Koutech IO-FPM320 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD Hot-Swap Bay & Internal Card Reader - Retail

Perfect for my needs. I was looking for some back up storage that was quick and easy. This device is it. I have a few notebook drives laying around that don't get used, they will no. I can throw in a SSD, Sata drives, and its a card reader. I have yet...

None as of yet

Looks fine, but read the cons

But was drawn back when I saw that even though it says 2.5 SATA HDD, it actually renders any SATA drive to perform like a USB drive, not a SATA drive (nothing to do with performances you can get from an external drive using eSATA connection). They...

Adds memory card flexibility plus a 2.5" SATA drive bay ; Does just what it was designed to do

Poor build quality. Had to RMA the first one. NewEgg customer service is outstanding

Plug & Play in my Vista x64, Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P, MoBo

As others stated its case looks cheaply made but the face looks good. Heck for this kind of money ; Only two of the 4 mounting holes lined up (1 on each side), no biggy ; The HDD takes a firm push/pull to insert and remove. Yawn

The concept of a hot swap bay is great

Too bad it doesn't work in practice

Inexpensive and works great. Installed it in my case and when I booted into Windows 7, 64-bit, everything was loaded and ready. So far I have only used the 2.5" HD slot and the SD reader and both worked fine. The SD reader was pretty speedy when...

Looks cheap when not installed. Red LED doesn't match the blue LED's on my case

SD card reader works

2.5" HDD reader and other ports do not work properly

Works with all my camara cards. Put them in and instant reading of the cards. Fast downloading to my computer. Recommend to anyone

No Cons

Cheap

Hot swap bay is unreliable

Card readers work very well! It has been identified with Windows XP, Vista, and 7, as well as Linux Ubuntu 9.10 and Mint 8

Flimsy. Right out of the box the whole unit fell to pieces. However, it didn't look like it was broken to the point beyond use. I simply put it back together and I haven't really had any problems with it (of course I immediately attached it to the case...