Icybox IB-350US: Comes With A Fast Serial ATA Converter
Contents
- 1. Requiem For Floppy Disk, CD And DVD Storage
- 2. Hard Drive Enclosures
- 3. Icybox IB-355-U: Flashes When Transmitting
- 4. Icybox IB-355-U, Continued
- 5. Icybox IB-350UE-BL: Cool Design With Blue Lighting Effects
- 6. Icybox IB-350UE-BL, Continued
- 7. Icybox IB-350US: Comes With A Fast Serial ATA Converter
- 8. Icybox IB-350US, Continued
- 9. Kingwin's KH-350U Goes Disco
- 10. Kingwin KH-350U, Continued
- 11. Lindy ME-720SI: Serial-ATA Goes External
- 12. Lindy ME-720U2SI: Internal IDE, External S-ATA And USB 2.0
- 13. Lindy ME-720F2U2: Pricey IEEE1394b Enclosure
- 14. Lindy ME-720F2U2, Continued
- 15. MaPower Combo MAP-H31C2: Heavy And Expensive
- 16. MaPower Combo MAP-H31C2, Continued
- 17. MaPower Warps MAP-KC31U2G: Flashy Design
- 18. Sharkoon's Rocketpod: Complicated Assembly
- 19. Sharkoon Rocketpod, Continued
- 20. Vantec Nexstar NST-350UF: Flyweight At 240 G
- 21. Vantec Nexstar NST-350UF, Continued
- 22. Cheap Adapter Solutions For Purists
- 23. ARP Hi-Speed Adapter, Continued
- 24. HWShop4U USB/IDE Converter Offers No Power Supply To The Board
- 25. The Wiebetech Combodock Offers An Aluminum Enclosure With An IEEE1394b Connection
- 26. Wiebetech Combodock, Continued
- 27. Benchmark Results
- 28. Evaluation
- 29. Our Recommendations
- 30. Technical Data
7. Icybox IB-350US: Comes With A Fast Serial ATA Converter
The next Icybox enclosure for 3.5" hard drives also comes in an airy design. The similarities to the IB-350UE-BL are unmistakable, the IB-350US lacks the lighting and transfer effects, however. There are differences in their interfaces too. Instead of FireWire, this enclosure has an external Serial ATA connection. Inside there's room for an IDE hard drive with parallel ATA. A converter chip switches the signal from IDE to S-ATA, enabling the enclosure to communicate with any internal onboard interface. The additional USB 2.0 port is for connecting the IB-350US to PCs without Serial ATA support. Although its data transfer rate is far below that of the second interface, it's more than acceptable for USB 2.0.
Easy to confuse with the IB-350UE-BL enclosure but without light show
The Icybox IB-350US packaging
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