Hot Swap Your HDD/SSD like a Floppy Disk?! - ICY DOCK MB795SP-B Review
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
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PC case design has changed a lot over the years. While reminiscing about the cool top loading SATA bay of my old Cooler Master 690 II Advanced on Twitter, ICY DOCK reached and offered a PC case enclosure which allows you to swap hard drives and SSDs like you could with floppy disks.
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Hotswapping drives has always been an amazing thing for datahoarders like myself. What's puzzling for me is the wasted space where the 5.25" bays used to be in cases. its a natural progression move all harddrives and storage devices into what used to be the 5.25 bay area's and fee up the bottom of the case for pumps, reservious, radiations and PSU's.
Back in the early 2000's, pre-builds with hot swappable HDD are the coolest thing back then, because back then there is no RGB, see-trough panel, even top of the line "Gaming PC" are look the same as typical office PC.
Just added their 4 hot swap 2.5" SSD Flexi Dock to two of my systems. Function exactly as described. Very pleased with their solutions.
You would like my Coolermaster HAF XM, which has two SATA "hotswap" removable HDD caddies that the control board allows freely pulling and fitting any SATA HDD's on the fly, it also enables the ability to run extra HDD's as the case can hold up to ten storage drives as well as 3 opticals. The drives both the hot swap and the fixed ones are cooled by a massive 240mm fan, I have 1 nvme SSD and 4 HDD's running at mo with two in the hot swap caddies as I can use them for extra storage in another machine.
They should replace the CD drives in your average computer with this, instead.
They are currently replaced by nothing in most... cases. It would be more like we should be using the 5.25 bays again!
What if games can be sold on SSD Cartridges? That would be cool. Only if people supported physical media because no one wants to own media for some very weird reason.
@@stewbanker the games industry has groomed an entire generation of consumers into accepting digital media
@@SlickOnTop That's so true. Even physical media that currently exists (Console games) are not so physical media, because you need to literally download them.
@@stewbanker that would be a waste of media
Used a similar product 15 or so years ago. It was USB based, had trays that the 3.5” drives fit in. It worked well. I used the product for doing backups.
I like this product. It’s an upgrade to what I had. I had to be careful with the HDD’s - fragile. With SSD’s you don’t have to be quite as careful.
Good review.
I remember installing Win95 from what felt like 1000000 floppy drives. But they are so fast to exchange it was kinda nice... not just staring at a loading bar :P
I have been looking for some cheap 5.25'' bays for hotswappable games drives between systems for testing. I do have a really old ICY Dock 3.5'' one which sits flush when you hook it in, but i need a kensington lock to unlock the fan and activity lights but it does still work. I think with cases with front covers or any, the protrusion especially the 2.5" for me is a gamebreaker. it would have been nice if it was flush so i don't accidentally knock it. Just wish the price was a little lower for what is a 5.25" bay cage with sata slots considering someone may buy multiple to hotswap between a main and other computer(s).
Actually... You JUST saved my bacon as I have a DIRECT NEED RIGHT NOW that I've been stuck into a quandry in for over a MONTH!!! Thanks bro!
ha ! great to see my Antec 900 (mine is the USB 2 model) . in my Antec 900, i have a Thermaltake N0023SN Max 4, for a 3.5" drive and a Vantec NexStar SE mrk-525st, to take 2 x 2.5" drives.
very old system that i rescued from the ewaste at work back in 2011, it rocks an original i7 and an ASUS MoBo that is only SATA 2. But it is still fairly reliable and runs both my Linux Mint and Windows 10.
because of the ease of swapping the 2.5" SSD's from the Vantec drive bay, i can switch OS's in under a minute, INCLUDING REBOOT !!
i could also install W10 on an additional SSD for the boy to run his own OS for gaming, on the same rig without buying another rig and not giving him access to my W10 to keep the bugs away.
