Is this Enclosure and HDD combi any good?

muhu · 17 Apr 2007 at 11:45

Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
Icy Box External Enclosure IB-360AStUS SATA + USB Combo

Total Including Delivery: £98.68

Appreciate any thoughts

rpstewart · 17 Apr 2007 at 12:01

Yeah nothing really wrong with either of those. One minor point with the caddy, if you want to swap between the eSATA and USB connections you need to open the case up and swap a cable on the drive.

muhu · 17 Apr 2007 at 12:36

That's not a prob, I've checked with my Mobo manual and it supports eSATA, so I will be using that.

Just to make doubley sure before purchase, I dragged this info from the Manufacturers website but this is for the 361 model and Overclockers sell the 360; will it have all the below spec?

Cheers 4 the help.

Extra Info from Manufacturers website (for searchers and me):
Smart EasySwap aluminium case for one 3,5” SATA hard disk
· Easy (EasySwap) exchange for your hard drive without tools
· Aluminium surface refinement, chrome last
· PnP & HotSwap
· On/Off switch for blue lighting
· Upright Stand, On/Off switch at the rear
· noiseless, without fan
· USB2.0 & eSATA interface
· eSATA Bracket, powersupply, datacable and socket in scope of supply
· Up to 1,5Gbit/s eSATA - up to 480Mb/s USB2.0
· No capacity limitation

rpstewart · 17 Apr 2007 at 12:45

http://www.nanopoint.co.uk/en/pages/products/external-cases_list.php?we_objectID=2714

That's the UK distributor's page for the 360, looks about the same although you may need to attack the 360 with a screwdriver.

muhu · 17 Apr 2007 at 14:24

Thanks for the info, think I may well be ordering those two then... Cheers!

muhu · 21 Apr 2007 at 00:46

Well, got these two products - the Drive was a DOA, so that has to go back.

The ICY Box, I'm not overly keen on, it looks like it has been used before, with definite scratches, will have to take a couple of photos.

Not really had a good experience with this recent purchase... has to be said that I've bought from OCUK before and everything has been cool, and they are happy to accept the returns too, just an extra hassle really.

jbloggs · 21 Apr 2007 at 03:33

I have this Icy Box, with a 320GB Seagate 7200.10, find it a very good combination, the Average read (HDTach) using eSATA is 68MB/s and with USB2, 35MB/s.

Rambaud · 21 Apr 2007 at 09:19

I have a couple of IcyBoxes - one is USB2 (for SATA drives) and the other is Firewire 400 & USB2 (for IDE drives).

The former has worked flawlessly with a 200Gb WD drive and a 400Gb Spinpoint drive.

The latter died after a few months and has been replaced under warranty. Unfortunately, I don't have any spare IDE drives, so I ordered yesterday 2 x Seagate 320Gb for £88.00 + Vat (inc delivery).