ICY Dock Removable Hard Drive Enclosure

Introduction

Most of us have more than 1 hard drive running in our system. In fact, with the price of hard drives falling everyday and larger size of hard drives keep coming out, it’s not surprise to find most system have more than 3 hard drives or more and many people are running RAIDs to increase the performance. If you are like me, who likes to tinkle with the system, you would find that sometimes it’s an annoyance(albeit one of the easiest job) to change the hard drives as it would require you to take off the side panel in order to just take the drive out and replace it. Today, we'll be looking at ICY DOCK's removable hard drive enlosure that will help to make changing hard drive one of the easiest job.

We have receive two removable hard drive racks from ICY DOCK—Modiflash 722 and MB122SKGF-1B. I have looked ICY DOCK’s external SATA hard drive enclosure and was happy with the ease of use and good performance. These two internal hard drive racks that we received are very similar to the external hard drive enclosure that was reviewed. Basically these drives put the external case as the 5.25'’ mount frame and still employ the same internal carrier that slides in and out of the frame.

Both enclosures are very similar in their physical appearance. They are designed to mount onto the 5.25’’ drive bay and accommodate 3.5’’ SATA hard drives. Both have front LCD monitor which can display hard drive’s information. The enclosures are primarily aluminum with plastic covering front and back. Basically, you have a frame which you would mounted to the 5.25'’ bay and a removable carrier body which you would mount the 3.5’’ hard drive. The frame has a front cover to protect against dust when you remove the carrier body from the frame. In addition, they have a lock key to secure the drive and a small fan on the back to help cool the drive.