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Memory storage capacity

‎12 GB

Compatible devices

‎Laptop

Hard disk form factor

‎2.5 Inches

Max number of supported devices

‎4

Data transfer rate

‎6 Gigabits Per Second

Product Dimensions

‎20.32 x 10.16 x 5.08 cm; 440 g

Batteries

‎1 Lithium Ion batteries required.

Item model number

‎MB324SP-B

Manufacturer

‎Icy Dock

Series

‎MB324SP-B

Form Factor

‎2.5 inch

Hard Disk Description

‎Solid state hard drive

Hard Drive Interface

‎SAS-1

Are Batteries Included

‎No

Lithium Battery Energy Content

‎2 Kilowatt Hours

Lithium Battery Packaging

‎Batteries packed with equipment

Lithium Battery Weight

‎2 g

Number Of Lithium Ion Cells

‎5

Number of Lithium Metal Cells

‎5

Item Weight

‎440 g

Guaranteed software updates until

‎unknown

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B00V5JHOXQ

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4.3 546 ratings

4.3 out of 5 stars

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125,827 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
1,187 in Hard Drive Accessories

Date First Available

2 April 2015

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Backplane IcyDock 4 x 6.3 cm SATAI-III/SAS in 1 x 5.25 Inch HDD/SSD

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4.3 out of 5

546 global ratings

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Customers like the performance, build quality, and quality of the hard drive enclosure. They mention it works perfectly, is well-made, and is perfect for the job. Customers appreciate the size, ease of installation, and value of the product. They also appreciate appearance, and the value for money. Opinions are mixed on noise.

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18 customers mention18 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the performance of the hard drive enclosure. They mention that it works perfectly, has a functional NAS, and has no issues at all. Some say that the fan still works.

"This little gem, sits proudly in my new build and it just works flawlessly...." Read more

"...Sounds like it would be flimsy but it works well and I've seen many of this type of unit where the trays don't quite line up with the runners,..." Read more

"...were detected the Hot-Swap failed to work on ports 3&4 Port 2 worked flawlessly and each SSD were detected when inserted Trays are..." Read more

"...So far no issues at all, great build quality" Read more

12 customers mention9 positive3 negative

Customers like the build quality of the hard drive enclosure. They say it's well made, sturdy, and has good quality. Some customers are pleased and intend to buy more.

"...However, it's been rock solid, quiet and so I've left it in there...." Read more

"...Solid product...." Read more

"...Trays are plastic and while work perfectly fine they seem a little flimsy...." Read more

"...Well made and sturdy. Great product." Read more

10 customers mention10 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the quality of the hard drive enclosure. They mention it's a great item, useful, and an excellent case accessory. Some say it makes a little noise, but overall, they find it to be a very powerful little package.

"Fantastic product, fast shipping grate item, 10/10" Read more

"...will be worth it, as the V Pro even though it is old, it's fantastic for a media machine, which when it gets transferred it will be a streaming..." Read more

"...Well made and sturdy. Great product." Read more

"A good and useful dock, enabling easy changing of drives whilst live. Quality is good, as is appearance. We are pleased and intend to buy more." Read more

10 customers mention7 positive3 negative

Customers like the size of the hard drive enclosure. For example, they say it's very compact, fits excellent into the spare drive bay, and is a great space-saving design. Some mention that it'll expand any desktop with additional storage.

"Really nice little dock. The unit is short and so it first in smaller chassis, plus you can detach the rear fan to make it smaller if you're running..." Read more

"...Fitted excellent into the spare drive bay, would have given an extra star of the fan was completely silent bit sometimes makes a noise when I..." Read more

"...Unfortunately the drives are too big to fit in the cages. They Hitachi drives seem to be about 1-2mm too tall...." Read more

"...really easy to install and very compact and expandable NAS running CentOS 7.2." Read more

8 customers mention8 positive0 negative

Customers find the installation process of the hard drive enclosure to be fairly easy. They mention it's easy to connect, mount the drives, and organize them in their chassis. Some say that it'll be trouble-free since purchase and make working with SSDs a breeze.

