ICY DOCK 2 Review

This was an easy way to fit a 2.5" drive into a 3.5" bay without worrying about airflow issues (a small drive does not provide sufficient resistance and I am concerned that this will affect airflow through hotter 3.5" drives). It still lets in too much air compared to a 3.5" drive in the same bay, but it's not as bad as leaving the bay with just one drive. it contained a bare 2.5 inch drive. He took off a star because I'm concerned about the metal spring that supposedly holds the disc. For…

is little more than a piece of sheet metal with holes drilled in all the right places. But when you install drives in a backplane-backed server—or even many without a backplane—you may find that the layout requires the SATA connectors to be in just the right place. I needed to install a 2.5" SSD in a Dell PowerEdge R240, and while it doesn't have a hot-swap backplane, the static drive containers it uses combined with the case layout mean the usual small bracket I got first have tried. it didn't

This was an easy way to install a 2.5" drive in a 3.5" bay without worrying about airflow issues (the small drive doesn't offer enough resistance and fears it will blow the Airflow affected by hotter 3.5" discs). It still lets in too much air compared to a 3.5" drive in the same bay, but it's not as bad as leaving the bay with just a bare 2.5" drive. He lost a star out of fear. I have a metal spring that supposedly holds the disc in place. I put a disc in one to test suitability and immediately

I tried using 3 of these with 3 Crucial MX500 SSDs to mount in a Supermicro case sled. From the looks of it, they worked great. The slices kicked in and fell into place. The slides are bolted on - although the fit was tight and they wanted to splay a bit, they still bolted on nicely and slid into the body. But the system didn't recognize them as connected at all. Tried tweaking a bit but nothing - none of the three showed up as set in the BIOS. I removed a sled and just tried to insert the…