ICY BOX IB-390 Series
Packaging
The IB-390 came to TWL in the standard peripheral box with no frills. The box showed an image of the product and listed a few of the features, which are listed on the previous page. We opened the box and found the product packaged fairly well for shipment. The cartridge which holds the hard disk was very well protected where the docking station was simply tucked underneath with very little protection. The docking station, though pretty ridged, was not damaged and would have to take a pretty good hit before anything would happen to it, since the docking station is made out of a thick plastic. The rest of the components were wrapped in bubble wrap or were in plastic bags depending on if it was a power supply or the screws to hold the hard drive in place.
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The case that holds the hard drive was shipped in a plastic bag and suspend in foam. Just next to it is the power supply in bubble wrap. |
The case shown again had the docking station tucked underneath without any protection. |
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Closer look:
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The IB-390, as listed earlier, comes with docking station that is to be installed in the 5.225 drive bay od your PC. The SATA drive of your choice gets mounted in the drive case, as shown below. The prosess of opening the drive case is something very different from other portable drives on the market today. The IB-390 drive case comes with a quick release design. Using the provided key (if lost one can substitute with a flat hard screw driver), you can open the drive case in under a minute. Also, if you choose to mount the hard drive inside the case, with the provided plastic clip, you would be able to swap out hard drives in a matter of a few minutes as apposed to others, which require the use of a phillips screw drivers and having to deal with screws of multiple sizes and risking losing one or more of them.
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The hard drive is mounted with two of the four phillips head screws |
The plastic clip holding the hard drive in place if the user chooses. This setup would allow the user to swap out hard drives quicker and without the need for a screw driver. |
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The key shown above is used to release the locking mechanism on the back of the hard drive case. certainly something which will get misplaced over time, but can be replaced by a flat head screw driver of like shaped object. |
Additional screws, cables and key. |
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Close up of the back of the docking station where the hard drive case connects its power and SATA. |
With the hard drive case slightly ejected from the docking station, we can see here the eject lever, which is used to un-seat the hard drive. |
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