"Fairly easy to install after you figure out how to remove your blanking plates. No noticeable extra noise from the fan on low setting...." Read more

"Easy to connect and a great expansion...." Read more

"It actdoes what I wanted it to do (organise my drives, make them easy to access, etc.)..." Read more

"Does what it's supposed to; easy to use and well-made...." Read more

7 customers mention7 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the appearance of the hard drive enclosure. They mention that it is very nice, good looking, and functional. Some appreciate the inventive design, which tidies up their case beautifully.

"...in use and you can disconnect one and mount or boot another, it's so brilliant, saves unplugging everything, instead just push the button on one of..." Read more

"Really nice little dock...." Read more

"...Good: Nice design for power and marked SATA Ports 4 Drives in one bay what is not to like..." Read more

"Nice and compact easy way to expand any desktop with additional storage...." Read more

6 customers mention6 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the value of the hard drive enclosure. They say it's a solid product and good value.

"very good for the price, but the fan is NOISY" Read more

"Sterling product for the price, works perfectly and gave my server a whole new storage array...." Read more

"Excellent build quality and good value for money." Read more

"Solid product, good value...." Read more

7 customers mention3 positive4 negative

Customers are mixed about the noise. Some mention that the fan makes no noticeable extra noise on low setting, while others say that it's noisy and screeching away with random fan speeds.

"...after 10 months, the fan bearing has given up and is screeching away with random fan speeds...." Read more

"...admit I did not think it was going to work, but it does and it makes no noise at all...." Read more

"...Also small fan included is way too loud for my taste but it is removable and not needed for my 2-3 SSDs, might need it for HDDs." Read more

"...cool, even in such a confined space as the tiny server, the fan noise is not a problem and really, the only noise is from the drives themselves,..." Read more

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 January 2024

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Fantastic product, fast shipping grate item, 10/10

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spl-B

Cheapish 4 in 1 Bay. Stay below 13mm in 2.5in drive height and you should be ok

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 July 2019

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Originally bought this product to house 4 x HITACHI 450GB 10k SAS 6G 2.5" Drives (HUC106045CSS600)
Unfortunately the drives are too big to fit in the cages. They Hitachi drives seem to be about 1-2mm too tall.

All was not lost as I re-purposed it to house my SSD's instead.
Does the job. Product is mostly plastic. The plastic cages at times don't dock in smoothly as there is a little bit of flex somewhere. Taking care they do go in but a little fiddly.

If you are looking to do frequent removal and insertions then I suggest look elsewhere, maybe a metal one where the tolerances would be a bit better.

The backplane features the SFF-8482 connector so they do accept both SAS and SATA interfaced drives. Just make sure they are not too thick. Eyeballing it the max height for drives to fit in these are 12-13mm.

5 people found this helpful

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clatterfordslim

Never Has My Hard Drives Been So Tidy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2019

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This little gem, sits proudly in my new build and it just works flawlessly. It comes with all the screws you need to install it where ever you want, in your case. My case is a Cooler Master CM 590 III Black and has enough room at the front to house two of these, though in my transferred build, which is my old very rare as hen's teeth build, the ASUS F2A85-V PRO Motherboard, with 32GB of Ram a 100Watt AMD Quad Core CPU, used to have my 1050ti inside it, but that has gone onto my ASROCK B450M Pro 4 with Ryzen 5 2600 Six Cores twelve threads build, for making my YouTube Videos and doing some light gaming on. Inside the transferred build, will be one of these and a DVD Drive, both at the front, as on the Cooler Master case, which the transferred build will be housed, the colour is white, so not to get confused, plus to save room, am waiting for Corsair 650 watt hybrid modular PSU (Power Supply Unit), plus some SSDs to fill up this Icy Dock. Do have my work cut out, but will be worth it, as the V Pro even though it is old, it's fantastic for a media machine, which when it gets transferred it will be a streaming media playground for me to have fun with. That's what computers are all about right? Having fun. I'm not a computer geek, just like to keep myself busy, having fun learning and taking me away from the real world for a while into a world of computer building.

