Comments on: IcyBox Hard Drive Caddy

By: john

john — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:11:44 +0000

ive just installed a maxtor 120 gig hdd and it works fine, just one problem, i have lots of music on this drive but i cant access it, anyone know why? or how too?

By: "Grim"

"Grim" — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:43:23 +0000

I have an ICY BOX with a 250gig maxtor hdd inside had it for a long time now and I ahve had no issues what so ever with it. It’s on all day and with no problems at all cheap and does whats needed of it.

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By: vermac

vermac — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:50:26 +0000

Hi
My icy Box 351 won’t mount on my Intel iMac :((( it works fine on my G4 Powerbook? Anyone?

By: Doobie

Doobie — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:50:48 +0000

I have the same problem with my External being write protected on MACS… If I do format it again using a MAC, will it run the same on a PC?
Cheers.

By: gubbs

gubbs — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:00:39 +0000

If its not any help the drivers can be found here:
http://www.raidsonic.de/en/pages/service/driver.php?PHPSESSID=bbbb287b91f9d6ac149db9587b14d315

By: Douglas Smith

Douglas Smith — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:05:36 +0000

I had the same problem - Re:
“One recent problem I have being suffering is intermittent functionality with Tiger. When I plug it in, sometimes Spotlight starts to index it, sometimes it is mounted and sometimes I can only access it through the terminal. I don’t know whether this is a problem which will be fixed in a later patch to Tiger - I can only hope so.”
Unfortunately in my case it killed a brand new 200GB Maxtor HD completely, stopped the drive spinning altogether.
Does anyone know anything about this problem? (and also if the drive can be resurrected) - Also if firmware updates for the Icybox are available for Macs (OS X 10.4) and where to get them from if they are?

By: JimmyG

JimmyG — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 20:07:48 +0000

I would be careful about ones that “work fine”. At my work we bought some ADS ones that were supposed to be really good according to NewEgg reviews (don’t get me wrong I Like NewEgg), but they were horrible. We didn’t notice at first, we put some 300Gig hard drives in those bad boys and withing 4 weeks 2 overheated and are near death. We found the the manufacturing process didn’t always make the airholes in the case. In some cases the holes for the exhaust fan were still closed so we had to physically use a blad and cut the wholes ourselves.

What makes the ICYBox so much better? Well since you asked it has an alluminum cage all the way around which allows better heat dissipation. On top of that the “pins” on the inside are made of (copper or aluminum) which will transfer the heat from the hard drive to the enclosure to give you one large heat sink for your drive. Lastly they positioned the drive on it’s side which allows for the heat leaving through the Icybox to have more air surface to dissipate the heat.

Heat won’t be an issue for you if you run, say a 40 or even 80 Gig drive, but it’s very important on these larger drive 300G+.

By: LS

LS — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 18:55:57 +0000

tigerdirect.com and newegg.com both sell hard drive enclosures for about half this price which work fine. I’ve just purchases a Masscool enclosure for $29.

By: James

James — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:00:32 +0000

Just wondering if anyone knows a US website that sells them. I can only find UK websites?

Thanks.

By: l0ne

l0ne — Mon, 09 May 2005 09:38:00 +0000

with less than 20 gb of disk space) can be read and written to by OS X without problems.

By: l0ne

l0ne — Mon, 09 May 2005 09:37:02 +0000

NTFS (that is, all Windows 2000-or-later-formatted volumes whose size is > 20 gb) drives cannot be written to by Mac OS X. Volumes formatted using FAT (the default for old versions of Windows and for newer versions for drives