📦 StarTech.com Clear Silicone Laptop Hard Drive Protector Sleeve - 2.5in HDDSLEV25 with Connector Cap - Also Fits 3.5 Inch HDDs - Enhanced Hard Drive Protection Review

I bought this out of curiosity and was pleasantly surprised. I have known and used StarTech for several years, so I know they are reliable, high-quality computer accessories. This was no exception. Soft silicone hugs the hard drive, making it comfortable and secure. A small part is easy to insert and remove, allowing you to place a drive in an external docking station, for example. The silicone also has indentations that make it easy to securely stack multiple sleeved discs on top of each…

As mentioned, this is a socket that can be left in place. On the plus side, this hub is well made and compact, allowing the drive to be inserted into traditional vertical docking stations without having to remove the drive from the hub. However, the sleeve does not completely cover the actuator. If you scroll through the images you will see that there are holes in the bottom of the fairing, presumably for ventilation, exposing the driver board. If you have one of those open circuit board…

Greatest invention since cutting cheese. They're just two-piece silicone cases that fit snugly into your bare 2.5-inch drive, which many of us have boxed up. The soft and flexible silicone not only makes it easy to put on and take off the drive case, but also gives your drive a "soft" surface to protect it. Here's a tip: you can also take one of the Scotch Post-Its, write on it, stick the note on the front of the drive, and then slide the silicone sleeve right over it. Not only do you have a…

I really like them for protecting the drives I use with an external USB dock. It's small, soft, two-piece, and flexible. It's small size means it fits easily in a bank vault for offsite backup. Another reviewer mentioned how the disconnect point prevents the case from being left half open when the drive is in an external dock. My dock does not cause this problem. So I prefer to leave the bottom half on so I have something to hang on to when I take it out and also protects it from static…

The plastic on the boxes appears to be of decent thickness and quality. Plastic would be a bit softer, but not super fragile. The door seems to close normally. If anyone remembers old rental VHS tapes, they're very similar, but again, the plastic is a bit harder. My biggest concern is that there is too much space between the 1TB hard drives I'm using and the foam pads. the inside of the door. That means the hard drives are rattling. Even with a thicker silicone bumper (designed for kitchen…