Introduction

RaidSonic, storage solutions without limits. RaidSonic was founded in 1999 in Hamburg. Since then, product portfolio and number of employees increased in a dynamic growth process. After the enormous success on the German market, RaidSonic is expanding rapid on the European market. Under the well known brands ICY DOCK, ICY BOX and Stardom in Europe, Raidsonic provides storage products from mobile racks, back plane modules, external storage cases to complete RAID systems. By the consequent use of high class components and materials RaidSonic positioned its products already in the upper level market segment in Europe.

RaidSonic enjoys a solid reputation for providing consistent quality and reliability. The manufacturer status enables RaidSonic to offer qualified technical support and short response time, not only to the distribution and OEM/EDM partners, but also to the end users. With the strong support from our innovative Research and Development team we are confident to provide our customers the highest quality products far into the future.

External hard drives are becoming more and more popular, the need to transfer large amounts of data between locations and PC's is more common than ever, and all of us know that we should backup important data, but so few of us do. RaidSonic has been very active on this market and has solutions in every shape and format. On of these exciting products is the ICY BOX IB-281U USB 2.0 external 2.5" drive enclosure, which is part of a growing family of external storage solutions that take advantage of USB 2.0's fast 480Mbps bandwidth.

RaidSonic ICY BOX IB-281U USB 2.0 Series

The ICY BOX IB-281U comes in a fairly small package, with a window cut to display the external drive enclosure. The box itself displays which ICY BOX model is enclosed and that it can be used on Windows and Mac compatible PC's using the USB connection. As indicated this is a case for 2.5" hard disks, which is very handy when you want to expand the storage space on your laptop without going through an expensive upgrade.

Checking the package a bit better we can see that RaidSonic has put a lot of effort in this really professional bundle. The box is attractive and lists only the main features on the front, while the product itself is shown via the transparent plastic window. On packaging their products RaidSonic certainly knows their world. It is simple though fancy enough to attract potential buyers.

On each side of the box we can find back different details. So by turning it in rounds you get a full picture on features and specifications of the RaidSonic ICY BOX IB-281U external case enclosure. On the sides you find these details in different languages. As RaidSonic is based in Germany the main details are listed in German. But on top they make sure all is translated in the different languages that are needed.

By turning the package around we get to the back of the box. The back of the box is revealing the specifications in more details and also giving some images on the actual external case. So we can say that RaidSonic has made an excellent package with lots of information put on the box to make clear what this product is capable of in terms of external storage extension.