Scope of supply:
Supplied located
an AC adapter 12V 2A,
a USB3.0 cable 1m,
Housing parts,
Electronics module,
Mounting hardware,
and a 'rudimentary' instructions.
Appearance:
The shape is kept simple edgy; Did sharp are not available. The aluminum is roughly brushed and has, depending on the angle of view as a different color. In a shallow angle, the FP-housing looks more antrazitfarben and at a more acute angle one recognizes the typical brushed aluminum. The front and rear part are made of matt, black plastic; in the front sits the oblong, blue status light that does not dazzle.
From the outside, no screws are visible.
Assembly:
When assembling the Borungen the hard disk to be involved, what I 'refined' personally find. The manual is hardly usable, just a numbered exploded view is shown; Here my preceding example (tweezers recommended).
The counterpart to the guide rail in the housing is mounted on the two rear lateral holes of the hard disk. Then the rubber spacers front is centrally glued to the hard drive. The front is screwed to the front holes of the plate next. Now the hard drive heckvorran is pushed into the housing with the cable for FrontLED to the guide rail in the housing is done. Only now the board is placed on the plate. Now with the forceps plug the cable for FrontLED to the white socket. Finally put on the rear part and tighten.
Here are two thin, self-adhesive Kunsstoffstreifen. Tailored to about 2.5 cm I use them as "feet" so that the aluminum is not resting directly. Otherwise I would not know what they are supposed to be good.
Ergonomics:
The FP-housing can also be set up wonderfully upright. In this case, the connections are down and the on / off switch easily accessible above.
Operation:
One use technical advantage of this FP-housing is that it has no on / off switch, but a button, which combines advantages of both worlds.
If the cabinet is turned on and the computer shuts down or goes into standby, the FP-housing switches off or goes into standby. If the computer is now booted or woken up again, the case is automatically turned on again; convenient for people who want to use the hard drive permanently. If the FP-housing but must be permanently switched off after switching off the casing just the on / off button is pressed and the housing blaubt from.
What the case is now consumed in standby I have not measured it, but I appreciate that there are no more than a few tens of milliwatts.
Processing:
The outside of the case is very well made. The plastic visor complete flush and there can be seen no screws; Material errors are also not available.
Inside it's two split. Highlight is the hard drive bracket of metal, which guarantees a relatively unimpeded heat transfer between hard drive and aluminum housing.
Otherwise my front LED cable has yet some difficulties. The cable was fixed to the front panel with hot glue, but have used a little too much of it; it had to be removed from some hot glue to screw the bezel.
Moreover, you could push the disk nich with attached circuit board and attached LED cable into the housing, (therefore the Frickelei during installation) the cable jammed constantly on the Führungssschiene. The connection of cable ends and connectors has been affected; they lößten from plug but could be reattached.
Hardware:
As a bridge chip performs a MB86C31 Fujitsu Siemens his work. It supporting the USB standard 1.1 to 3.0 and SATA II (3Gb / s) standard. Also the UAS protocol, NCQ, 4KiB sectors, hard drives are supported larger 2TB (using 3TB hard drive itself) and a few gimmicks.
Conclusion:
The housing is celebrating more or less a Nieschendasein, any reviews or other experiences of buyers. I can not quite understand, because the case has been really Constructed very good and thoughtful. Solely the teething problems when installing I have to complain otherwise it is recommended absololut and especially an eye-catcher. As it is technically with the durability, will turn out in the coming years. After a year I will report again if necessary, how does the FP-housing.
MfG
