StarTech.com 2 Drive 2.5in Trayless Hot Swap SATA Mobile Rack Backplane - Dual Drive SATA Mobile Rack Enclosure for 3.5 HDD (HSB220SAT25B)

This is a great addition to the floppy 3.5 tray in PC cases that furnish them. Great for swapping SSD drives for various reasons. Makes things so convenient. A little pricey for what it is, but comes with cables and a good amount of accessories. Would be nice to have a choice of one without cables etc. I think we all have an abundance of Sata cables if we are honest. However, very good and robust.

Quality accessory. Very useful if you want to have several OSs running without partitioning a single drive. I connected the top drive and used the bottom one to store the dormant one. This means no fiddling with the bios to choose a boot drive. I simply turn the power off and remove the plug before changing out the drive (this possibly isn't strictly necessary). Super product. Very versatile for flexibility. Obviously this could be used in more than one scenario. I needed another Win 7 install to run a game that doesn't work with Win 10. I used a spare SSD drive. My system uses a boot drive with the OS etc and then a storage drive that is a conventional HDD. This works well for a multi OS system because all your docs are available regardless of which boot drive you use. I bought the 3.5 inch without having the structure for a 3.5 drive so I used an adaptor from Maplin (which I already had) to bring it up to 5.25. This took a bit of trial and error to fit. Honestly, how long has it been since PCs used floppy drives? So why make things in 3.5 inch? Having said that it was my bad for ordering the 3.5 version. The power LED is blue and activity shown in a contrasting colour. You could possibly leave the 4 pin connector undone if you didn't want that flashing (being quite bright). All cables and screws included. I used the power cable which uses a standard molex plug to convert for the Sata power and has a 4 pin branch for the LED power. I also used one of the sata cables that come with it rather than my existing sata cable. I disconnected it from the motherboard and connected it to the unit, then pushed the unit into the case and then re-connected the cable back to the motherboard. That was just to save stress on the motherboard connector but it also made it easy to connect to the unit; access to which would otherwise to quite awkward. My boot time appears to be slightly faster, so I wonder if the included cable was slightly better quality than the my existing one.

A great product and deliver exactly what is promised. Well constructed and easy to mount.The only con is the use of two power connectors (the engineers should have thought of shunting the power plug)

The best things come in small packages. These are great little devices for SSDs as well as standard 2½" HDDs. They are neat, well designed, robust and come with all the cables etc that are needed. I used the Akasa 2½"/3½" - 5¼" Mounting Adaptor which enables them to be mounted in a standard 5¼" slot.I like the individual activity LEDs which I found worked on several SSDs apart from one. Using one of these units you can change operating systems very easily if you have each mounted on a separate SSD or HDD. I like to separate my Operating System from my own data as much as possible so I use the upper unit for a 120GB SSD with the operating system and the lower one for my personal data on a 1TB standard 2½" drive. Then, after switching off, it is a simple matter to remove both drives leaving the computer completely secure.They are good units but I wouldn't pay more than about £28. The price does fluctuate so wait until they drop to about £26 if you can.

Bought this to allow me to boot up a cheap rebuilt PC with a new MB so I can play with different operating systems without the worry of overwriting boot loaders or having to worry about UEFI or legacy boot. Virtual systems are great for testing but nothing beats a real system. Great for playing with different operating systems just slide in a cheap SSD with the OS of your choice. Too soon to say how long it will last but it does seem well built. Fitted in an old case that had space for a CD/DVD ROM. I would now consider this for use on my main system as it would allow a very easy way to do a bulk backup.

Completely outclassed by the Icy Dock MB324SP-B. StarTech is the quintessential DNA of The Chosened Minter. Time this was retired if only because the drive ejection mechanism was perhaps designed during a heavy bout of Bird's Nest Soup ingestion. Perhaps. Never felt better awarding such an egotistically-driven one-star. Yes, truly wasted mah munay.

Caddy is well made and installed easily, but the huge issue for me is that the board and Windows 10 can not see it or any ssd inserted into it.I went through all the various settings in bios and nothing worked.Nothing wrong with my drives as connected directly to the board the bios and OS see them and can access content.The only thing the caddy is useful for me for is to keep the ssd's powered thus avoiding data loss over time.I contacted the seller a few times and got zero reply.On that basis, I can not recommended this product at all.

Great product, and well thought out, even with plastic protectors for the rear pins so they do not become damaged or bent, only issue if any which is minor is the stick on protection for the Hard Drives, you only get two of these so if you plan on swapping drives around a fair bit you may have to find some more protectors, considering the quick easy access to the front I would have thought they would have come up with another solution or thrown a few more in the box. Other than that an excellent product.

This works great mounted on the front of PC, I'm able to swap out SSD's pretty much at anytime. You might also need the Star Tech BRACKETFDBK 3.5 Inch Hard Drive to 5.25 Inch Front Bay Bracket Adapter.

Ottimo prodotto per chi cerca d'installare più HDD (nel mio caso SSD) sfruttando l'unità 2.5" inutilizzata dei floppy disk.Adatto anche per workstation o pc di marca dove lo spazio d'installazione di più hard disk è ridotto. Completo di cavetteria alimentazione sata e pata. Testata la facilità di rimozione e installazione SSD allo spegnimento del pc in pochi secondi senza aprire il case.

Es un producto que puede parecer caro comparado con otros que existen, pero TIENES LO QUE PAGAS...Es un producto Duro para uso profesional. Este es la cuarta unidad que he comprado, todas funcionando sin problemas, metiendo y sacando SSD de forma habitual, y sin problemas ni falsos contactos.Es totalmente metalico con un alto nivel de acabado, certificado ISO 9001, (lo garantizo absolutamente)...Esta unidad es muy util; Si solo tienes un PC, y necesitas tener separado 2 sistemas operativos, 1 con los programas cargados que quieres para el uso diario de internet-ofimatica, y otro SSD para Editar video profesional, o mezclar, masterizar audio: Tan solo sacas el SSD, y metes el otro SSD, y tienes un PC completamente diferente en segundos...Ningun producto de este tipo te garantiza que funcione con SATA 3, los fabricantes se cubren las espaldas porque si el cable no es bueno te puede bajar la velocidad a SATA 2. Este me ha funcionado en las 4 unidades compradas a SATA 3, comprobado con cristalmark, me da las velocidades que indica el fabricante de los SSD, por lo tanto esta funcionando sin dudas en SATA3...Necesitas un adaptados de plastico de 3.5 a 5.25 https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B000HLZXH2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1Estoy muy contento con esta marca, y la recomiendo sin dudas...

Si vos disques 2.5 pouces surtout pour les disques SSD, ne sont pas nomades, installez les dans ce rack 2 tiroirs 2.5".Ils seront alors accessibles instantanément au moment où vous pensez à faire des sauvegardes (on n'en fait jamais trop) sans manipulation.

It fits nicely in a floppy drive bay. Works as expected. The only thing I am wary of is the hot-swap feature. There is no off button; normally a proper off button would cause the memory cache to be committed to the drive and then the drive would spin down and turn off. This device just has the eject button which disengages the drive immediately. So if you eject the drive before all the memory cache has been committed to the drive, you run the risk of damaging files. This really needs to be tested so I'm not deducting any stars.