Review of the Sans Digital MobileSTOR MS2UT+B 2 Bay Drive Enclosure

FITTING A HARD DRIVE

This is probably the hardest part of the whole process, and to be honest, it isn’t that hard at all. You have to take one of the little keys and press it into a recessed hole on the front of the relevant drive bay.

This will pop open the drive door.

You can then slide out the empty drive bay.

You will notice that there is a bar on the back of the drive bay which stops you from sliding in a drive – you have to remove this.

Just take a screwdriver and remove the screws on each side of the bar.

Then it’s just a case of fitting the hard drive in the bay and using the pack of screws that came in the box to tighten the drive in place.

Then just slide the drive back into the MS2UT and click the drive bay closed.

SETTING THE RAID LEVEL

There are two different ways of setting the RAID level – either by using the buttons on the front of the unit and the LCD display, or by using the RAID Dial on the back of the unit.

The back of the unit is by far the simplest option and you just choose from the 8 available options, which are labelled on the back for you as well. If you want to use the buttons and LCD option you will need to set the dial to 7- GUI mode, so why not just set the dial to the level you want anyway?

It’s really easy, however my only complaint here is that it is really difficult to tell if you have it set on1 or 5 – basically you cant easily tell which is the top or bottom of the dial because it is so small.

USING THE MS2UT

Switching the unit on was a simple as flicking a switch. It all powers into life and does it’s thing. Depending on the RAID level you have chosen will depend on what it then does and how long it takes.

The LCD tells you about the drives and the lights on the front give you warnings if necessary. There is even an option to mute warnings, but I really don’t understand why anyone would want to do that! If you want to protect your data, why turn off a warning?

Windows recognised the “drive” and I was using it in no time at all. There was no additional software needed, which is good, because there wasn’t any provided!