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Installation Ease
Customers are highly satisfied with the ease of installation for this StarTech mobile rack enclosure, describing it as a breeze to install despite some requiring additional accessories. They appreciate its solid construction and well-designed features.
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Drive Compatibility
Customers have generally positive feedback regarding the drive compatibility of the StarTech.com mobile rack enclosure, with most noting that it works well with various SATA drives and is easy to swap out. However, some users mention slight challenges in ensuring a snug fit due to varying drive sizes. The product comes with necessary screws and power/signal cables for installation, and features solid doors and LED indicators.
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Quality
Easy installation, fluid mechanics and solid construction.
It appears solidly built and was easy to install (i build machines sometimes so it was easy for me at least).
My second one is already showing problems, with the connectors wearing out due to daily hot-swapping, less than one year after purchase.
I bought this for swapping a backup drive and the included sticker made by 3m will not work for me.
Price
At $72 for 320 gb (late 2009), wd scorpio black 2.
I judge this to be excellent service for the money.
Shipping
No fun getting a new toy and having to wait while the bay adapter is shipped.
Packaging/appearance
Oddly, the box my mobile-rack came in only said it supported sata2 speeds.
Competitiveness
I definitely like thesei can't say whether or not similar devices as these from other manufacturers are better, but so far (ove... Read More
I did a lot of research on all the available products and the startech seemed the best for operation and construction.
In addition to this dock, i bought models from dshot and vantec.
Alternatively, go ahead and purchase, record, and store 71 dvd disks.
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bay, easy, daily, floppy and second. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 244 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 9 2025.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you think youd like to have two 500gb drives slipped into your computers floppydisk 1
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The red becomes magenta as it mixes with the blue led which is on all the time a drive is installed in the bay
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If you dont need extra internal drive space dont bother but if you would like removable storage for offline backup esp
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
At 72 for 320 gb late 2009 wd scorpio black 2
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
We have the same setup at the office to back up our server
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Every night before i leave the office i swap out the lower drive with another ssd drive and take the daily copy off site home
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Ive had to access information off the drive before from home so i set up a similar system there
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