Rosewill RX-C202 3.5" SATA Trayless Hot Swap Mobile Rack for Dual 2.5" SATA SSD / HDD

Pros: Very nice, high quality trays to give instant access to your 2.5" drives or SSD's.

Cons: None

Overall Review: OCZ SSDs do not fit. For some reason OCZ marches to the beat of a different drummer and another reason to watch out if purchasing their SSDs. My Samsung, Corsair and AData SSDs fit perfectly, OCZ not.

Pros: -None

Cons: -Top slot kept failing intermittently. Swapped cables, drives, ports, you name it. Was driving me nuts trying to troubleshoot. -Build quality of the included SATA cables is quite poor. Connectors do not fit snugly. Tried them on another rig to be sure it wasn't this hot swap rack.

Overall Review: In the past, Rosewill used to be good to me. However, I have to say that in the last year, I've been getting nothing but garbage from them, and this is probably going to be the last straw.

Pros: Easy install, fit perfectly in a Rosewill 3.5 to 5.25 converter tray (N82E16817997051). Doors seem solid enough, should survive multiple openings/closings (though I personally won't be hot-swapping).

Cons: No deduction-worthy surprises for me. See other thoughts.

Overall Review: I'm using this for my primary drive which I recently moved to an SSD. As such, I'm not personally too concerned with heat or vibration. Not sure why it comes with an old Molex-type power cable and not SATA. Of course, most 2.5" drives only use 5V power anyway so not an issue for the drive, but it could be an issue for power supplies with limited molex. Would have preferred a more robust connector on the board. The SATA cables don't "lock" in place, so be careful and always double check your connections when making changes inside your case. No ability to lock the drive doors, and doors are spring-powered to automatically eject your drives. Make arrangements (duct tape) if you think you might brush a knee up against the doors frequently. The enclosure is ALL metal, and I imagine two HDDs installed in this thing might get a little warm being so close with very little airflow. The drive on the bottom is especially cramped. Otherwise, should be pefect for SSD/HDD combo with SSD on the bottom.

Pros: Small, Metal, sturdy, feels solid, doors open and close precisely.

Cons: This can be a bad one, but it's easy to fix. They do a nice job of painting their little drive bay black. However the paint is a bit of an electrical insulator. When I mounted this nice little baby into my PC, I didn't realize that all the painted surfaces have insulated the drive bay fame from computer frame ground. So when I reached out and touched the little door to open it, I felt a significant ZAP! of static electricity, and there was a significant ESD event onto the upper drive bay. This ESD pulse traveled through the SSD mounted in the upper bay causing the entire SSD to be erased. When I tried to boot my PC, I got the dreaded "No operating system!" message. Luckily, I was able to restore the boot image, and the SSD seemed to be OK other than being erased.

Overall Review: The fix is simple. Take some sand paper to the mounting holes, and sand off all the paint in a little spot around the mount holes. Also make certain that the rails in your case are not painted in areas around the mounting holes for the cradle that is holding this drive bay. Try to make certain that there is a low resistance path from the drive bay frame and the PC frame your mounting this into.

Pros: Makes it easy to swap out drives when your motherboard supports hot swapping etc. It also works as advertised, slide the tab, the door opens, put a drive it and when you close the door it makes a solid connection. It's also well constructed, not cheap feeling.

Cons: The only thing I can think of is that it doesn't use SATA power, it uses old school IDE power plugs. Not a huge deal, but it is a con.

Overall Review: If you are doing hot swapping of drives, or just want quick access to your drives from the front of your machine, it's a no brainer.

Pros: Good solid quality and feel. Easy to swap drives. Some have complained that OCZ drives don't work. I have no problem with my Vertex 3's working in this adapter.

Cons: If you want the drive lights to work you must use the supplied Molex to SATA power adapters. I would rather have it be supplied with a SATA to SATA power adapter. Minus 1 egg for this reason.

Overall Review: 4-7 day shipping via DHL to USPS sucks. Took 10 days and probably would have been faster USPS only. NJ to FL. Are you listening NewEgg?

Pros: Superb built quality. Excellent finish and fit. This is the most well built consumer grade rack/adapter I've seen. Have tried with 4 kinds of different SSDs and 2 HDDs. All fit fine.

Cons: 2 power adapters need to be used, should be made with 1 to clean up cable clutter around device.

Pros: The material is heavy and durable. Its pretty neat that I can keep my ssd's in a more secure place. The sata and power cables it comes with are also good quality. You have to use a molex to plug in though.

Cons: I wish they had some 3.5 to 5.25 bracket extenders but its not worth taking eggs off for.

Overall Review: People complaining that OCZ ssd cards not fitting correctly (huh?) I was kind of worried at first when I order it and started looking for a replacement before it got in... my OCZ Vertex 3 and OCZ Vertex 4 both fit just fine in the bays... (they are a bit snug) they come out easy as well and I was very careful to make sure there were no pressure points or tightness on the ssd cards connecters or drive cages connectors...