Syba SY-MRA55006 5.25" Bay Tray Less Mobile Rack for 3.5" and 2.5" Sata III HDD with Extra 2 Port USB 3.0, Black/White

Ordered this from Amazon.co.uk, and this was shipped from Amazon.com via the Amazon Global service, I wish more products did this, it was well worth it! I bought an HP Prodesk 600 G1 SFF and wanted to turn it into a budget gaming PC. After building it into a Coolermaster M-ATX case (using the necessary adapters to allow for use with a standard ATX PSU) I wanted to make use of as many components from the original HP case as possible, including the Laptop DVD drive. This was PERFECT for what I wanted, not only does it let you use a slim laptop drive in a desktop (and it mounts firmly), but the 2.5" HDD Rack makes access to my SSD effortless. And the button/catch to release the HDD is nice and firm too, so accidently bumping it isn't a problem. Of course, the two USB 3.0 ports are just gravy. It also has blue LED's on the front, when there's a HDD in it, its lit up blue, and when that HDD is accessed, it flashes purple (probably a red LED mixing with the blue light). All in all, very pleased with this, does everything it says it does, and does it well with great build quality. If you need to use a laptop dvd drive in a desktop, and want some extra addons like a HDD tray and some usb ports, you can't go wrong with this!

A well made piece of equipment that allows multi use of a PC case slot. The only complaint is they don't mention the need for a slimline SATA cable adapter for the DVD drive.

As an item itself it works really well but the slot positions are not deep enough and as such it just floats above them and with hard disks in starts to sag. The bracket just needs to be redesigned so it would sit lower as PCI slots are industry standard depths. It's a pity with what could be an excellent idea

This is a pretty slick little item. The issue i had was when i first installed it neither of my disks would register. I tore this thing apart and manually pushed the SSD into the circuit board and it lit up and functioned properly. I thought at first that the front panel wasn't putting enough pressure to push the drive into the slot but after screwing with it for a while i realized that the SSDs are probably thinner than regular hard drives and it probably wasn't lining up with the pins in the back correctly. I flipped this device upside down so that gravity would put the SSD on the other side of the slot and it functioned properly. So... SSDs are thinner than regular hard drives. Use that info how you will.

So one more update, with original and first update below... After several months of random problems with hard drives failing, I was able to solve the problem with a higher powered power supply. This 5 bay housing was not the issue at all. Though I had no real help from Syba, I was able to determine that my problems started when I added an additional drive to the system, thus apparently surpassing the capabilities of the power supply. I'm not really sure why the problems only manifested with the drives in this enclosure vs the drives mounted in the case, but the bottom line is that this device works flawlessly now that power is sufficient. ----------------------------------- Below is my original review. I am updating the review just over a year later because the device is failing. For a few months, I have had issues with drives failing in the unit. After replacing the drive, things would appear to work for a while. Now, replacing a drive will not work. Taking the drive out of this enclosure and directly attaching it works perfectly fine. So as nice as the hot-swap enclosure was, I feel it should last much longer than a year, thus I am reducing the rating of this product. It is virtually unusable at this point. ----------------------------- Wonderful addition to my system! I run my old desktop as a backup server, and this allows me to have hot-swappable RAID drives. Only problem I had was not reading the manual thus not realizing there were power buttons under each drive which needed pushed after inserting the drive. So much easier than powering down a system and removing screws to replace a failed drive. Nice solid aluminum construction, no worries about breaking flimsy parts.

Excellent design and performance. I would purchase this product again.

I purchased this to put in my watercooled home file server for the drives I was using in a Dell PE R710, which was just using way too much power. It fits well in 2 x 5.25" bays, hooked up seamlessly to my PERC H710 controller and recognized my existing arrays flawlessly. It's a very sturdy build even though it looks like they simply put 2 of the 4 x 2.5" cages together (smart designing!). It houses 6 x 5TB Seagate drives and a 400 GB SSD for the OS - the drives are kept cool and the lights on the front indicate activity as well as online status. I haven't had any fail, so I'm not sure if that is indicated by the LEDs. I had a minor issue where the screws were too short, and I'm not sure if it is from short screws or my cases 5.25 cage being bent from using a different 5 x 3.5" cage, but using a longer screw to initially tighten the connection fixed that problem.

product secured my slim 7mm SSD better than competitors. Full height ejector is awesome. activity light cable works, but wish it was sata in -> sata + LED out.