ICY DOCK ExpressCage MB326SP-B Review

Storage/Other by stefan @ 2017-05-30

Are you working in an environment that does imply drive switching and/or hot-swapping on a daily manner such as digital forensics, drive recovery, drive testing for performance, virus scans, data cloning and more? ICY DOCK has another interesting solution named ExpressCage MB326SP-B that does come with active cooling and can fit no less than six 2.5’’ drives in a 5.25’’ bay. For even more compatibility, we can use drives with 5mm, 7mm & 9.5mm height, while the back 40mm fans can be easily replaced with other models, thanks to the included 3-pin power connectors.

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Packaging, A Closer Look Part I

In this article, we will concentrate our attention on another interesting product from ICY DOCK, and to be more exact the ExpressCage MB326SP-B, which is able to offer installation and hot-swap of no less than six 2.5’’ drives, while using a single 5.25’’ bay! Since we are talking about so many drives in a relatively small amount of space, the manufacturer is also using active cooling. Let’s dig in and see what ICY DOCK has prepared for us! The ExpressCage MB326SP-B is shipped inside a simple cardboard enclosure, with a drawing of the product on top, along with some small pictograms, which do show some of the main product highlights:

 

 

 

The airflow direction is shown on the side of the box:

 

 

 

The opposite area does explain that we are dealing again with a hassle-free tool-less 2.5’’ HDD/SSD installation procedure:

 

 

 

The more in-depth technical specifications can be spotted on the back side of the box:

 

 

 

Inside, we will find the main product, which is wrapped inside a transparent bubble-bag, so it won’t get damaged during transit:

 

 

 

Besides that, we are receiving screws for mounting the device inside the computer case, optional screws for the drives, but also an installation manual:

 

 

 

The manual does not only show the drive installation but also how to connect the cables in the back, along with the fan switch adjustment:

 

 

 

As we have seen with the other units, we are dealing with an all-black aluminum chassis, which does have a ventilation grill on the top area:

 

 

 

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