Icy Dock Innovative MB994IPO-3SB Dual HDD Enclosure

Well-known HDD enclosure brand Icy Dock has recently been enriched with a truly innovative product that allows the user to safely and professionally mount two 2.5” HDDs and a slim notebook-type optical disc drive (ODD) in a single 5.25” bay.

It is very rare to see such innovative merging of ideas into a single product, as most accessories and peripheral manufacturers are interested in selling as many products as possible and steer clear from merging two or three products into a single one.

The Chinese company came up with a very capable enclosure that fits perfectly in a standard 5.25” bay.

Inside Icy Dock’s MB994IPO-3SB Dual HDD Enclosure there are two 2.5” HDD bays with a slim ODD on top.

The 2.5” bays can handle any SATA III or SAS 2.0 HDD with rotational speeds up to 15,000 RPM and the user can also mount a top-of-the-line notebook Blu-ray writer.

The Icy Dock MB994IPO-3SB Dual HDD Enclosure allows HTPC users to mount at least four HDDs in any case that has a single 5.25” bay or 6 HDDs and 2optical units in a case with two such bays.

The happy owner of a Full Tower case with six 5.25” bays will be able to mount at least 16 HDDs and 6 ODDs in his system, depending on the number of HDD bays available inside the case.

No matter how you look at it, the MB994IPO-3SB Dual HDD Enclosure is a very useful and interesting product.

The official key features list includes:

* Fits 2 x 2.5" SATA/SAS hard drive or SSD & 1 x slim optical disk drive (ODD).

* Active Power Technology – Device & fan only powers up if a drive is installed.

The enclosure is backed by a 3-year warranty, but there is no official information on the pricing yet.