Review on ICY DOCK Mobile Backplane Drive by Chris Goldsby

If you plan to use this as your primary operating system drive for Windows 8.1 or 10, there are no instructions on how to get it working with your system. I'm sure it will work fine as an additional standalone volume. As soon as you proceed to select the volume to be installed on the hard drive, it will appear in the list but Windows will refuse to use it. diskpart convert gpt did nothing for this, neither the basic disk nor a bunch of other configurations. Nothing helped even after we searched the Microsoft TechNet forums to use this drive as the main operating system drive. This could be because my motherboard is an older board, but I couldn't find a working configuration. No driver needs to be installed. There is some sort of RAID management program that you can install from their website. The instructions are extremely simple (usually that would be fine), but the manufacturer should have included instructions somewhere to make this drive enclosure work as a boot volume (step by step). I really wanted this to work. But due to the lack of documentation and information required to use this as a boot volume, it was completely useless to me. This is a heavy metal case. It has a cheap backplane (be careful installing drives, I had a feeling they could break easily). The instructions for using RAID are a bit iffy (i.e. if the backplane fails or something happens to the chassis (not the drives). The instructions say you can't just buy another ICY dock and move your drives , since the RAID can be destroyed if you try to move the drives to another (scary) enclosure, a cheap enclosure, so I'm not sure if you can expect the same level of redundancy that comes with a hardware $300+ RAID solution is achievable (which I'll probably do instead).