Packaging and Accessories

Both SATA hard drive enclosures came in very similar looking boxes, and in our minds this is not a bad thing. In fact, the colour scheme of blue and white is very appealing. It may be a little understated for some but we have never been ones who go in for garish neon colours or over the top packagin. In many ways these boxes remind us of a good high end Tilley “endurable” hat. It may not look like much but it does have a style all its own; and more importantly it works regardless of the environment you put it in.


As we have mentioned in the past, using the same colour scheme for multiple lines of equipment does have a potential down side. This downside being that can be confusing to first time customers to distinguish from one product to the next. No one likes buying “kit A” just to find out they accidentally bought “kit B”. Luckily, this should not be an issue as the front of these boxes have huge pictures showing exactly what product is lurking inside. Of course, both boxes are also plastered with lots of information to further help discerning customers differentiate not only between the different product models but also different manufacturers.


When you open up each of these boxes and peak inside you are greeted to a tried and true method of further protecting the contents of the box from blunt force trauma. In a nutshell, the enclosure in each box is held in the center of the package by two large pieces of Styrofoam. This has been become the darn near ubiquitous option of choice amongst enclosure manufactures as it is cheap to produce, lightweight and yet an extremely effective and reliable way of protecting the precious cargo from life’s bumps and bruises.


Both enclosures come with a very sparse list of accessories which is keeping with their intended price range. The internal unit comes with pamphlet, mounting screws and two keys. The external enclosure comes with a instruction manual and pamphlet on other Ineo products, screws, USB and eSATA cable and a power brick. All in all the quality is decent and certainly above what you expect from value oriented models.