Built-in Hard Drive Rails with Solid Aluminum Construction
Screw-Less Design (No Tool Required)
(Optional Removable Cooling Fan)
Monday, April 09, 2007
ICY DOCK EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE STAND
Here at ICYDOCK we thrive off the feed back that our customers give our products. We present to the current customer (and future one’s) a concept in the making. A “minimalist” external hard drive stand that accommodates any old hard drives that you might have lying around (IDE or SATA).It uses a screw-less mounting technique to keep the hard drives in place. What do you think? What price range do you the customer think would be reasonable for a product like this? Do you see a need for a cost effective solution of this type? Please indulge us with your comments and let us start a discussion.
Built-in Hard Drive Rails with Solid Aluminum Construction
Screw-Less Design (No Tool Required)
(Optional Removable Cooling Fan)
Built-in Hard Drive Rails with Solid Aluminum Construction
Screw-Less Design (No Tool Required)
(Optional Removable Cooling Fan)
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Well, the only thing that comes to my mind about an external bay like this is, well, dust. I can see this thing being covered in lint and dust. Just my two cents.
ReplyDeleteI personally would not have a use for this, although appreciate that others might.
ReplyDeleteMost of my drives are replaced due to failure, as opposed to lack of space, so I tend not to have many (if any) spare, working drives kicking around.
Interesting idea, I have perhaps ~20 drives laying around from various other PC's and work machines. Question: How would you connect them back to the main machine? Would this be JBOD??
ReplyDeletethis is actually usefull if you have a single drive enclosure but use multiple drives that have trays installed on them....hopefully these will be stackable both vertically or horizontally (horizontal preferred)...
ReplyDeleteInteresting idea, it will be good for a backup application and use this cadie like a tape library.
ReplyDeleteThe problème will be : how to manage connectors and wires.
Umm...Personally I don't see a need for this type of stripped down enclosure. Somebody would have to have a lot of spare drives laying around to make use of this idea. Dust as mentioned would be a concern and what connection method also mentioned. Seems like quite a unique application to me.
ReplyDeleteI think more usefull would be a storagesolution for SATA-Drives used in trayless Dockingbays.. a closed tower with soft pads on the rails, protecting each hdd..
ReplyDeleteThere could be an optional backdoor to this tower, giving the user the opportunity to use it as you thought, a lowcost mass-hdd-tower, just by connecting sata-cables from the back..
I would certainly appreciate something like this. I have some 40 HDDs lying around that I connect via USB adapter whenever I need to retrieve some old file (I catalog everything with Whereisit). I recently bought a 4 level shoe rack which fits a total of 20 drives. But the shoe rack has lots of excess space between levels. Something like this would be perfect.
ReplyDeleteI have a MB452 and have misplaced the Power supply can you provide a part number or specks so I can order another one?
ReplyDeleteOr a picture of the lable side of the PS would go a long way in identifying it as i could send it to my friends to see if one of them took it by accident
Stewart.cormier@sympatico.ca
Consider making a cage to hold the 559 enclosure series. Also create a power connection that has one AC plug on one end and a hydra of connectors on the other to simplify power connection.
ReplyDeleteIt might be useful if the cage could be expandable or able to connect to other cages.
On another subject, please make IDE enclosures like the 559 series. I have a few legacy drives I would like to keep around.
Your 559 series enclosures run very cool, so it makes more sense to create farms of them, rather that buying an enclosure with 4 or 5 slots that heats up too much.
Thank you for offering this forum of idea exchange.
Harris
I for one have been looking for something like this for years. I rebuild computers for the needy and have more old harddrives then I do computers just laying around. I would buy something like this but as for pricing i wouldnt have any idea for what to say to charge for it.
ReplyDeleteI definately have a use for this type of enslosure. I test hundreds of hard drives and recently built a station to test ATA hard drives 8at a time. It would be most convenient to be able to slide the drives in and out without first attaching slide rails. This would allow for quick removal and installation between batch runs.
ReplyDeleteWhat I would rather see is your current Multi-Bay eSata go screwless and add a single eSata connector instead of the 4 port eSata. Increase the bays to 5 so that you can fit a bigger and quieter 120mm fan (replacable of course, so that we can choose a better more expensive aftermarket one if we choose). Now that would be an impressive product.
ReplyDeleteNever would we need to buy another caddy and mess with screws.