ICY BOX 1.8" IB-181U-Z USB2.0 ZIF PATA HD Caddy

ICY BOX 1.8" USB2.0 ZIF PATA HD IB-181U-Z Caddy

ICY BOX 1.8" USB2.0 ZIF PATA HD IB-181U-Z Caddy. OK troops, something a little different here. Yet again those smart and clever chappies at Icy Box have come up with a "ZIF zero insertion force" caddy. Astounding, don't know how they do it.
Let me try and explain it. If you have ever fitted a processor into a motherboard you'll know that the processor drops into the little pin slots without any force, you then have to pull a lever to lock it in place. This caddy works exactly the same way, slide the Hard Drive connection pins into the caddy housing. Once in place, close the lever to lock it in place. That's it.
All this and it looks like a hip flask too. Get your colleagues to think you take a little nip on occasion, when your actually retrieving data, then again if you work in a distillery you might be retrieving pictures of a bottle of nice malt.

Please note the 9am delivery option is only available in the UK on orders placed before 2pm Mon - Friday.

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Product Details

ZIF Connector	Yes
Firewire 1394a	No
Firewire 1394b	No
IDE/PATA	No
SATA I	No
SATA II	No
USB1.0	Yes
USB2.0	Yes
e-SATA	No

Specification:

ICY BOX 1.8" IB 181U Z Data Sheet
1.8" PATA (IDE) HDD with ZIF socket
Light alloy, leatherette
Data transfer up to 480 Mbit/s
Supports Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Hot Swap
USB 2.0
USB bus power

	Weight	Ex VAT	Inc VAT
ICY BOX 1.8" USB2.0 ZIF PATA HD IB-181U-Z Caddy000763	0.65 kg	£11.91	£14.00
ICY BOX 1.8" USB2.0 ZIF PATA HD IB-181U-Z Caddy000763 9am Next Day	0.65 kg	£22.13	£26.00

Customer Reviews

Please Explain

Reviewed by Antony from Zurich, Switzerland

The reviewer above states "I used this caddy to hold a 1.8in Toshiba 100Gb drive, a MK1011GAH disk".

I would like to see this happen: the caddy is for 2.5mm or 5mm drive, not 8mm drives like the MK1011GAH. So either this was done with scotch tape, or this was not the correct drive id...

In any case I can't use it normally for my harddrive (an MK1011GAH).

Antony

September 2008

This review applies to the ICY BOX 1.8" USB2.0 ZIF PATA HD IB-181U-Z Caddy version.

SSD Testing

Reviewed by Web Admin from Barnsley

Hi Eric,

As far as I know, I dont think any testing has been done with this caddy & SSD HDD's.
I will check, and post more information here.

July 2008

Solid stae drive

Reviewed by Eric from France

Question in fact, not review.

Somebody test it with a SSD hard drive ?

July 2008

This review applies to the ICY BOX 1.8" USB2.0 ZIF PATA HD IB-181U-Z Caddy version.

Fits Toshiba 1.8in drives

Reviewed by Julian Field from Southampton, United Kingdom

I used this caddy to hold a 1.8in Toshiba 100Gb drive, a MK1011GAH disk. The connector on the drive looks like it takes a thin ribbon cable plugged straight in, no "connector" on the cable at all.
It works perfectly.
The caddy comes with a hard-wired USB cable and connector which is about 1.5in long (it folds into the case so its total length is the width of the caddy). This was a bit too short for my application (sticking the drive to the bottom of an Asus EEE laptop), but it fits reasonably well.
The caddy has activity lights on it, and works very well.

But all in all an excellently made product, which is well worth the money!

January 2008

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