Product ReviewsiStarUSA iStorm7 Heat Terminator Bracket 2x5.25" with 3 HDD Drive with 1x80mm Fan
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 Rating: Review Date: 05/03/13 |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/24/13 |
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Comments: It fits excellent in my old Dell, and keeps the disks nice and cool. A fantastic way to add a RAID array to a smaller sized tower (just make positive your power provide can handle it). |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/29/13 |
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Holds 3 standard HDs in two 5.25" bays. Air filter maintain my case a bit cleaner. None. I wear headphones when I use my pc, mostly for gaming and if that fan is noisy, I don't hear it. HD's are snug in there, no lying there, but there is sufficient space in between them for the air to flow, and that's what it does. Makes the air flow between them and moves them out of the other HD housings. My case is small, and I wanted to place in a larger video card. The new video card would hit the stock HD cage in the bottom. Fortunately that HD cage is easily removed by removing some screws. This did precisely what I necessary it to do. I didn't require hot swap or any fancy features, I just wanted my HD's up in the CD bays where they wouldn't influence the space I wanted to use for a lengthy video card. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/14/13 |
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It has a filter and the fan is quiet when undervolted. It holds three drives in two ODD spots. There is no space in between the drives when you set up three. There is also no way for air to go in addition to up and over the prime drive. It does what it advertises, but the style of it could have been greater. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/17/13 |
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Reasonably priced resolution to mount 3 tough drives into 2x5.25 bays. Simply removable filter. Works fantastic in my iStar rackmount instances. Nicely made with the added benefit of cooling your difficult drives. Does extend the drives farther back due to the added fan location. Could be an concern with tiny circumstances. Didn't attempt the stock fan as I replaced it with an Arctic Cooling PWM. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/06/13 |
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Fantastic notion to have fan cooled hard drive bay. Fan good quality is poor, sleeve bearing fan. Fan speed is not controlled by temperature. Screw holes for mounting this unit into chassis do not align with chassis. Only can screw one particular hole per side. You will need to have to replace the fan with a great good quality ball bearing fan, then drill one particular hole on each and every side to make sure it can securely mounted into chassis. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/29/12 |
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Greater than a regular 5.25 adapter bracket. The front door is tougher to open than it really should be. the microscopic piece of plastic that is the "hinge" broke off after 3rd opening to clean the filter. The stock fan is not so excellent. the drives are waaays too cramped creating the fan a moot point. there is not substantially adjustment for drive depth which made a wire clearance situation that wasnt vital. good thought. poor execution. there appears to be additional bracket that what was vital. i assume subsequent time i will go a various route. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/27/12 |
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- Slides quickly into the case- Only needs two five.2" drive bays- Great hunting front grille with hinges to open/close - None |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/26/12 |
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It's black. The clips that hold the cheap plastic front panel on were broken on both of the heat terminators I bought. This wasn't a big deal, due to the fact they were going in a rack case and I wasn't going to use the front panel anyway. The fan is actually loud, so I replaced it with a greater fan. I just realized that I spent $xx on a metal bracket. Twice. I'm feeling a little applied. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/07/12 |
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Very good looking, I utilized it to fill in the empty slots and with built in fans is a plus. the product performed as advertised. No Additional filter. I've seen some critiques says the filter cover is hard to open and thats not correct, It will fill tight if you try to PULL it open, the ideal way to open the filter cover is to press down on the tab then pull. hope this data assist. |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/14/12 |
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Excellent Style. There are other folks out there but some I have looked at does not have the fan covered. Can't consider of any It was just what I was searching for. Highly advised. |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/12/12 |
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Added 3 drive slots to my tool-much less case. A lot far better than the clunky 3.5" to 5 " drive adapters None Fan was not needed, because my case is below a slight negative pressure. Other people have complained about the quality of the front drop down door. It's plastic, people today! Go easy with it and you'll have no challenges. |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/02/12 |
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Comments: Wanted to upgrade my case fans to Vantec Tornados, on the other hand simply because of their size, I HAD to discover a way to relocate them in my case.This infant did the trick. Mounted nicely and came with adequate screws to mount it and 3 tricky drives.The fan even on complete blast is silent. Filet element is simply remouvable and appears to be cleanable.Wonderful purchase if your HDD's are overheating, or if your like me, just will need to mount the in a greater spot.Newegg and FedEx were remarkable as usuall! |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/11/12 |
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Quite properly ventilated which keeps drives nice and cool. Doesn't have a energy switch on it. If you want to add three drives in the space of two bays. This item performs effectively. I have a swift release system already so I do not demand hot swap storage bays. On the other hand, at least 1 hot swap dock would be a bit far more convenient. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/02/12 |
