THE ICY BOX IB-3640SU3

If someone said that the IB-3640SU3 looks a lot like a NAS unit they'd be right largely because of the many LEDs and buttons at the front and its rather large size (215mm length, 126mm height and 166mm width).

To show just how large the 4 bay IB-3640SU3 is compared to a dual bay solution i placed it right next to the IB-NAS5520 (again by RaidSonic).

One of the things i really like with this enclosure is the large door at the front which covers all 4 drive bays.

However the various buttons and LEDs placed at the top are even more impressive. So here we see the on/off button, interface button (switch between eSATA and USB), sync button (shuts down and turns on the device same as your system) and the fan button (auto, manual 50%/75%/100%).

The ICY BOX logo is placed at the lower end of the front door.

The logo is also placed on both sides while the DC power input is placed at he right side.

As expected the rear of the unit is also black.

There's an 80mm exhaust fan placed at the rear right above the eSATA and USB 3.0 connectors.

I was surprised to see that behind the front door there was a large metal plate instead of the usual drive trays.

Well it seems that in order to mount the drives you just need to remove the door (via the two top clips) and then slide the drives in place.

Before you do that however you need to attach the front spacer on each drive as seen above (used to fill the gap between the metal plate and the drive). Now i really think that it would be far easier if RaidSonic had placed pads on the metal plate to cover that gap and keep the drives in place but this works as well.