Ineo NA307 & NA302Ue Hard Drive Enclosures Review

Internal Impressions (NA307)

To open up the NA307 internal enclosure one simply removes four countersunk screws on the back and gently pries off the entire back of the enclosure. When this is done only a couple screws stand between you and your insatiable curiosity on what is located on the back of the PCB.


Unfortunately, the back of the PCB is even more bereft of any interesting parts as the front is. While it may be anticlimactic all in all this lack of controllers means that this is nothing more than a power and data bridge. The upside to this is the hard drive in the enclosure will be recognized as just another internally connected hard drive and more importantly, the 40mm fan's air movement will not have to cool any hot running controller chips.

The downside is that a lot of passive SATA bridges can add a significant amount of latency and some cases even cut a little bit off the top end of a hard drive's performance envelope. It will be interesting to see if this is the case with this unit.


The 40mm fan is easily removed by simply unscrewing a couple of screws. As you can see this is a Power Logic Sleeved Bearing 7 bladed fan model PL40S12L that is rated for an insane 4000rpm; and at this speed it moved a meager 3.16CFM @ 2mm of H20 static pressure. More importantly, this fan uses the standard 2 pin connector and thus if it is not up to your standards (noise or cooling) you can easily swap it out for a more powerful one.