ByteCC ME-350U2 Aluminum 3.5" HDD External Enclosure

Introducing the ME-350 External 3.5" HDD Mobile Enclosure from ByteCC. The ME-350 is a very useful device that allows you to place a hard drive (up to 300gb and above) inside, and make it into an external hard drive. This is a great way to transfer large files from system to system and even use as an additional 'part-time' hard drive. ByteCC makes the ME-350 in a firewire only version (ME-350F), a USB 2.0 version (ME-350U2), one that has both USB 2.0 and firewire (ME-350U2F) and even another that has both USB 2.0 and Serial ATA (ME-350U2SA). The one we'll take a look at in this review is the USB 2.0 version.

Features~

• Aluminum external enlosure will cool down 3.5" HDD easily
• Allows device hot-swapping(Plug and Play)
• Support HDD over 300GB
• Fashion cooling LED light
• CE/FCC approval
• Self power(power consumption 5V/1.5A & 12V/1.5A)
• To save space can be set vertically
• Product dimension: 122 x 133 x126mm
• Product net weight: 518g

• Pentium 266 Mhz or higher
• 64MB RMA or higher
• CD-ROM drive
• USB 2.0 or USB 1.1 host ports (for USB version)

USB 2.0~

• Supports USB2.0 transfer rates of 12 Mbps and 480 Mbps
• USB 2.0/ IDE compliant
• Supports ATA-7 PIO modes 0-4 & UDMA modes 0-5 of operation
• Support Ultra ATA/ 133 & UDMA 5
• 40 times faster than USB 1.1

Inside the large and well packaged box you have everything you'll need (with the exception of a hard drive). You have very good instructions, power cord, switching power adapter, USB A to B cable, driver mini-cd, stand and of course the external aluminum enclosure.

Packaged inside the enclosure are the parts you see below. You have the back plate, screws and the control unit that has the needed connections. They all come in the plastic bag you see in the left picture. The control unit has an ide and power connectors that you attach to the hard drive you'll be using.

On the rear are the inputs where you connect the usb cable and the power. The switch on the left is a power on/off control. All the parts seem very well-built, not flimsy at all. And don't let the parts scare you, assembling everything is a piece of cake. Which we'll cover next.