Summary: Xigmatek Secure USD01 offers a hard drive docking bay compatible with both 2.5” and 3.5” SATA drives. The great compatibility together with its great connectivity makes this unit one of the most attractive solutions if you are looking for a docking station for internal hard drives.
INTRODUCTION
You have probably already seen them; the new docking solutions for internal hard drives. Manufacturers figure we cannot make do with normal external hard drives. Before doing this review I really didn’t get the point of these docking stations so I thought to myself; why no test one of these products out?
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Summary: Icy Dock has an interesting hard drive case which lets us mount 2.5 inch SSD hard drives (or normal mechanical 2.5 inch drives) in conventional desktop chassis. In other words it converts a 2.5 inch SATA150 or SATA300 drive to a 3.5 inch SATA drive.
INTRODUCTION
Until recently there was no point in installing 2.5 inch drives in desktop cases. These drives couldn’t compete with the 3.5 inch drives either in performance or price. With the SSDs now dropping in price the scene has somewhat changed or is at least undergoing a change. If you are building a HTPC or something similar you may actually want a SSD in it to make it more silent, faster or for whatever reason. Now as most desktop cases, even smaller HTPC cases, only supports 3.5 inch drives, you will need some kind of converting hard drive enclosure if you want to install a 2.5 inch hard drive. And this is where the Icy Dock MB882 case comes in.
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