Kingwin Tray-Less Hot Swap Mobile Rack Cage for Dual 2.5" SSD/HDD. Hard Drive Backplane Enclosure, Supports SATA I/II/III & SAS I/II 6 Gbps Performance

I purchased two of these bays for a Mac Pro case mod - I wanted something that didn't take up too much space, but would provide hookups for 2 x 2.5" drives, and this fit the bill. QUALITY/DESIGN This really is surprisingly well-made for the price, with a mostly-metal construction. The tray-less design is simple yet effective, and the eject mechanism is among the best I have seen - you simply unlock the front tab and pull out! The bay comes with two 3M stickers to help avoid electrical shorts through the metal cage - a nice thought, although not so convenient for those of us that switch drives often. I think a thin plastic coating on the cage would have been better! The dual-color LEDs are not too bright, showing blue for power and a pinkish-red for drive activity. The bay boasts a 50,000 drive insertion rate - hopefully I will NEVER get close to this figure, but it's nice to know it was built to last. Included are two power adapters that go give power to your SATA drives and have a 4-pin connector to power the bay. They are standard molex connectors, not SATA, so keep this in mind when choosing the bay. The key lock feature is nice, but something that I won't use. FUNCTIONALITY Not much to say here - I plugged in the power and SATA cables and each drive was recognized without issue. As far as I understand, these support SATA3 speeds (seeing as they are simply providing an extended connection), and my boot drive (Mushkin SSD) is running at around 250MB/s which is just about right for that drive. OVERALL I chose this bay because it was cheaper than others, but I'm actually very pleased with the overal quality and design. I have added a customer image of one of these bays "in action", so you can see how unimposing these bays are. A great way to add 2 x 2.5" drives to your rig, and highly recommended! Now to swap out the LEDs without ruining the thing...

Purchased to use in the 3.5" boot drive slot in a Corsair Obsidian Series 800D. The mounting brackets do not line up with the plastic slide rails for the case. The holes seem to be aligned to fit the 3.5" bay for floppy drives. It would be perfect if there were more mounting holes so that it would fit any configuration. Outstanding quality and very happy with the unit itself. I decided to use a converter to mount into an available 5.25" slot and it works great. Very solid feel to the doors. For use with the SSD cards that I am using there is no need for the plastic insulators. Those are only if you are using the laptop sized HDD cards. I found that all the connectors and construction are tight and solid. I feel good about the quality. CONS: not enough to take away any stars There is no power switch. This isn't a major problem but it is a nice feature that I have on one other hot swap dirve. Mounting brackets for mounting to the rails in the bay don't align with my case. It worked fine with the converter so I don't think it's an issue with the product. PRO: Why I give it 5 stars Great quality with a very sturdy feel Looks good with my tower case and latches are easy to use Works great with SSD drives which is why I purchased it Easy to install using a standard 3.5" to 5.25" conversion tray

Great product, work as described.

I bought this alongside a new Kingston 3k SSD 240gb for my older ASRock X58 SATA II built system. I already had a hot swappable drive for my HDD that I love I thought if I was going to go the SSD route, I should have a similar tray for my SSD. Once I opened the packaging I was delighted to see the construction seemed pretty solid as some other reviewers have noted. The install into the 3.5" bay was a little tricky, but mostly due to my case, not because of this tray. Once I figured out how the mounting holes lined up and got everything wired up it operated perfectly. I am knocking 1 star off for the limited installation hole alignment. Although the holes did eventually line up I would have preferred an adjustable rail or something that allows the tray to be installed a little for "forward" sitting in my case so it aligned with my other HDD tray and optical drive. Since the 3.5" bays are below my 5" bays and since the tray itself is more "sunken in" than the other devices, it's hard to see this tray compared to the others. Maybe newer full system cases do not have this problem any more and maybe I could have adjusted my other devices to be more "sunken in," but since I got it working I didn't want to mess with it any more. As far as quality of the tray itself I feel it's pretty solid and my drive slides in and the connectors in the back aligns perfectly. Some other reviewers noted the stickers you need to place on your SSD to ensure the bottom exposed controller board on your SSD does not short out against the tray. The Kingston drive I bought was completely sealed all around so I did not worry about this sticker thing, which I agree is hokey, if you do need to use it. I can definitely see a the next redesign of this tray should avoid using stickers entirely. I am very happy with this product for the price once it was installed. Since my system is SATA II I cannot testify to SATA III capability for this tray.

This is a nice little well-constructed device to hot swap two 2.5 drives like notebook hard drives or SSSs. I am using it to hold my main OS drive so I can easily swap out the system's main hard drive. It's working fine with my Intel 180GB 330 series 6 Gbps SSD. The device is powered using older 4-pin molex power connectors that convert to SATA power connectors with a split for a small device-specific power connector that probably powers the LEDs on the device. Perhaps you can just plug in a straight SATA power connector if you don't want or need the LEDs. The negatives for me are: * Uses an externally accessible 3.5 in bay which I didn't have in my Corsair 600T case so I had to purchase a 5.25" to 3.5" bay converter and this significantly increases the price * Installation was a bit more complicated than expected But overall a very handy device worthy of 5 stars.

This is a well constructed drive bay for 2.5" drives. It worked perfectly with my SSD drive. It is easy to open and remove or replace the drive. It does have a locking key but locking with the key does not make any electrical connections so if you don't worry about accidentally opening the door the key is not needed. I mounted this in a larger opening on the front of my computer. It would be nice if it came with the larger rail mounts and a face plate for larger openings. Fortunately I had what I needed in the junk box. I would buy this again as it works well.

This device is very well made. You can tell by the pictures it is made of quality metal and the parts are well designed and fit nice. I'd recommend this highly.

1 - Solid and nice looking. It will not work if you connect to a SATA III port to a SATA III SSD, however, it is backward compatible with SATA II port. 2 - Only one connector for the front power LED while there are 2 bays for the unit. I ended up returning this product and order this: Vantec 2.5-Inch Dual Bay Trayless SATA III - 6G Mobile Rack (MRK-225S6-BK) Which has the same look and design, 2 power connectors for front LED and will work with SATA III.

Excellente Qualité, solide, facile a installer, tout à fait ce que je recherchait.

Funciona a la perfección, es de metal muy resistente, la única mejora desde mi punto de vista que sugeriría es que ya no utilicen los conectores antiguos para los led, por lo demás cumplió todas las expectativas.

Nicely made product, fast delivery also.

Sirve bien para lo que fue diseñado, los discos entra sin problema y funciona bien. Solo faltó indicar que en los gabinetes modernos que no traen bahía para disco floppy se requiere de un adaptador para poder colocarlos en la bahía de un disco CD-DVD. Como esta: StarTech.com 3.5in Hard Drive to 5.25in Front Bay Bracket Adapter

Excellent rack to be able to quickly swap SSD drives or 2.5 drives. Be aware that if your power supply unit does not have spare Molex cables left only SATA you might need a couple of Sata to LP4 power cable adapters to be able to turn on the LED for the drives. I just wish there was a lid to cover the rack to avoid collecting dust. Overall I'm very happy with my purchase, It's a great deal for its price.