Icy Dock MB971SP-B 5.25″ Hot Swap SATA Caddy Review

AIDA64 Extreme Edition is a streamlined Windows diagnostic and benchmarking software for home users. AIDA64 Extreme Edition provides a wide range of features to assist in overclocking, hardware error diagnosis, stress testing, and sensor monitoring. It has unique capabilities to assess the performance of the processor, system memory, and disk drives. AIDA64 is compatible with all current 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

With the caddy supporting both 2.5″ and 3.5″ drives, we first recorded a baseline speed for one of our Patriot Wildfire SSDs when directly connected to the systems motherboard via SATA.

 Similarly we also took one of our Seagate Barracuda 3TB drives and recorded the baseline performance result. In both cases this is done to see if there are any major bottlenecks when using the hot-swap bay.

When we compare the speeds achieved by our SSD, there are a few that record slightly faster speeds than before, and we do note that the block size is different. When testing AIDA tests through all the block sizes and then displays the best result that it found throughout the benchmark.

Similar to our SSD test, we found that our hard drive performed to its best when installed in the hot-swap bay with no interference.