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ICY DOCK Quad Bay 2.5” 3.5” SATA HDD/SSD USB 3.0/eSATA External JBOD Hard Drive Enclosure - Black - ICYCube MB561U3S-4SB R1

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Hardware Interface USB 3.0
Brand ICY DOCK
Hardware Platform Mac
Item Weight 5.3 Pounds
Compatible Devices Laptop

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  • New EZ-Tray system supporting both 2.5" and 3.5" SATA HDD/SSD of all heights

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ICY DOCK MB561U3S-4SB R1
ICY DOCK MB561U3S-4SB-R1
ICY DOCK MB561U3S-4SB-R1
ICY DOCK MB561U3S-4SB-R1
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2.9 out of 5 stars
2.9 out of 5
13 global ratings

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Customers have negative opinions about the quality of the hard drive enclosure. They say it loses formatting or is unable to mount the drive. Some customers also report that the drives are unmountable or corrupted. Opinions are mixed on performance.

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6 customers mention2 positive4 negative

Customers are mixed about the performance of the hard drive enclosure. Some mention it's a solid enclosure that is working well, reliable, and sturdy. However, others say that it gets unmountable or corrupts almost every single drive they put on it. Some customers also say that the enclosure is far from good for reliability, and that the back of the enclosure no longer has the heavy duty grounded cable they were used to.

"...In one instance, the failure wiped out the drive and it’s contents (Crucial SSD, 1TB). I did find one workaround which seems (so far) to be working...." Read more

"Sturdy construction, easy HDD installation and has been working well..." Read more

"...The enclosures do die eventually, but I've never had a problem with them corrupting drives, a problem I've seen reported with other brands that..." Read more

"...This enclosure is far from good for reliability if it can handle some few "unproper" ejects which I think it is unaceptable since it is not a cheap..." Read more

3 customers mention0 positive3 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the quality of the hard drive enclosure. They mention that it loses formatting and is unable to mount the drive. Some customers also report that the enclosure corrupts the drives and makes them unmountable.

"...Time Machine drive using Disk Utility, but after unmounting it, it wouldn't remount...." Read more

"...platforms: with mixed drives, it will lose formatting or be unable to mount the drive(s)...." Read more

"...But the results was that ONE DRIVE WAS AGAIN UNMOUNTABLE and the other two drives got corrupted and become read only...." Read more

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Ronnie
5.0 out of 5 stars Solid enclosure that is working well, can't find additional EZ-Tray units however.
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2018
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Sturdy construction, easy HDD installation and has been working well (I have JBOD configuration for backing up Steam game library and other data as well). My Velociraptor 2.5" drives are not as cool as I would like but with the fan set on high setting, they maintain an acceptable temperature range; my other Toshiba 2.5" drives stay really cool however. I am having trouble locating additional EZ-Tray (MB559TRAY-2B) units since I would like to be able to swap additional drives. Overall, I am glad that I chose this enclosure.
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Michael J Boyle
1.0 out of 5 stars Ruined 3 drives in a day
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2017
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This enclosure has been the cause of quite a saga and may rank as my worst purchase ever, causing me to throw so much good money after bad, and corrupting every drive I attached to it before I cut my losses.

First, I received the enclosure and tested it turning it on with no drives installed to judge the fan noise. The fan produced an annoying rattling noise, frustrating, but nothing beyond what I've heard from other cheap included fans. Thinking myself smart, I thought, "I can replace that" and made my first mistake, buying a nice silent fan. Replacing the fan was not hard, but it did require snipping wires and re-soldering the new fan into place (goodbye chance of returning the unit no matter how many drives it has corrupted). That went fine and I was briefly very happy with my newly ultra-quiet enclosure.

That only lasted until I actually tried to use it. I put 2 new 8 Tb drives in, a 1 Tb SSD, and an old 3 Tb drive, I intended to clone onto one of the new 8 Tb drives and replace, then connected it to my Late 2014 Retina iMac via USB 3. From the start it was a bit flakey, sometimes seeming to take a while longer than I'd expect to mount a drive, but I put this down at first to settling in, and pushed forward. The initial drive clone went OK, but after that I started the process of doing a fresh Time Machine backup of all my drives (including the newly cloned one) to the other 8 Tb drive while also indexing the drives for online backup.

This is where things really went bad. First everything seemed to be going a little slower than I'd have expected, with a scan that should have taken 30 minutes or so stretching over hours, then a couple hours into the process all the drives connected to the enclosure (but not another drive I had connected separately via USB) unceremoniously power cycled and unmounted, then remounted. Two came back, but the third didn't remount until a file system check completed (successfully) which took far longer than I would have expected. After that, the Time Machine backup seemed to have difficulty restarting after its sudden disconnection. I eventually got it restarted, but not long after all the drives dumped themselves again. Again, one of the drives refused to remount until a file system check completed. By this time it was very late, so I left it overnight to try to get it to remount and when I came back in the morning, it was back and all file system checks reported fine.

