MB607SP-B

Works like a charm. Solid metal design, good airflow above and below for each slot, and a single power connector for all four (separate SATA data cables, one sata-power cable). Being me, I took the thing apart. Five screws and the backplane comes off, one more and its circuit board can be taken out and examined. Totally trivial, very well seated and secured... notches into the frame... zero wiggle room (good!). I counted 9 capacitors on the power distribution bus so they didn't cut any corners there. Inserting an HDD did not glitch the power for the other drives that were already in. I give the backplane a big thumbs up for design and engineering. The drive bays are solid. Considering that we are cramming four 2.5" drives into a 5.25" enclosure, the design is very good. The bottom of each bay drops out a little to give the bottom of the drive a little space. The areas near the screw holes are flush, though, but it didn't seem to have any issues mounting the seagate HDDs I had without a plastic protector (clearance on the HDD drive mounts is about 1mm to the drive's circuit board). It is not screwless... requires four screws (flatheads are included). Two are round holes, two are oval. Not sure why they didn't use round for all four but the two round holes are near the connector side so the drive's connector is guaranteed to be properly aligned. Easycakes, and honestly you only need to use two screws (in the round holes nearest the connector) anyway. The fan is the only downside, being small and noisy, but I still give the device 5 stars for several reasons. First, they included a fan control switch (OFF, LOW, HIGH settings). Second, airflow looks good for all four slots. In terms of the fan control, no point ever using 'HIGH'. Just use LOW or OFF. The LOW setting is definitely audible which is unfortunate but there isn't a whole lot of room on the design side considering the fan has to fit the height. On the plus side, not only is there an 'OFF' position (if you have SSDs, you don't need the fan), but if the case itself has good airflow you can physically remove the fan with two simple screws to open it up and allow the case airflow to handle any cooling requirements. The fan's power able goes to a connector and just pulls off, so its easy to remove. In fact, if you really wanted to and didn't want the hot-swap, you could unscrew the whole backplane and just use it as four permanent slots. Silly I know, but the case is so well engineered that it has that flexibility if you wanted it. Fan tests, Four 1TB Seagate HDDs. Writing mean all four drives writing continuously for 20 minutes or so. Temperatures taken using SMART info (all four returned the same temp within +/- 1C): idle, low fan: 26C Idle, no fan: 27C (i.e. PC case fan only, no direct airflow) writing, high fan: 38C writing, low fan: 41C writing, no fan: 47C (i.e. PC case fan only, no direct airflow) So with all those features and easy modding, ICY gets 5 stars. ADDENDUM - I had one issue with the dock. On one of the machines I used longer screws to mount the dock in the bay. They turned out to be too long and infringed on the tray area, causing damage to one of the trays which I didn't realize until I tried to pull the tray out and couldn't. This was my own fault. So remember to use the low-profile screws that come with the unit... or at least make sure they don't infringe the bays. ADDENDUM2 - If you purchase your own 40mm fan you may not be able to use the LOW setting. Depending on the fan, it might not startup unless you use the HIGH setting. I still definitely recommend purchasing your own low-noise 40mm fan and not using the cheap noisy one that comes with the unit. You don't need much airflow to cool HDDs (and don't need any at all for SSDs), so find the quietest 40mm fan you can and you will be a happy camper. The only downside to the unit is having to screw the drives into the hot-swap trays... in particular, losing the screws for the trays you aren't using atm. I recommend storing the unused screws in their plastic bag IN one of the unused trays. -Matt

Product is sturdy, simple to install and works well. Only caveats: Status light seems to only indicate power to the HDD and does not include other faults and don't see any way to indicate as such with my controller. Price is slightly on the higher end but was happy enough as it has been pretty solid thus far.

Great for small cases and quality is superb!

