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The Addonics Mobile Rack II is a removable drive kit designed specially to turn an Serial ATA hard drive into a hot swap removable hard drive. Constructed with Aluminum for use in harsh and rough handling environment, the enclosure provides sturdy hard drive protection and efficient heat dissipation for the high RPM Serial ATA hard drive.

Turn SATA hard drive into SCSI
By attaching an optional SATA - SCSI converter onto the back of the drive cradle, you can instantly connect any SATA hard drive to a SCSI controller. You can now replace the expensive SCSI hard drive with a low cost, high performance and high capacity SATA hard drive. Since the SATA hard drive can easily be removed from the drive cradle, the same drive can be interchanged with other drive cradles connected in a SATA system.

When the hard drive is removed from the drive cradle, it can also be conveniently used as an external Serial ATA hard drive by attaching the Addonics optional Serial ATA power adapter and external Serial ATA cable.

To match the color of your computers, you also have a choice of black or ivory color.

Product Features

• Support any 3.5" Serial ATA hard drive
• Rugged aluminum construction for rough handling and fast cooling
• Cooling fan inside enclosure to improve air circulation
• Point to point Serial ATA connection (no cable to connect hard drive to enclosure)
• Power and hard drive access* indicators
• Keylock plus power control
• Install into any 5 1/4" drive bay as a removable hard drive
• Hot swappable (1), hard drive can be removed or add to the system without restarting*
• Convert any Serial ATA hard drive into an external Serial ATA hard drive with the optional Addonics Serial ATA power adapter and external Serial ATA cable
• OS independent
• Simple installation
  
  *for the second generation of Mobile Racks with various improvements, click on the link for Saturn Mobile Rack

* Drive access signal is from Serial ATA controller. The primary drive (usually the drive C) cannot be removed from the system.
(1) Serial ATA hot swap feature works only with controllers basing on Silicon Image chip set from our inhouse testing. Other controllers that are not Silicon Image based may not support hot swap. You may consider adding one of the Addonics Serial ATA host controllers to your systems to ensure the hot swap capability. New controllers from Intel and other suppliers may finally support this feature. Please verify with your controller manufacturer if you need to have hot swap in your application. Hot swap is supported in Windows 2000 and XP only. On other OS, drive can be removed without crashing system. But replacing with a different drive can result in crashing the OS.

You can install any hard drive in less than a minute, simply pull out the drive enclosure and follow the procedure below: For more detail, check the user guide.

To build a hot swap removable Serial ATA hard drive system, install the drive cradle into a 5 1/4" drive bay as shown in the instructions below. You can now use the drive enclosure with the Serial ATA hard drive like a drive cartridge by sliding in and out of the drive cradle, without restarting* your computer.

Model and Price

Model	Description and Package Content	Click shopping cart to check price and order online
Black color
AENRHDSA35-R	Aluminium removable Hard Drive kit for 3.5" Serial ATA hard drive Contents: Drive enclosure (AAHDSA35CS-R), Drive Cradle (AAHDSA35BY-R), 1 internal SATA data cable (AASACIDC18I)	$38

Model	Description and Package Content	Click shopping cart to check price and order online
Ivory color
AENRHDSA35W-R	Aluminium removable Hard Drive kit for 3.5" Serial ATA hard drive Contents: Drive enclosure (AAHDSA35CSW-R), Drive Cradle (AAHDSA35BYW-R), 1 internal SATA data cable (AASACIDC18I)	$38

Recommended Optional Accessories

Model #	Description and Package Content	Click shopping cart to check price and order online
AAHDSA35CS-R	Mobile Rack II enclosure (black color) for 3.5" Serial ATA hard drive	$19
AAHDSA35BY-R	Mobile Rack II Serial ATA drive cradle (black color) for 5 14" drive bay - include 1 18" internal SATA data cable (AASAIDC18I)	$26
AAHDSA35CSW-R	Mobile Rack II enclosure (ivory color) for 3.5" Serial ATA hard drive	$19
AAHDSA35BYW-R	Mobile Rack II Serial ATA drive cradle (ivory color) for 5 14" drive bay - include 1 18" internal SATA data cable (AASAIDC18I)	$26
AASAEDC3F	External Serial ATA cable - 3 feet	$9
AASAPS	110/220V power adapter for Serial ATA hard drive	$25

Specifications

All specifications are subject to change without notice

System Requirements

• PC/AT or Compatible System
• One available 5 1/4" drive bay (for drive cradle installation)
• One Serial ATA port
• 486, Pentium or greater