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"Kingwin Portable 5.25" Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure"
SUMMARY: Attractive package, good cooling performance in an external 5.25" drive enclosure.
The good guys at Kingwin were nice enough to send a sample of the Kingwin Portable Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure (KH-525U-BK) to try out. This is an external 5.25" drive enclosure that has its own 30 watt power supply - there is also a version that includes a Firewire port (uses the Oxford 911 chipset for Firewire) in addition to the USB port for higher throughput; both version come in either silver of black.
Key Features
These are quite bright and, in a darkened room, the blue LED will give enough enough light for a decent night, or mood, light. It's also cool to see the orange LED flicker on and off during data transfers.
One other feature I think is very good are the holes in the base for both CDs and hard drives:
No need to buy an adapter kit to use this for a 3.5" hard drive. In addition, with all that space, the cooling for a hot drive is quite good - more on that later.
The back shows
ports for power, USB and audio jacks for use with CD ROMs; the power switch and fan are clearly visible. Also note that there are four small black screws holding the back to the case - you remove these, the back slips out,
and then you can remove the top cover - the enclosure now looks like this:
Reverse the process after a drive is installed (why the paper documentation shipped with the enclosure does not show this is beyond me). One thing I will note is that fitting the cover into the enclosure's top rails is a bit finicky - the tolerances are on the tight side (not bad, BTW).
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