: 2 x ASUS HD 4870 1GB GDDR5
• Sound Card: On-Board
• Hard Drives: Western Digital 640gb (2 HDDs in RAID 0)
• DVD Burner: LITE-ON LH-20A1L-06 20X DVD±R Burner w/ LightScribe Black SATA
• Operating Systems: Windows Vista Business 64bit

Hard Drive used for testing the Voyager Q

• 1.5TB 7200RPM Seagate SATA Hard Drive

The dock was tested with a 1.5TB Seagate 7200RPM HDD, and the results are as expected. The USB averages out at 30MBps, which is normal for USB 2.0, and eSATA gets a whopping 87MBps as if it the HDD was connected to a regular SATA port.

Note: Only eSATA & USB 2.0 were tested as they are the most common.