Installation Procedure

The installation of the RaidSonic ICY BOX doesn't require any experience and is quite easy and user friendly process. First of all we need of course a suitable hard disk, and since the ICY BOX comes with a normal ATA interface we need to match it accordingly. Next to that it has to be a 3.5" drive. So, we picked up a Maxtor 120GB Ultra ATA/133 (DiamondMax Plus 9) hard drive which will be used for carrying out the installation procedure and the testing of the unit.

Let's just put it all together... We have a hard drive, the ICY BOX IB-360UE-BL housing and some screws. That's it; we are set to go an install the hard drive to become a mobile storage device. First of all we check the settings of the hard drive. What should it be? We can set it to be master, slave or cable select. Well for an external storage solution that doesn't matter, so we take the easy way and leave the drive on cable select.

Where it all comes down to is to just take the hard drive and put it in the aluminum case. Once that is done we connect the power molex to the hard disk and do the same with the IDE cable. That shouldn't be anything major till now. Then we turn over the aluminum case and take the screws that came with the bundle and use those to secure the hard disk. When that is done the hard drive is installed and now it is just a matter of assembling the remaining parts.

And then we can just slide the Maxtor 1120GB hard drive safely in the ICY BOX aluminum housing and use the remaining screws to fix the case holding the hard drive to the aluminum housing. This way the hard drive is well protected by a case to hold all the hardware components and interconnections. While the housing will be to close it all off and give it a professional and appealing look. To wrap it all up we just need to apply the curved stand.

That's it, all set to go and play with our new toy. We just need to attach the power supply and the USB 2.0 or FireWire cable... So the end user has the choice on which interface to use or better which interface his computer can support. In our case we have both USB 2.0 and FireWire ports available and will compare both in terms of performance and data transfer capabilities.

The RaidSonic storage solution like the ICY BOX IB-360UE-BL series are compatible for us with Windows or Mac based operating systems. So both players that are commonly known by the end users are supported. All Apple owners can also go out and buy this external storage solution and expand their storage capacity thanks to RaidSonic's ICY BOX solution.