ICY Dock Removable Hard Drive Enclosure

ICY DOCK MB 122 SKGF-1

Besides the Modiflash 722 removable hard drive enclosure, we also receive another removable SATA hard drive enclosure--MB 122 SKGF-1, from ICY DOCK.  This hard drive enclosure is a much more interesting product.  Like Modiflash 722,  it also comes with the same accessories, 1 page manual(black and white in this case), 2 sets of keys, 1 HDD access cable, and 6 screws.

The enclosure is much smaller than the other one.  On the back of the frame, (from the top row clockwise to the bottom row) you will see the 4pin molex, HD access in, master/slave set, S-output(not to confuse with S-video output), and SATA data and power connector.  As you can see the S-Output is where you will connect the cable to route the HDD access from your motherboard to the front LCD.  When you open up the enclosure, you will notice the back of the internal carrier does not have any connector as the Modiflash 722.  Rather than use a separate adaptor to connect the carrier and the frame, this enclosure uses the hard drive’s own SATA connector and directly connects to the frame's SATA connector.  Because of this, this enclosure does not require any special connector and it is smaller than the other enclosure.

The front of MB122 SKGF-1 looks exactly like the external drive that was reviewed with the additional of the LCD panel.  The LCD displays the same information information as the Modiflash 722(HDD drive access, HUTR indicator, Master/Slave indicator, Temperature indicator, fan indicator, alarm warning).

The key lock of the MB122 SKGF-1 is slightly different from Modiflash 722.  It only has 2 segments, an On and Off.  When it is turned to "Off", it unlock the drive to allow the carrier to slides in and out of the fram.  When it is set to "On", it locked the drive and turns on the hard drive activity.