Tagan IB-390 Hard Drive Enclosure Review

Packaging and Accessories

It seems regardless of the actual unit contained therein, all ICY Box packages have the same packaging and color scheme. As with the Noctua NH-C12P we just recently reviewed there is an upside and a downside to doing this.


On the positive you do have a very eye catching box which will get you attention, but once the Icy Box line up has caught your eye, discerning one from the another becomes difficult. Luckily, the front cover picture is there otherwise potential customers would be left to decipher the naming scheme (if that is even possible!) to tell one box from another.


When you take a peak inside, the internal packaging scheme is one again the exact same setup as the its brethren, Tagan once again went for the two piece foam protection scheme in which the unit hovers blissfully in the center of the box. It may be the same as other Icy Box models but in this case this not a bad thing and in fact was very good to see. This is a very cost effective way of protecting the contents of the box, while keeping the weight of the unit low, both of which are good things when you are ordering it in from another province.


The Icy Box IB-390 comes with a great list of accessories which is actually even better than the previously reviewed IB-3220. You get the ubiquitous power brick, USB connector, SATA connector, installation pamphlet, a interesting key to open the enclosure and various screws and doodads. All this was expected and did not fail to impress us with its quality construction; what makes this unique and innovative was the docking port which turns this product from an external storage enclosure into an internal enclosure. This is bloody well brilliant and like all great refinements is so obvious in retrospect it must have taken a true genius to think up!