Sounds like a really useful back up option… modern version of tape backup drives 🤔👍
I don't care about looks I pick my case on functionality. I pick EVERYTHING on function. Even my hard drives are specialized. I need that to maintain TCP-AI (Aka internet)
It is SO hard to find functional cases now, since 99% of cases are made with glass sides and enough RGB LEDs to light a xmas tree. Unfortunately that's what sells, so even though it's mostly adults who buy and build, it appears most adults jizz their pants over the glass and LEDs like a 11yr old boy.... :-( I am NOT looking forward to the next time I have to buy a case, that's for sure. I'm going to keep re-using the two Thermaltake midtowers I have had for years for as long as possible, because they ARE functional.
Same here. I want the best function from.my pc, not a reenactment of a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind .
I have the same OCZ-Drive and mine fits barely in the 2,5" slot when carefully moving it inside, though it neither works there nor when trying it in the 3,5" slot, seems it's outdated in every possible way. Thank you for the good and thorough review 💚
Imagine if external HDDs and SSDs were the size of a floppy disk. The possibilities are limited, but will look very cool.
Personally I prefer SATA over USB. I have many HDDs, especially 3,5" high capacity, using hot swap since many years. With all of my motherboeards and most additional PCIe to SATA cards SATA Hot Plug is very stable while USB like to disconnect.
The MB795SP looks a bit cheap IMHO, I prefer the IB-174SSK-U (or many very similar competitors products), which I use for years at my job. Only disadvantages are there´s only one switch for 2,5 and 3,5.
But keep in mind that a 7200rpm 3,5" HDD gets maybe to warm in a longer run. In this case I like the big IPC ST-3525 with cooling fan
Strange thing in your review is the low write speed, normally I would think if I have 2 SATA connectors there are a direct contact and not some kind of bridge chip
I'm 2 years looking for something like this !!!!!
I need something like this for moving an SSD Steam library from one machine to another. Currently using a USB 3.0 enclosure, but the speed is not as fast as a direct SATA connection according to SSD benchmarking tools.
usb3 gen1 only does 500mb/s max, but your ssd on both ends has to be able to handle that as well.
THIS is exactly what I've been looking for!
These are really handy devices, especially if you have a lot of computer projects on the go. I have one in my general purpose retro PC
nice touch with mass effect galaxy maps backsound
I've take a lian li 3 X 3.5' drives on a 3 X 5.25 case that got pre instaled a 12cm fan and fit it in a case that got a 2 X 2.5 drives on a 3.5' slot case pre instaled and I got 5 hot swap slots of both sizes for realy cheap! liked that feature and the speeds that provided but now looks like prices are risen in this category. Cases should use some specialized space with easy access to put some multisize bays
Is there one that is 3.5?
Why do we not live in a world where you can change a ssd like a PlayStation disc?!
Cool product!
Have a good week!
Great video! Just what I was looking for. I subscribed and gave a thumbs up.
Super handy.
I really like my icy dock
Amazing idea !! But that probably doesn't ship here to the slum jungle, so I'll have to get creative and build one for myself! Wish I had a 3D printer though
I use this drive bay adapters an all my machines, also 2 on machine (they're cheap on Ali). I also get tons of used 500GB/1TB drives for free, so I make backups of everything.
Should one system drive fail, I'll be back in business in 5min. 😎
sharkoon has had their Quick Port docks for years, been using them for the last decade at least.
my old antec gamer 200 case has that sata drive hot swap ability. ... probably should use it more then i do but its there.
This is a good solution for a home server!
Hello my friend. I really enjoyed this video and i also like that adaptor. The things you can do with 5,25" is amazing. Also i wonder what system do you use?
Thanks! My system is an old Sandy Bridge -based i7-2600K machine with a Z68 motherboard and GTX 1080.
@@FullyBuffered i love old system like yours. Old is better. #x58gang
@@FullyBuffered what i've been wanting to do is a rdx imation type thing, but open standard format using laptop ssd or mechanical drives inside a full size hdd shell, problem is finding a hotswap tray shell/enclosure that has shock absorption like the rdx cartridges have. This would minimize the wear on the drive connectors from the in and out ports and keep the drive safer, not to mention the metal shell can pull some heat. Do you know of a good combo to do this. And can you recommend a hot swap dock for internal install as well as a good solid stand alone desk top solution (i'm a metal construction fan like you). Thanks in advance.