I had a few SSD's kicking around and some older spinning disk in my PC. I bought one of these and pulled some spinning disk out then put the SSD's to work. I bought a 4 port SATA card just for this and so far so good. If you are going to do a lot of swapping they make one that does not have tray's, you have to screw the drives to these, but for some reason the ratings weren't so good. My swapping will be minimal so I went for this one. I had a pair of WD Blue 500GB SSD's I put in bay's 1 and 2 and created a 1TB drive. Have another crucial 250GB in bay 3 and use bay 4 for hot swapping. I used this controller and the drives have excellent performance! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SZDK6CZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Poor quality - cannot remove drives. I installed this and all my 4 drives went in smoothly on their caddies. Everything connected and worked perfectly. I went to remove the drives later to swap them for some larger ones and found that the bottom left and bottom right caddies literally would not come out at all. The bottom left one, the front arm swung open normally, but I had to pry on it to the point of breaking the caddy to get my disk out. On the top right, I can't even depress the button to get the arm to swing open. Guess I'm gonna have to cut open the enclosure to get my disk out. Avoid ICY DOCK and their poor manufacturing/QA

Excellent rugged full metal drive bay. Very happy. I have used icy dock before. Very well made products. Great design. Fair value. I always wish things were cheaper though. :)

This 4 bay metal hard drive cage is rock solid. Using this with four SSDs. I would buy another with no hesitations. Good stuff.

This is a GREAT product! I bought two of these units for a backup server where I needed a high density of 2.5" removable hard drives. Everything about this unit is high quality. The drive trays (which are included) are manufactured to close tolerances so that they slide smoothly but snugly in and out of the chassis. With something as critical as backup I was looking for a highly reliable multi-bay removable hard drive solution that would work without any monkeying around. This unit fit the bill perfectly!

Comprato qualche anno fa (2022) e penso siano maturi i tempi per una recensione ponderata. Il rack ha 4 baie per HD/SSD da 2,5 pollici. Si alloggia facilmente all'interno della torre di un PC da tavolo occupando una baia da 5 1/4 pollici. Il collegamento della cavistica (non in dotazione) alla scheda madre non è affatto difficile. L'inserimento degli HD/SSD è facilitato da una slitta su cui si monta l'HD/SDD (procuratevi delle viti per il fissaggio degli stessi perché non in dotazione), facendola scorrere, poi, all'interno dell'alloggiamento finché non si chiude il portellino con uno scatto finale. Ogni baia si apre con un pulsante, premendo sul quale, oltre ad aprire il portellino, si sgancia la slitta e l'HD/SSD dal fondo pronto per l'estrazione. Si dice che si possano anche fare delle disconnessioni dei dischi a caldo, ma devo dire che non l'ho mai provato. Il rack è anche dotato di una piccola ventolina per raffreddare gli HD/SDD, che non risulta affatto rumorosa.

I use my tower as a home lab server, and this adapter comes very handy in converting the front panel of my case into a hotplug bay. The price maybe it's a little bit high, but the finish and materials of this article seems to be really robust and of high quality. I've tested with many hard drives and it works pretty well, but maybe it would be a good idea to avoid 15k rpm drives at it will make a really high vibration sound.

Absolutamente satisfeito com esta bay. Colocada em um server central de registo de imagens composta por 9 camaras de segurança 4K a gravar 24H/24H. 4 discos em raid0 A funcionar na perfeição desde agosto 2023 sem problemas. só desligo por algumas horas de 6 em 6 meses para manutenção e limpeza.

This product simply excels in all I expected from it. You may have the idea it's just another cheap gimmick, I can tell you it's FAR from that. It's pretty well built, it looks cool, and it works just fine. Simply perfect My only suggestion is that you use straight SATA cables, not angled if possible (you can still install them, but they better be pretty flat)

I used this bay expander to add another four drives to my main PC. I had a number of 2.5" drives lying around, and with the purchase of a new PC I thought I should do something with them. Fitting the bay was easy, it slid straight into a vacant 5.25" single-height bay in the case. A single SATA power cable supplies all four drives. Each drive requires its own data cable. If you don't have enough free SATA ports on your motherboard you'll have to buy a SATA expansion card. It took only moments to fit the drives into the removable caddies, and the caddies slot into the front of the rack. It took less than 30 minutes from opening the box to booting the PC, now with an extra 12TB of storage. The rack was chosen specifically for its all-metal construction and that it could take 2.5" drives up to 15mm thick - I needed this as two of the drives were 4TB fat drives. I don't need the hot-swap function, so I haven't tested this aspect. Should be good for a RAID array though. This isn't a cheap solution, but it is a good solution that should last. Recommended.