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Cremax IcyDock Bodyguard 525 Enough about the wires. Let's move onto how the HDD is installed. This is the simplest part about the whole thing. The hard drive is held in place by a swinging arm which locks down with a single screw. The drive sits on 4 padded protrusions which are designed to help reduce vibration.
To the side of the HDD cage are 2 small fans used to keep the drive cool.
Installation As expected installation is pretty straight forward, and with the included directions even I could do it. I used my Lian-Li case as a test bed and powered her up. The backlight of the LCD display is pretty bright as you can see. It was kinda hard for me to get a good picture of the display in action, but I think you can see everything. You've got the temperature reading, the HDD activity display, and a cute little fan that shows the fans are working.
Testing There's not really much here to test except for whether or not the unit keeps the HDD cooler than in a normal bay, so here goes. Test System
Using the X-Pider's temperature probes (independent source) mounted on the bottom of the HDD, we tested the temperature of the HDD mounted in the normal 3.5" case bay and in the Bodyguard 525. Using SiSoft Sandra's file system bench run 4 times consecutively we recorded the temps. Here's a quickie graph with what we came up with.
As you can see the Bodyguard lowered the temperature of the HDD by one degree Celsius.
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