Packaging and Accessories:
The Kingwin KF-4000-BK is sold in the retail style box shown below. You get plenty of information and a few views of the product before you even make a purchase, and then the carrying handle will help you get it home safely.
 
Inside the box, the main body of the drive rack is sealed in plastic and protected from damage by two forms.
The accessories are all packed in two boxes cleverly designed to look like hard drives. You receive four SATA data/power combination cables, a bag of mounting screws, and a user manual.
 
The cables are rather interesting, and while I was at first impressed by the convenience of the all-in-one solution, I later wished that more typical cables were used. In the images below we can see that there is one large connector that will attach to the back of the Kingwin KF-4000-BK for each drive installed. This connector then branches off to provide a SATA data cable, a 4-pin power connection, and a 2-pin lead that connects to the drive rack in a different location to power a drive status LED.
 
While the cables can definitely make setup easy work, and prevents you from having to buy anything additional, I later found I was only using them because it is the only way to get the status LEDs to work. The power supply installed had plenty of SATA power cables available, but they all went to waste since 4-pin drive connectors are used. I actually didn't have enough of them available, and wound up making a bigger clutter in my case as splitters were used to make sure all drives and fans received power. The SATA data cable portion wound up almost being a problem, as well. With the drive rack installed in the front of a full tower chassis, the cables barely reached the SATA headers located along the lower edge of the system's motherboard.
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