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Screw threads NOT the same as standard 3.5" HDD

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2017

I like this product a lot, and there is only one reason that I'm giving it 4 stars instead of 5 stars, and that is because the brass inserts for the screws are not 3.5" hard drive thread, they are floppy drive / CD Rom drive thread (finer thread) which in most applications will be fine, but if you are mounting it in a device that uses special screws (as I was, a 2009 21.5" iMac), you have to find alternatives. The OEM mac hard drive used an insulated screw on one side and a spacer on the other side, both standard HDD thread. I had to force the spacer studs in because I had no alternative and find longer FDD thread screws. The fins being plastic make no difference to me as SSD's don't really generate heat

Pro's:
Cheap
Great Fit
SATA/Power connector in standard 3.5" hdd locatoin

Con's:
Brass inserts use FDD threads instead of HDD threads

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blarg

PLASTIC!!!!

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2017

Although this thing looks like a giant heat sink and says it has "great heat dissipation through fins", IT'S PLASTIC.

Plastic is an insulator, not a conductor and the fins DO NOT go all the way through so they actually impede airflow. It's basically a molded piece of plastic with metal bolts embedded for securing it.

It DOES fit fine and works ok for SSD's which don't get particularly hot, but I wouldn't put a 15k SAS drive in it.

Whatever claims the vendor has for heat dissipation as complete 100% BS. Do not use it if you're looking for any kind of heat mitigation or putting into a hot low airflow environment.

Also, I ordered two of these. In one normal hard drive screws worked just fine and I had no problems with them. On the other one I had to re-tap the threads because normal hard drive screws did not fit.

At $7.99 this product is extremely overpriced given that it's just a hunk of molded plastic with sometimes-working screw holes. I'm going to use the two I ordered because returning them is more hassle than it's worth, but I certainly wouldn't buy them again.

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blarg

PLASTIC!!!!

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2017

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Marcel V.

This is not a great heat dissipation SDD tray

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2018

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Upon receiving this product, I didn't realize it is made of molded plastic - I should have read the description more thoroughly. I had wished it was made of metal so the heat dissipation would have been better. Furthermore, the sides of the 'fins' is completely enclosed so there is NO AIRFLOW ACROSS the fins or SSD; I honestly don't understand how the manufacturer could imagine there is good air flow.

I use to test heat sink dissipation efficiencies for a well know military power supply company and I can assure you any claim for good heat dissipation could not be true. If the manufacture differs in opinion, I'd be happy to review their thermal analysis for this product.

A fully open tray would dissipate heat better than this tray... using a fan based ssd tray would be even better.

In the end, the SSD's we use are electronic which should be kept cool.

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Sage

It Only Looks Like a Heat Sink

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2018

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It's appearance is that it's a good heat sink too. However, it's made out of ABS plastic, a plastic that isn't particularly good at conducting heat. An open-frame adapter made of metal would be better because metal does conduct heat away from the drive. If I can return it, I will return it.

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rook

Plastic -> Heat soak

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2020

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I was in a hurry and purchased this adapter for a SSD. I bought it due to being an Orico product, assuming it was metal, and the airflow photo. I was shocked it was plastic when it arrived but gave the benefit of doubt (previous experiences with Orico items) and dropped in a SSD to use in a Asustor NAS. Without load, the drive was around 35C and under load spiked to 43C. The hard drives surrounding were in the range of 29 (without load) to 34C (under load). Cutting out the plastics and drilling some holes to help with ventilation only produced a 1C drop across usage. The operating range of SSDs are about 0-70C but high temperatures reduce life expectancy. So I ordered the Fenlink and temperatures are 30-31C. Temperature does not change under load. The build quality is great, zero fitment issues, and transfer rates are solid. The temperature issue I saw might be just the setup I had, but I could not give more than three stars compared to the competition that is using simple metal.