Anyway back to the Dock it just works, the ingenious design and with all four drive bays, having their own number on from left top is dock one, underneath is number 2, top right is number 3 and bottom right is number 4. If of course memory serves me well? It comes with it's own cooling fan and I must admit I did not think it was going to work, but it does and it makes no noise at all. The only thing I can say is try it out for yourself, you won't be disappointed. They light up when in use and you can disconnect one and mount or boot another, it's so brilliant, saves unplugging everything, instead just push the button on one of the docks, then pull the drive tray out, or simply leave it in the dock, without locking it and activate another tray. I love Linux and the amount of fun I'm planning to have booting up different Linux OSES without having to open the side panel of the case, this Icy Dock is so superior to anything else I've used in the computer world and so I highly recommend this product.

3 people found this helpful

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Lee D

Excellent way to increase storage in a small footprint.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 November 2017

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I bought this primarily because I needed somewhere to move data to as part of a hard drive upgrade in my HP Microserver. I figured that, if it was too loud or used too much power or caused issues in some way, I could just rip it out and sell it on. However, it's been rock solid, quiet and so I've left it in there. There were one or two niggly installation issues which were the result of screws being marginally too long, but nothing that couldn't be fixed and certainly nothing that has caused any issues in the longer term. The drives run pretty cool, even in such a confined space as the tiny server, the fan noise is not a problem and really, the only noise is from the drives themselves, which I could probably cure if I configured them to spin down when not in use.

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unimpressed

Solid product, good value.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 July 2016

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Really nice little dock. The unit is short and so it first in smaller chassis, plus you can detach the rear fan to make it smaller if you're running SSDs or low-power drives and don't need the cooling. Also the trays don't require screws, the drive locates on plastic pegs and slides in in seconds. Sounds like it would be flimsy but it works well and I've seen many of this type of unit where the trays don't quite line up with the runners, leading to frustration and cursing, not this one. Solid product. Only qualm is the lack of any intelligent backplane to report on drive status of each bay but that's not really an issue for small systems.

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Steve

working fine until a few weeks ago now only able to ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 April 2017

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Have had this for over a year,working fine until a few weeks ago now only able to power up two drive bays, slots and the fan at the back of unit not working.....

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Josh McLeod

Best version of this type of product for its price.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 January 2018

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Fairly easy to install after you figure out how to remove your blanking plates. No noticeable extra noise from the fan on low setting.
Extremely easy to mount the drives in their chassis. You can use the screws provided as well as the screw-less system if you want.

After using this for a couple of weeks, one thing to note is that one of the screws I used to mount it was a little too long and stopped one of the drives from going in all the way (lesson learned, use the ones they give you).
Something else I didn't think about is you can't use right angled sata cables to connect to the back as you'll block off the power socket (only really a problem if you planned to use existing cables you had lying around like I did).

Finally, the bottom right slot didn't allow the drive to go in as freely as the rest but still works fine.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 November 2017

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Easy to connect and a great expansion. It is a shame many cases these days have eschewed the external drive bays, but if you have one this is a useful way to expand your harddrive storage. I have been slowly collecting SSD's since I got my first one and hate the idea of having to replace it because I need more space. This allows me to have more storage and have the easy of being able to remove if I need to upgrade/replace when a drive fails.

Well made and sturdy. Great product.

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Carlos Espinosa

El ventilador dejó de funcionar pero el vendedor dió excelente servicio Post-Venta

Reviewed in Mexico on 25 August 2022

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El Dock se ve de buena calidad y diseño y funcionó muy bien las primeras semanas, de hecho continúa trabajando, sin embargo, el ventilador dejó de funcionar. Excelente servicio Post-Venta del vendedor.

