Icy Dock Plug and Play Mobile Rack

Manufacturer: Cremax
Supplier: Cremax
Price: $61

By Dean Barker (5/2/2003)

Introduction

Many of you know the utility of portable data.  The days of having to rely on tape drives and floppy disks if far behind us.  USB 2.0 has brought this usefulness of hot swappable devices to us all with its 480 megabit/sec transfer rate.  Thumb drives were the first to capitalize on USB with the notion of portability but storage space is limited.  Earlier in the month, we addressed the storage space issue with a USB 2.0 external hard drive rack we reviewed.  This opens up ease of access and mobility to hard drives, not to mention making them hot swappable.  Today we follow that up with an internal USB 2.0 hard drive rack from Icy Dock.  We want to extend our thanks to Icy Dock for making this review possible. 

The Icy Dock arrived in a fairly flashy box which included the rack, driver CD, manual in addition to installation screws and keys.  Our test unit was standard beige but silver and black colored racks are also available.

Specifications

• Application: Holds a single 5.25” hard drive

• Seating: Installs in open 5.25” drive bay.

• Dimensions: 148 (w) x 42 (h) x 235.5mm (d)

• Construction: Aluminum / ABS plastic

• Interface: USB2.0

• Data Transfer Rate: 480 megabits/sec

• Cooling: (1) 40 x40x 10mm fan

If you think this device looks familiar, you would be right.  The face of the device is identical to the Kingwin hard drive racks we have seen before.  A LCD display on the left side is above three control buttons used to set and adjust the display and functions of the device.  To the right of this, is a locking lever.  This silver lever when pulled back, exposes a key slot.  The key slot has three positions: unit locked in place – power on, unit locked in place – power off, and unit unlocked for removal.

Removal is fairly straight forward; after pulling back the silver locking lever, the face plate hinges out so the unit bay may be pulled out of the rack frame.
 

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