Smaller 2.5-inch hard drives have become very popular because of the introduction of solid state drives a few years ago. Since then the drives have come down in price and many people are purchasing their first solid state drive. Many cases do not have a spot to mount a 2.5-inch hard drive, although some new cases do a good amount do not. For this reason Thermaltake has come out with the Max 4 hard drive rack. It supports 2 2.5-inch SATA drives and features tool-free hard drive installation. Let’s take a look at the Max 4 and see it is perfect for your new solid state drive!
Special thanks to Thermaltake for providing us with the Max 4 2.5-inch Hard Drive Rack to review.
Features
– Supports dual 2.5” SATA hard drive.
– Fully supports hot-swap and hot-plug.
– Tool-free for easy HDD installation.
– Fits in standard 3.5” drive bay.
– Up to 3Gbps transfer speeds.
Specifications
| Enclosure Interface | SATA to SATA |
| Transfer Rate | 3.0 Gbps |
| HDD Compatible | SATA I SATA II |
| HDD Capacity | Standard 2.5″ SATA & SSD Hard Drive Disks |
| OS Compatible | Windows Vista / XP / 2003 / 2000 / NT / 98 / 95 Mac 10.3 and later |
| Material | Stainless & Plastic |
| Power | 4-pin Molex Power Connector |
| Dimension | 133 (L) x 101 (W) x 24 (H) mm 5.24 (L) x 3.98 (W) x 0.94 (H) in |
| Accessory | SATA & Power Management Cable |
| Fan | N/A |
| Weight | 276 g |
| Special Features | -Fully supports hot-swap and hot-plug -Tool-free for easy HDD installation |
Packaging
The Max 4 hard drive rack comes in a small retail box that has a picture of the device on the front and a list of specifications on the side.
Opening the box everything inside is nicely organized. Inside you will find the Max 4 device, 2 SATA cables, 2 power cables, and instructions.
I think something like this would be very beneficial to me. Too many times have I had customers bring their crashed laptops to me and want their pictures and videos removed. If I had something like this I wouldn't have to bother with placeing the HDD in and external enclosure and hooking it up via USB to my main PC. I could just pop it out of the bottom of the laptop and right into the HDD bay on my PC. This would also be awesome for large file transfers to my media center. 500gb of data over USB or 100mb ethernet is pretty terrible.
I think something like this would be very beneficial to me. Too many times have I had customers bring their crashed laptops to me and want their pictures and videos removed. If I had something like this I wouldn't have to bother with placeing the HDD in and external enclosure and hooking it up via USB to my main PC. I could just pop it out of the bottom of the laptop and right into the HDD bay on my PC. This would also be awesome for large file transfers to my media center. 500gb of data over USB or 100mb ethernet is pretty terrible.
Bought one today
solid piece of equipment I can see lots of benefits