I shut everything down, unplugged everything and replugged into different USB ports and swapped around the drives to different bays, rebooted, reformatted my Time Machine drive, and started over fresh, pausing the network backup indexing to let it do one thing at a time, hopefully finishing the Time Machine backup before starting the network one. This time everything seemed to be going fine... until the backup was nearly completed. I came back to check on the process and found an error. It didn't seem like the drives and disconnected themselves again, but Time Machine reported it couldn't finish creating the backup and errored out every time I tried to restart it. I unmounted and attempted to remount the Time Machine drive using Disk Utility, but after unmounting it, it wouldn't remount. It wouldn't even start a file system check on it to attempt to remount it. Not only that, but after unmounting it, it could no longer see the name of the drive replacing it with just dashes.

I shut down, power cycled the enclosure, and started back up... and no drives mounted. When I opened up Disk Utility, not only the Time Machine drive, but all the drives attached showed empty name fields, so corrupted that Disk Utility couldn't even tell the names of the drives. I figured, "wow, the controller in the enclosure died and it just isn't reading anything", so I took the drives out and put them in separate enclosures to check them. Still dead. The enclosure hadn't died, it had killed every drive attached to it.

Because it took out both my data drives and my backup drives in the same go while causing me to pause my online backup, I'm going to have to see if I can do data recovery to get my data off of the drives. Some preliminary looking makes it seem like I may be able to get my data back, but I'm having to throw more money at the mess this enclosure has made to buy updated data recovery software (while waiting unable to do work until I get it). And, of course, I'm never letting the enclosure touch another drive again, so I'll need to buy another solution. But the best part is that because I shelled out to upgrade the fan, I doubt I'll be able to recover anything I spent on the evil drive killing beast.

So I don't know. Maybe I got a lemon. Other people seem to have had fine experiences. But I'd strongly encourage you to do some burn in testing with drives that don't have any data you care about on them before trusting this enclosure. And if you think, "that fan's noisy but it doesn't look hard to replace" you're not wrong, but wait to see if you're going to want to return the thing first.
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Films USA
2.0 out of 5 stars If you know what you're doing, you can probably make this work...
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2018
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It seems this product has issues with Mac OS X , period. I’ve bench tested the ICY DOCK (Quad Bay 2.5” 3.5” SATA HDD/SSD USB 3.0/eSATA External JBOD) with three separate computers, all running OS X systems: 10.9.5 - 10.11 & 10.12. One was an iMac, one was a Mac mini and the third was a MacBook. Same issues on all platforms: with mixed drives, it will lose formatting or be unable to mount the drive(s). The one scenario in which it worked fine was when all the drives were identical (all Samsung 250GB SSD).
The conditions where they failed miserably (on all machines) was when I combined 4 SSD drives from different manufacturers; (Intel, Samsung, San Disk and Crucial). After full formatting (Disk Utility, Mac OS Extended) several times, one or more drives would simply not mount on boot, or fail altogether. In one instance, the failure wiped out the drive and it’s contents (Crucial SSD, 1TB). I did find one workaround which seems (so far) to be working. On Mac machines, do not boot and/or shutdown with the Icy Dock on. If you firstly fully boot your machine, then turn on the Icy Dock, things appear to work OK. I believe it may have something to do with MBR or disk-to-disk instructions differing on each of the drives, i.e, one using NAND, the others 3D, or something similar. I cannot be sure. Boot readouts were also sketchy (using the Terminal to log errors). I'm using the setup for storage, so performance issues do not concern me here. I fill a drive and then remove it.
I have not tested it on Windows computers, yet. If there is any change, I’ll post here. In the meantime, if you need reliability for Mac platforms (especially when working with video or music), I suggest some other JOBD setup.
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Kyle Jones
3.0 out of 5 stars should not have changed the power plug
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2017
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This is a newer version of the old grey 4 bay ICYDOCK enclosure that I've been using for several years. The enclosures do die eventually, but I've never had a problem with them corrupting drives, a problem I've seen reported with other brands that shall remain nameless.

ICYDOCK did make one change that is quite irritating however. The power cable that goes into the back of the enclosure is no longer the heavy duty grounded cable I was used to. Now it's a skinny cord that runs to a power brick, something you'd typically see on a laptop computer. The plug is now easy to dislodge from the back of the enclosure, which means that one day I will inevitably knock it loose, cutting power to all the drives in the bays. I'm going to secure the plug in place with tape, but needing this kind of makeshift arrangement is not what I expected from an otherwise sturdy and reliable product.
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Greg W.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great JBOD enclosure. The price/performance on this little unit is fantastic.
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2018
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I haven't had a chance to hook up the second one I just purchased, but I love my first one!

It's a great JBOD enclosure, it keeps the drives cool (WD Red, various sizes), and the fan is way quieter than the air filter I have running in my office.

The second one was purchased because the number of drives I have keeps growing.

(I'm not a fan of deleting things, I'd rather my disk space grow. I'm up to about 54TB now.)
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