




Icy Dock is a household name for its high quality storage products for RAID applications, SSDs, and functional design. Now, all of those will be combined into one ground breaking product: the MB982SPR-2S. This little device packs a huge punch with features and performance, allowing 2 x 2.5" SATA SSD/HDD to be converted to a 3.5" SATA form factor for use in most internal drive bays, backplanes, external enclosures, and server racks. It transforms the 2 drives into a 3.5" SATA drive with exact dimensions, mounting holes, and connection locations as a normal 3.5" drive.
Pros: Fast enough to use an SSD with SF-1200 controllers. I have a few Mushkin enhanced SSDs with 275MB write and 285 Read. I have been searching for a hardware raid device that does not slow down the drives; this is that device! I did some benchmarks with Ubuntu, and the read/write/access speeds were the same when in Raid 1 ( mirrored ) as without.
Cons: Not really specific to this device, but any SSD in a raid environment will lose TRIM support. This device is no exception. I suppose software raid in Linux might support TRIM, eventually.
Overall Review: I highly recommend this for faster SSD use.