So I modded one of these by literally just prying out the plastic bit inside the sata connector that stops a SAS drive being inserted into this enclosure and it works perfectly obviously with a SAS controller and that gives me hot swappable SAS/SATA out of the server im using with along with a LTO tape drive really useful to move data from/to but it's a shame icy dock didn't make it SAS compatible out of the box :(
Drop the music loop please.
For the true pro
Are you Dutch? I just saw the Dutch message to eject the storage drives. "Uitwerpen of loskoppelen"...
Damn i remember that my parents old pc had this kind of thing but for ide hdds and it was like more a drawer thing
Yeah I totally got a pile of cheap notebook 2.5 hdds and label stickers for storing movies on and I use them like floppies. Right now 500GB notebook drives are cheapers storage per GB, even cheaper than burning blu ray and much faster. I got much nicer HDD bay though, this one looks super cheap and flimsy.
I have a friend who gave me ~75 500GB hard drives from retired laptops. My case has a built-in SATA dock for 3.5 and 2.5 drives. I use the drives to back up all the TV series and movies that have come out since I stopped buying DVDs/Blu-Rays onto.
I have a 5.25" bay converter from Athena Power that fits 4 2.5" drives. It's all metal and the drives have to be screwed onto small sleds and then slid into the unit. Originally I was going to put 4 of the 500GB laptop drives in it, but then decided to put my 240GB boot SSD and 3 2TB SSDs in it instead. It has worked perfectly, but I never use the swap ability. I think if they were used for swapping a lot, the SATA connections wouldn't take a long time to wear out, but that is just my guess. I got mine when it was on sale for an insanely low price at Newegg. I have another free 5.25" bay and wish I knew how much I was going to love it so I would have ordered two instead. The regular price of all these 5.25/3.5" converters are too expensive IMHO.....
Is there anything that locks or holds the drive in place once you turn the power on?
I'd be concerned that if the pc isn't completely flat, and so the front might be angled down slightly then the vibration could cause the drive to slide out of the connection while in use.
Wow this is the product i was looking for. Im currently planing to build a "console" pc with steamOS. Im planing to have 2 2.5 ssds as little carts that have steamOS and windows. Does any one know if this is actually possible?
From my owne expiriens those edaptors dont play well with seagate hdds and you need to put a hdd befor turning on the pc aftter that you can remove it and use others
I just got one and it works fine with my Seagate Barracuda HDD.
But can you boot off of it? I think it is likely and it would be amazing if so. I may order one and take my chances trying.
I see no reason why that shouldn’t work!
As long as you are using the motherboard's SATA ports it should definitely work. It's when you get into using PCI-e SATA cards that it becomes a game of some do/some don't. I have a PCI-e SATA card with 4 drives connected to it, but have never tried booting from them. My boot SSD is connected to the motherboard SATA. But I know that the card supports ACPI, so it would work with a unit like the one in this video.
I've been using what I guess is a knock-off by 'Icybox', also 2.5" and 3.5", which seems to have been discontinued (can only see single bay versions now). It's held up with light use, I'd guess a few dozen insert/eject cycles of both bays over about 6 months. One caveat is that if both are used simultaneously the 2.5" drive (the upper bay) can get too warm for comfort (only tried that once). Apart from offline storage I use it for defragmentation - actual defragging is something I've _never_ done and might be part of the reason I've never had an HDD fail in 23-odd years since I started using and building PC's - it absolutely hammers the read arm. Instead I just the copy the entire contents to another drive (and back if needed). Back in the day (i.e. when PC's were beige) 5.25" HDD caddies were very common (out of necessity given their capacity).
So they build a product that only supports 7mm 2,5" HDDs, looks like OCZ used the 9mm height and weren't there even 12mm 2,5" HDDs!? Pretty weak....
please install linux mint and see if it works .
Background music is so irritating.
Dude why are you whispering
Dutch apartments are small and the walls are paper-thin.
I don't know about the P8Z68-V but the Marvell controller on my P8P67 has SATA hotswap support and there's no setting for it, seems that the Z68 has the same controller though.