Review on ICY DOCK 2 by Dean Locke

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 example, the label on the disc was dented in the exact places where the spring rested on the top of the disc, which worries me because of the long-term fatigue of the metal that can result from something constantly pushing so hard on top of the disc. to drive, and not even bother, that is, the load is a simple click on two points. I think a plastic or metal load balancer would help a lot here. Luckily I'm going to use them "flat" so I don't need that spring to hold my discs in place (the plastic interface connector doesn't need that spring nor the rod that the spring pivots on), so I have I remove the offending spring. They now hold my drives in place by pressing them against the internal connector (they are held horizontally by gravity - I would use something else that doesn't put additional point loads on the top of the drive to hold them when I use them would put them on the side) and I have an easy way to deal with drives used in an existing hot-swap backplane that has numerous 3.5" drives.