Icy Dock: Helping you PCIe All The Things

Icy Dock Model numbers
MB840M2P-B (M.2 NVMe SSD to PCIe 3.0 x4 Mobile Rack for PCIe Expansion Slots)
MB873MP-B (8 xM.2 NVMe SSD Backplane Cage for 5.25" Bay)
MB699VP-B (Full Metal 4 Bay 2.5" U.2 NVMe SSD Backplane Cage)

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Intro and Outro Music: "Earth Bound" by Slynk
Other Music: "Lively" & "FollowHer" Zeeky Beats

[Purkkaviritys]

The 8x M.2 Nvme box really looks like an interesting way to handle flash storage for virtual machines so its realatively easy to access the devices while having high capacity.

[ufsteropolstero]

5:40 that Noctua fan casually sandwiched between the Radeon Pro GPU and what I presume to be a PCIe NVME raid card is awesomely ghetto for such a high end system.

[LukeoftheTauri]

IcyDock, apply directly to the workstation!

[dextpl]

I recently bought their 3x5, 25 -> 4x3, 5" HDD cage. I'm very surprise by how high quality it is. Almost all metal construction, really nice controls, easy to use design and zero vibrations.

[tim]

3:15 Wow... you're like the one YouTuber who understands how cables work.
The idiots screeching about how AMD "caused" the problems with 4.0 graphics cards/motherboards connected through PCIE 3.0 16x riser cables were hilarious.

[cheesefries]

I had no idea about the longer GND pins and hot-swap design. Thanks! Learned something today!

[utp]

I love Icy Dock! I have quite a few bay adapters that I use. Great company producing great products!

[SomeTechGuy]

Great video. It's great to have a computer tech channel that isn't gaming focused.

[ravewulf]

I found Icy Dock back when they had USB 2.0/Firewire external SATA enclosures and it's been really cool seeing how their products have evolved since then.

[HikariKnight]

I love ICY-DOCK they make a lot of pretty good stuff, i unintentionally have ended up with quite a few of their products at work and at home 😅

[SomeTechGuy]

So many "standards", so many connector formats, so many headaches !

I loved the x8 NVMe cage until I realized there would be 8 cables behind it. I'm not sure what to think about that.

[LaserFur]

I bought a MB840M2P-B and a extra MB840TP-B tray for switching between windows or linux .

[Owenzzz]

Icy Dock is really cool. I stumbled upon their 5.25” quad U.2 enclosure a couple of years ago, and there were many long nights involved in trying to get U.2 drives hot swap on an ASUS X299 workstation motherboard and that high point U.2 carrier card working. The project was eventually abandoned but that was a fun time. Now I have the 5.25” 8x SATA enclosure in my NAS. Very cool company

[benjaminoechsli]

Ah, now this is the kind of tech that's going to get us going places. We have the processors, we have the storage, but the middleman between the two needs work. Will definitely give these guys a look.

[Tigrisshark]

ICY-DOCK been around for ages in Europe. Used to have multiple of their drive-bays in my Tower (back when IDE still was a thing). For me they always worked great, but I only used them in a prosumer-kind of way.

[johndicus]

I love Icy Dock! I had one of the 2.5" SSD four-bay enclosures and liked it because it only took one Power plug to run all four (along with the four SATA cables). I just paid my SSD's in the trays and slid them in. They worked fine until one day I turned the righ sideways to do something and a couple of the SSD's came off the sled enough that I could not open the doors to take them out. They still worked, but one time I was taking it down again to play around and decided I'd take the enclosure out. I was able to turn it upside down and knock on it a bit and the SSD's dropped into place and I could open the doors. I added the enclosed screws (8 ea) to the bottom of the sleds to secure the drives, and all has been fine since.
Oh, I hooked a 120MM fan to the bottom of the enclosure blowing filtered air up from below and the SSD's stay super cool.

[JaredJanhsen]

I love these Icy Dock devices. They've had some of the best gear for adapting drives. I also love the case being made for software RAID over hardware these days. 10M IOPS per core is really making hardware RAID controllers just storage with extra steps.

[droknron]

I've bought some Icy Dock products before and while the caddies are good quality the fans they use on them have not been. I purchased 6 caddy's that each had 2 fans and at-least one fan broke in every single caddy within 6 months. On some models 2 broke. I requested replacements and they were nice enough to send me just the fans so I could replace them myself.

Several of the fans came with broken blades, like literally blades missing that weren't even inside the packaging. Of the fans that did work they failed within 24 hours to 3 months. So again I liked the caddys, good mechanical engineering on their part but the fans are atrocious. I ended up replacing the fans with Noctuas which wasn't a walk in the park due to Icy dock using custom connectors on the ones I purchased but splicing did work.

[ericepperson]

One of the smartest people I know in IT convinced me that software RAID was the way to go at home. His massive home automation array could boot in seconds. When he had a hardware array everything took forever to reboot.

[xXfzmusicXx]

Can you please do a dedicated video on the 8x M.2 enclosure? That thing looks amazing, and I would love to know more.