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Holds drives nicely. Quiet fan. Considerably cheaper than hot-swap units. None for the price No, it isn't a #-ware hot-swap cage, but for what you spend for this, it is a solid tiny expansion cage. The fan isn't silent, but is reasonably quiet, the black matches my case just fine. All in all, just a good small drive bay that does precisely what it says it will - squeeze an further drive into space you're almost certainly not even using. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/11/12 |
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Comments: Great way to use added 5.25" drive bay space. Fan is quiet, too.I installed three WD RAID edition SATA drives in this unit into a situation with adequte ventilation. The center drive will run a bit warm under heavy use. Wise reported 57C in a 72F area. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/17/12 |
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Fits into two 5.25" slots as promised, good dust filter up front. How did they fit three hard drives into this? Must have been the seriously slim low capacity drives. Expensive! Fan was also loud, had to replace it with a quieter fan. If you don't thoughts replacing the fan and shelling out 24 bucks for this then get it. A related item that only occupies two 5.25" slots is hard to locate. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/03/12 |
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If you have tricky drives that are operating hot and two free 5.25" bays, these are the solution. I run a pair of WD Raptors in one particular of these that are 30C when idle and 32C when active. I purchased my 1st unit about 8 years ago below a diverse make/model and the style hasn't changed much more than the years. The 80mm fan is good and quiet compared to regular 40mm fans and the air flow across the drives is generous. Replacing a drive requires a very good bit of dissassembly. You have to disconnect all drives, eliminate the unit from the situation, remove the guide rails (if utilised), then you can finally get at the drive to alter it out. Still, that's a minor inconvenience given that this unit keeps your drives cool (which extends their lifespan). The only time you must will need to pull this unit is to upgrade to a bigger tricky drive (instead of having to swap out a drive that died from heat exhaustion). I'd recommend not placing much more then two challenging drives in these units. That will give you a lot of airflow across both tricky drives. Even if the 80mm fan fails, the drives will not instantaneously cook like they would if you had installed 3 drives. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/08/12 |
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Cram 3 fan cooled drives into two five-1ǘ bays? What a lot more can you ask? Oh yeah! - a fold out door for changing the filter...BRILLIANT! Hmmm...I guess it would have been good to get a second fan filter...I don't know where I will get yet another when this one is shreds from a couple years of use. Worth just about every penny. Does precisely what I was hoping for. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/21/12 |
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Comments: This is a wonderful item. My HDD's were overheating, but after adding this heat bracket, every thing runs cool. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/21/12 |
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excellent for employing 3 hard drives in 2 optical bays. fan offers great cooling, loud fan can be exchanged for quieter one. fan filter is helpful for keeping out dust. door for fan filter is very good, far better than other similar items that need sliding a cover out. holes are drilled accurately and difficult drives fit correct. fan could be louder than expected, door appears a bit flimsy, operates excellent, great price, would like to see a 5 drive, 3 bay version or 1 incorporating two.5in drives |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/27/12 |
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Solid built and fan works. Fan is noisy when you flip the front cover down and not worth ส when you could get a iCage for about $eleven dollers. UPS rocks for the region we live in. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/23/12 |
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Comments: Just installed the bracket into my backup storage machine. Was worried that I would have to adjust the case for the bracket to fit, but it worked out just fine. Looks like a truly excellent item; will get another on my next HD acquire because I've already filled this a single up. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/27/11 |
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* Keeps the drives cool* Flexible hard drive configuration * Plastic front cover is not extremely sturdy I purchased this to cool two WD 2TB drives in a RAID 1 config for my house server. I didn't have a fan on the drives ahead of but this thing cooled them from 113 F to 95 F. If you are working with this in a desktop application where it is going to be setting correct beside you, obtaining a quieter fan must also be on your buy list. This is a excellent item for a distinctive circumstance. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/10/11 |
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I use two of these iStorm7's when developing 2U rackmount computers to deploy in datacenters. I can mount three IDE SATA drives on every single side for two - five.25" spaces. So I use 6 SATA drives total in a RAID Ư configuration with ASUS workstation motherboards. I don't require a floppy or CD-ROM in a rackmount server that is remotely deployed.The fans are high high quality and themselves are quiet. None. I've applied these for more than two years. In a tower or desktop case, the plastic covers and filters are ideal. In a rackmount datacenter deployment, just take of the plastic covers so these drive cages are extremely universal. The metal is plenty sturdy when bolted to the case and drives to eliminate harmonic vibration of the drives. |
Works as advertised. Dropped the temps of my 10,000 RPM scsi drives from 48c,45c to 32c,31c. Quiet.I'll probably buy one more. Front cover can be a discomfort to open. Busted a pin trying to open it.I'm not keen on the bottom plate becoming solid and not open like the leading. To use in an additional machine I may possibly have to mount it upside down due to the way the case airflow is developed. While unit supports 3 drives, I have two drives mounted in an arrangement exactly where air flows on leading and bottom of each. I may well replace fan with a thermaltake sensible fan for the summer season heat. (my personal computer space does not have a/c)