EverCool Dual 5.25 in. Drive Bay to Triple 3.5 in. HDD Cooling Box

I have been using this product for over a week now, and I find no problems with it at all. I am impressed actually, and that is not easy to do after 32 years in the IT field.I am this to hold one 3.5" and one 2.5" SSD cache drive in my Z800 workstation. It matches the look of the case almost perfectly, and I do not use up any of my eSATA internal drive trays. I used the 2.5"-to-3.5" steel adapter plate ( http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Convert-Mounting-E71439-001/dp/B00A6SQMSA/ ) which came with my Intel SSD to mount into this unit. This allows me to use one of each drive size with lots of space between them for quiet, excellent quality, cooling.PROS:- Very well made, out of quality materials with intelligent design features.- This product comes with both a 3.5" and a 2.5" (not shown in images) finished drive mounts!- The device will hold three 3.5" or four 2.5" drives directly in front of the included 80mm cooling fan.- the drive mounts are mechanically isolated from the frame with synthetic rubber dampers, this makes your drives quieter, and protects them from vibrations, such as those produced from slamming drawers or the thud of a sub-woofer on your desk, thus protecting your drive and data investments.- The fan is mounted in a separate cowling with a removable dust filter, that you can clean without any tools; the filter material is reusable and washable.- The fan is a long-life ball-bearing low wattage fan that is almost silent. It provides enough airflow to make the drives cool to the touch, thus protecting your investment.- The unit blends very well with black or white (choose wisely; **see note at bottom) cases only.- This unit is quality enough for professional, government, or enterprise level use.- The design of this unit exceeds OEM specifications for case design.CONS:- none that I can find so far!CONCLUSION:I will most definitely buy, and recommend this unit.The quality is there, the value is there, and design and features are there.Good job EverCool.PRO TIPS:1 - **Note: If you have a custom case, and you wish a colour match, choose the dark or light colour that more closely matches your finish paint, then have someone refinish the removable face plate with model paint, or Krylon ( http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sr_1_1_acs_h_1i_2595039011&node=2595039011?ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=8-1-acs ) plastic paint. You can find many tutorials online to how to refinish plastic to match something. Automotive, hobbyist, and modelling sites all have step-by-step instructions how to do this.2 - If you have a low-profile media case, with a double-height front drive-bay, use this EverCool unit to provide effective protection for a small RAID setup in your media server. Many media cases do not have the active cooling capabilities that a RAID array requires.3- To get a completely silent fan in your media server, it is possible to install a fan controller, or merely use fan resistors! ( http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Fan+Resistor ).Connect a fan resistor in-line with the fan to make the fan perfectly silent, even if you stick your ear right up to the front of the unit; for those very picky audiophiles!

I bought a Node Core 1000 for a simple NAS setup. This case only comes with two mounts for hard drives and one adapter for a 2.5" drive in the upper 5.25" bays. This is simple not enough for what I plan to do with my home server, so I needed to find a solution. Thankfully this case has the two 5.25" bays for this drive cage.Wow, this fits great! The fan is surprisingly quiet for a generic fan, and the door is fantastic if you want a little bit of extra cooling for your drives. The fit on the case is pretty good, it will take some maneuvering to get the front of the door to line up with the front panel but it will work with enough patience!With all 3 drives slotted in, I saw temperatures of: 43C, 40C, and 41C per each drive.The one caveat is the door clasp, which should be sanded down prior to installation! Another comment has this more thoroughly summed up, so refer to that one (should be the top review). After some light sanding (emphasis on light I almost went too far) the door opens and closes perfectly.Genuinely fantastic product that is very well made with the drives supported only by metal with the door being the only thing made from plastic. Very much worth it for those extra drive bays!

Installed this item in a RackChoice 2U chassis that had 2x5.25 bays free. It was a little annoying on the part of the chassis that this EverCool unit wouldn't cleanly slide through the front panel of the chassis (required installation through the front of the chassis to allow for the fan filter door to operate), but I'm not sure which device is to blame for that.I love how the filter is accessible and cleanable, no comment on the fan noise as I run all my case fans at full speed regardless and this machine is not in my living space.The three drives I have installed in this carrier run a bit warm under full load (mid to high 30s C when doing a parity check), but that's atypical usage and normally they're high 20s.Have been using this carrier for about a year now and the fan still works. Overall it's a good value.