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Review on πŸ”₯ Icy Dock Tool-Less 5.25 Drive Bay Hot Swap Mobile Rack - ExpressCage MB326SP-B: Effortless 6 x 2.5 SATA HDD/SSD Storage Solution by Kyle Awasthi

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Please with the product for price range

Nothing to say except that it fits the 5.25 bay as advertised and it works. One problem I encountered during installation: Make sure the screws or tabs on the rails holding the cage aren't too long. If your screws are too long, they can get in the way of the carriage. IE, I installed it in a Rosewill 4U rack chassis (RSV-L4000 configuration). The tabs on the mounting brackets, which are designed to fit the 5.25 unit bolt holes, were a bit long. Nothing, 2 minutes and a file won't fix it (I used my Dremel with whetstone to sand down a few mm.) It looks great on my rig and changing discs is very easy. Drives can be secured in the tray with screws, but I decided against this as it makes it easy to slide different drives in and out of the tray (a pair of soft pins in the bottom two holes on the back stabilizes the drive in the Sleds). The included sled feels like solid plastic and unless you're REALLY ROUGH it should last for years. I use them with high speed SATA3 SSDs (Samsung, PNY) and some blue SATA2 WD drives. In my case, the blue LEDs in the tray are lit when a drive is in the slot and blink when the drive is actually in use. I haven't noticed any performance/speed degradation across the ports. Because my drives have been formatted with AHCI support and the motherboard supports it. Hot-swapping non-system drives works fine. I have the fans set to low (all SSDs, which don't draw much power and run cool) and I haven't noticed any annoying noise from them. The fans that come with the drive have connectors so they can all be disconnected together when needed in a fanless, quiet environment, and easily removed/replaced when needed. For the price and the relatively low frequency with which I will change discs, I see nothing wrong with this disc basket.

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