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The Portwell EZDRV-300 fits into a 5.25" drive bay, and what makes it really unique is that is contains a CD-ROM, floppy drive and hard drive in just one bay!
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Portwell EZDRV-300NCF Review
Every once in a while we stubble across a really useful product.
The Portwell EZDRV-300 fits into a 5.25" drive bay, and what makes it really
unique is that is contains a CD-ROM, floppy drive and hard drive in just one
bay! The unit manages to squeeze in all these things because it uses drives
originally designed for notebooks - stack up an ultra-thin CD-ROM, FDD, and a
3.5" HDD and they are less than 40mm in height.
Ultimately this set of drives is the perfect
space saver for cases which have run out of free bays, for serves where
expansion space is always limited, or for anyone faced with installing or
testing lots of computers (like a IT person) that generally carries around a
HDD, FDD and CDROM taped together to get the job done. Of course that last one
won't apply to many of you, but in terms of space saving capabilities this is
one very compact solution. It can give any server, or for that matter any case,
some well deserved extra room for burners, zip drives, RAID drives, or whatever.
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The
Portwell EZDRV-300NCF
- 5.25" bay formfactor
- Contains; 24x NB CDROM, NB Floppy, NB 3.5" 6Gig HDD
- Black front bezel
- Rear hookups for IDE, FDD, and Molex power
connector
- IDE master/slave jumper select
- Made by: Portwell
- Cost: ~$125 - $230 (HDD
extra)
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Items |
Descriptions |
| Construction |
Heavy
duty steel with plastic front cover |
| Drive Housing |
External: 1xNB CD-ROM + 1xNB FDD (or 1x3.5" FDD)
Internal: 1xNB 2.5" HDD |
| Drive Cover |
1 x NB
CD-ROM front cover
1 x NB FDD front cover
1 x 3.5" FDD
side cover |
| Switch |
1 x
Reset, 1 x ON/OFF (only for
EZDRV-300) |
| Switch Protection Cap |
One
ON/OFF switch protection cap included (only for EZDRV-300) |
| Display LED |
1 x
ON/OFF, 1 x HDD |
| Mounting Holes |
Standard
5.25" drive holes reserved |
| Temperature and Humidity |
Operating : 0-55°C, 20-90%RH
Storage : 0-70°C,
5-95%RH |
| Vibration |
5-15Hz,
0.25G p-p / 15-500Hz, 2.5G p-p |
| Dimension |
149 (W)
x 163 (D) x 43 (H) mm / 5.9"(W) x 6.4"(D) x 1.7"(H) |
| Weight |
Gross
: 2Kg / 4.8Lb. Net : 1.5 Kg / 3.3 Lb |
| Color |
Black |  Installing the drives is as simple as
installing any other device into a 5.25" bay. The back of the unit has
connectors for one IDE and FDD cable, and one Molex connector powers all three
devices. If the 3.5" notebook hard drive is being used as the systems main
drive, a lead wire can be connected to the motherboard to power a drive activity
LED on the face of the unit. Both the CD-ROM and the Hard Drive connect up to
the same IDE header, and a jumper can be set to switch between master and slave
settings.
Let's move on and see how the CD-ROM and HDD
performed under Sandra.
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