A Closer Look
Before we dive into the benchmarks, let’s take a look at the AMMO enclosure.
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Not much decoration here, though the M*A*S*H-style font is a nice touch. Here’s an enclosure, it’s for 2.5″ SATA hard drives, and that’s all folks. The back is similarly spare, with the specs and features in a pair of columns.
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The utilitarian layout continues to the inside, with cardboard inserts holding things in place and a plastic bag keeping the loose bits in place. With those removed, we see what IN-WIN has bundled in: the enclosure itself, a USB cable, manual, screwdriver and RFID tags. Opening the manual up, we come upon a little bonus: when you’re done figuring out how to install the drive, you can use the manual as a target down at the firing range.
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Not much to say here, the stamped sheet-metal look speaks for itself.
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The USB port and power adapter socket are hidden behind a rubber flap when not in use, which helps to cut back on dust and dirt getting in. With the back plate off, we can get a good look at the rubber shock mount, which contains the SATA->USB adapter. This fits snugly into the outer shell, and provides vibration damping as well as shock protection—handy if you’ve got a noisy 7200 RPM drive. Looking at the bottom, we see the RFID transponder spot, which glows red or green at appropriate times to indicate the state of the drive’s encryption.
[…] Quote: There are a lot of hard drive enclosures out there. No, really! Go punch "USB HDD enclosure" into Google or NewEgg some time, you’ll be buried in them. This makes it rather hard for any one enclosure to have much success. Generally, the only way to stand out is to make it a funny shape, or offer some unusual feature. IN-WIN have decided to do both with the AMMO 2.5" HDD enclosure, shaping it like the magazine of an AR-15 and offering hardware-based encryption with RFID token-based access. Is this combination enough to make it worth your while? Let’s find out. LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/in-win-ammo-usb-hard-drive-enclosure/ […]
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[…] Quote: There are a lot of hard drive enclosures out there. No, really! Go punch "USB HDD enclosure" into Google or NewEgg some time, you’ll be buried in them. This makes it rather hard for any one enclosure to have much success. Generally, the only way to stand out is to make it a funny shape, or offer some unusual feature. IN-WIN have decided to do both with the AMMO 2.5" HDD enclosure, shaping it like the magazine of an AR-15 and offering hardware-based encryption with RFID token-based access. Is this combination enough to make it worth your while? Let’s find out. LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/in-win-ammo-usb-hard-drive-enclosure/ […]
[…] Quote: There are a lot of hard drive enclosures out there. No, really! Go punch "USB HDD enclosure" into Google or NewEgg some time, you’ll be buried in them. This makes it rather hard for any one enclosure to have much success. Generally, the only way to stand out is to make it a funny shape, or offer some unusual feature. IN-WIN have decided to do both with the AMMO 2.5" HDD enclosure, shaping it like the magazine of an AR-15 and offering hardware-based encryption with RFID token-based access. Is this combination enough to make it worth your while? Let’s find out. LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/in-win-ammo-usb-hard-drive-enclosure/ […]
[…] Quote: There are a lot of hard drive enclosures out there. No, really! Go punch "USB HDD enclosure" into Google or NewEgg some time, you’ll be buried in them. This makes it rather hard for any one enclosure to have much success. Generally, the only way to stand out is to make it a funny shape, or offer some unusual feature. IN-WIN have decided to do both with the AMMO 2.5" HDD enclosure, shaping it like the magazine of an AR-15 and offering hardware-based encryption with RFID token-based access. Is this combination enough to make it worth your while? Let’s find out. LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/in-win-ammo-usb-hard-drive-enclosure/ […]
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