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Robert Klosterkemper

Easy Installation And Flawless Performance - I Recommend It

Reviewed in the United States on 28 November 2019

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Once I connected this enclosure to a known good disk controller, it worked perfectly. My initial impression was that this device was flaky but that's because I had it connected to a (new) disk controller, I had purchased from Amazon at the same time I purchased the ICY Dock enclosure. Now that I have it connected to a known good controller, this enclosure is performing flawlessly. I have all 4-SATA ports populated and reads and writes are fast and flawless.

Edited in June 2022: I still recommend this drive enclosure but here's my history with it. First of all, the power connector in the back of the unit is a SATA power connector so it doesn't seat firmly like a Molex connector would. That's like, whatever. Just make sure it's in there tight.

Secondly, I expected the drive lights to be activity indicators. They are not - only power. I'd like it if they twinkled whenever data was being read / written. Whatever.

Thirdly, The fan failed after a couple years. It whined like crazy so I disconnected it. My SSDs never go above 33 degrees C (as reported by CrystalDiskInfo). In other words, the fan doesn't do much anyway - IF YOU'RE RUNNING SSDs. If you have spinning hard drives in there, though, those things generate lots of heat and you will need a working fan. I recommend using only SSDs.

Edited again (4/29/23): CrystalDiskInfo does not read temperature, either because I have these SSDs in a RAID 0 configuration, using MS Storage Spaces or because the controller or the Icy Dock unit doesn't support it. The bottom line is that maybe my drives are indeed getting hot under load but since I can't read the temps (it always reads 33 degrees C.), there's no way of knowing, which is pretty messed up. I noticed that CrystalDiskInfo also does not read temperature information from an external drive I have connected via USB 3.0. But this is a CrystalDiskInfo issue and not an Icy Dock issue.

I still recommend this unit.

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bastibs

CY DOCK Wechselrahmen für 4X 2,5 Zoll

Reviewed in Germany on 2 October 2020

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Ich habe in meinem Desktop Computer das Problem, dass bei den heutigen 2.5" SSDs die SATA Kabel nicht einrasten und sich leicht lösen können. Aus diesem Grund habe ich mir diesen Wechselrahmen im 5.25" Format gekauft. Hier passen 4 2.5" Laufwerke mit einer maximalen Höhe von 12.7mm rein.

Das 5.25" Gehäuse ist aus Blech (oder Aluminium?). Die Führung im Inneren und die Festplatten-Schubladen sind vollständig aus Kunststoff gefertigt. Das macht allerdings alles einen recht soliden Eindruck - man sollte aber dennoch beim Einfädeln oder entriegeln nicht zu sorglos und ruppig mit den Teilen umgehen.

Die Montage der Festplatten auf den Einschüben erfolgt Schraubenlos. Das empfinde ich als praktisch. Das Einschieben und Einstecken der Festplatten erfolgt ohne großen Wiederstand und Problemlos. Eine böse Falle an dieser Stelle: Verwendet man, so wie ich, nicht die mitgelieferten Schrauben zum Fixieren der ganzen Einheit in einem 5.25" Schacht, dann läuft man Gefahr, dass die Einschübe durch einen Hauch zu langer Befestigungsschrauben klemmen oder hakeln. Also aufpassen beim Einbau.
Wer übrigens auf das Plastik schimpfen möchte, dem sei von Icy Dock die Tougharmor Lösung an die Hand gegeben. Das ist nahezu das Gleiche, nur eben voll aus Metall. Das kostet allerdings mehr.

Die SATA Kabel rasten an der Rückseite ein. Sehr gut, genau das, was ich hoffte. Die Stromversorgung erfolgt über einen einzigen SATA Stecker. Die Einschübe und die SATA Anschlüsse sind alle synchron beschriftet (1,2,3 un4), was mir deutlich den Asnchluss erleichtert hat.