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Peter Walsh

Screw threads NOT the same as standard 3.5" HDD

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2017

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ktsharples

The air fins are pointless; but it’s still a good product

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2019

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As practically everyone has mentioned; the vents in this drive sled are blocked off, and it’s made of insulating plastic; so this will not give a large thermal dissipation rate. It’s interesting that they made heat-sink fins, but blocked them off on the inside cavity. Keep in mind however that SSDs don’t really generate much heat, so unless you’re using this in a low-air-flow setting, you should be just fine.
I purchased two of these (for the price), one for a MacPro and one for a Windows PC. I did not have any issues with the screw holes; the bottom mounting holes worked with a MacPro drive sled with the Apple screws, and the other worked just fine with standard HDD screws in the windows machine.
As a tip; check to make sure your SSD isn’t sitting at an angle off the SATA connector, I found that my Kingston drive was a little on the skinny side, and as such was sitting at an angle off the internal SATA connector. I folded a sticky note and stuck it under the opposite side and it was sitting level.

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J. Haug

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2017

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Be aware if you plan to use this for upgrading an iMac internal hard drive: The screw holes along the sides of this caddy are not the same size of screw hole that's on the side of a standard mechanical 3.5" hard drive. So, you can't move the iMac mounting studs from the factory drive over to this. Well, not very easily anyway.

Because I didn't want to wait for another caddy to arrive, I used an in-between screw size to widen the threads slightly, then used high torque to drive the iMac studs into the sides. This worked okay, but I wouldn't suggest planning on doing it that way.

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Joor

Works great in most applications

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2019

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As the title states. I works great in most applications. This alone is why I couldn't give it more than 3 stars. If I could have given it 3.5 stars I would have. So first, like other people I looked at it and thought it was made of metal because it looks like it is. That was my bad. But it doesn't seem to be getting any hotter than just the bare drive. I think in most situations where you are replacing a 3.5 drive or must want to add a 2.5in drive in a machine this will work perfect. That was not the reason I purchased these. I also purchased an Orico 4bay usb c enclosure that these drive chassis were going to be used in. This didn't work out the way that I had hoped, but they did work. The chassis/adapter is thinner than a 3.5in drive.

This caused a problem with this enclosure because the slots were wide enough to fit the traditional 3.5in drives. Since this chassis was thinner they sprung forward in the enclosure. They worked fine but I think over time it would probably ended up damaging the SATA connectors in the enclosure. I am giving these a 3 star review solely because images speak a thousand words. The description wasn't as good at it could have been.

Although I only gave these 3 stars I do think they are worth the price I paid. If I needed a 2.5 to 3.5 chassis/adapter, I would buy these again, as they do perfectly align the drive as if it were a 3.5in drive.

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Tomy Jones

Why would you put Heatsink Fins on PLASTIC?!?! These could cause premature drive failure.

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2020

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Although these seem very durable, and high grade (why they get 2 stars instead of 1) , they are PLASTIC.

Now, going back through and reading very carefully all of the details on the entire page, I do see where it is stated it is ABS, about half way (in the middle) of all of the other important information.

With that said, why Heat Fins? Is there a fundamental misunderstanding of how heat transfer works in metal and is used to cool things? There must be, since these are ABS - but the manufacture has gone through the effort to mold in the fins, and all of the extra time and cost that goes into that. My opinion (and that's what you get when reading this review) is that they were added to either mislead us; because the manufacture doesn't understand thermal dynamics; or because they look neat.

Either way, my engineering experience with high end system builds and heat control, tells me that I should not use these, and am sending them back.

Specifically, if they are metal - you can use them. If they are plastic - you will want an open mold version, that will allow airflow on the bottom of the drive.

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mthomas540

Don't Buy! Holes on the bottom don't line up standard SSD

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2019

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I have a Samsung SSD and the hole that you use to hold the SSD to this case don't line up! That means you only have two choices. Return it or try and drill new holes (its plastic) yourself.

Now, don't get confused. There are holes on the side of the unit and they are fine. But there are also holes on the bottom of the unit and they don't fit, and they are required! You use the holes on the bottom to attach your drive to the case (and you have to or the drive will fall out of the case.)

Worse than that, the SATA connector in mine didn't work! In testing it with a known good cable and a known good drive, I couldn't see the drive. Take the drive out of this case and plug it in using the same cable, and up it came!

BAD Product. Don't buy.

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