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).
* Accommodates hard drives or SSD with up to 15mm Height.
* Supports SATA III & SAS 2.0 interface.
* Full aluminum body construction.
* Full Metal EZ Slide Mini Tray & EZ-ODD Tray system with Full Cage Design.
* 2 x 4 pin power connector to properly power all components.
* Available 40mm cooling fan.
* On & off switch for cooling fan, reduce the power usage and fan noise when using SSD.
* Status LED on Front for each drive.
* Top cover for the tray adds extra drive/ODD protection.
* Perfect for SFF (small form factor) case, IPC, HTPC, NAS, Home Server and All-In-One computers.
* 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.