Weiterhin befindt sich auf der Rückseite:
Der Lüfter. Nerviges kleines 40mm Teil. Glücklicherweise hat der Hersteller den Lüfter Kundenfreundlich von außen an das Gehäuse geschraubt. Er lässt sich leicht demontieren und gegen einen Noctua ersetzen - gerne auch mit größerer Tiefe, dann bleibt es auch schön kühl und leise zugleich. Den Lüfter kann man wahlweise an einen 3pol oder 2pol Pfosten/Pin anschließen. Zudem gibt es noch einen Jumper für High, Low und Auto Stellung. Mein Lüfter läuft auf Low und ist für mich aus dem restlichen Summen nicht herauszuhören. Temperaturtechnisch sind meine SSDs vorher wie nachher bei 42° im Betrieb.
Ein sehr winziges, aber gut bedachtes Detail: Schließt man einen eigenen Lüfter mit einem Längeren Kabel an, so gibt es die Möglichkeit zwischen Lüfter und Anschluss das Kabel an einer Vorrichtung aufzuwickeln. Dass gefällt mir.

Was gibt es noch zu sagen?
Auf der Backplane befinden sich LEDs, welche über einen Lichtleiter an der Unterseite der Einschübe nach vorne durchgereicht werden. Dauerhaftes Leuchten für Strom "an" und ein Flackern für den Zugriff. Die Backplane ansich ist passiv und recht gut verarbeitet. Es sind keine logischen Bauteile vorhanden.

Ich denke für mein NAS (mit HDDs) werde ich mir die Tougharmor mal holen, aber für SSDs ist die Variante aus Kunststoff bestens geeignet. Klare Empfehlung.

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Buen producto.

Reviewed in Spain on 28 February 2019

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Me ha gustado la sencillez de instalación de los discos sin necesidad de poner tornillos.
No me ha gustado el precio, un poco excesivo, que para ser plástico.
Buena compra en general.
Cumple perfectamente con su función.

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Tarezou

樹脂製のいわば廉価モデルですが SSD をメインで運用するなら使い勝手は良好

Reviewed in Japan on 5 June 2017

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2.5インチオープンベイには既に同じ ICYDOCK 製の MB991IK-B を使っていましたが、5 インチオープンベイには SFF-8087 で直接 RAID カードから接続できる Supermicro 製のエンクロージャを使っていました。

しかし M/B 交換により RAID カードを交換し SFF-8087 が使用できなくなったことと、もうエンクロージャには HDD を使うことはほぼなく SSD での運用がメインとなるため、ネジ止め不要で樹脂製の安価なエンクロージャでも良いか…ということで今回こちらの製品を選択しました。

標準で 40mm ファンが搭載されており、本体のスイッチで風量の High/Low/Auto が選択できるようになっていますが、元々製品情報ページでも「気に入らなかったら自分で好きな 40mm ファンに交換してね」と書いてある潔さが気に入ったので同時に AINEX CFZ-4010SA もオーダーして取付時に最初から交換してしまいました(ちょうどファンコンが 1ch 余っていたのでそちらに接続して風量も可変に)。

エンクロージャとしての使い勝手ですが、5インチオープンベイに取り付ける際は必ず付属の "デバイス" と書かれたネジを使いましょう。横着して手持ちやケース付属のネジを使うと、ネジがエンクロージャ内にはみ出して下段のトレイが抜けなくなります(苦笑)。
また、トレイについては HDD を長時間運用する場合は付属の "HDD" と書かれたネジを使用して固定した方が HDD そのものおよびケース振動からの共振を避けられるのでベターと思います(データ移動目的の短時間使用でしたらネジ無しで大丈夫かとは思いますが…)。SSD であれば、ネジ穴にはまる突起がトレイにあるのでそこに SSD を嵌めてやるだけで問題ありません。物理的な動作が無い SSD ならではです。

この手のエンクロージャは背面の SATA ポートと実際のベイのどこが対応するのかが分かりにくいものが多いですが、この製品の場合ベイ正面下にそれぞれのベイ番号が左右の上段下段のどちらにあるのか記載があり配慮されているのもポイントですね。

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Hardware interface	SATA 6.0 Gb/s
Brand	Icy Dock
Colour	black
Hardware platform	PC
Item weight	440 Grams

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