Ineo NA307 & NA302Ue Hard Drive Enclosures Review

Installation

NA307

Installing the NA307 internal enclosure is very simple and straightforward. All one must do is install the unit into any free 5.25 bay in your computer case, and plug in a SATA cable and power cable. When this is accomplished you can then add in a hard drive.


Depending on whether or not the enclosure is locked or not you may have to first unlock it by using on of the included keys. When it is unlocked you can then press on the eject button to have the front door pop open.


You then simply pull the door out and insert your hard drive with its ports pointed towards the back. When the drive is in as far it will go you can simply close the spring-loaded door to fully seat the drive. You then relock the door (if you don’t the unit will not initialize). At this point the unit is ready to be used, by simply starting up your computer. It will be recognized as another internal drive so you may have to assign it a drive letter (in your OS) like you would any other new drive.


NA302


The NA302 has a slightly more lengthy install but it is by no means difficult and is in fact fairly simple and intuitive.

To start the installation procedure you remove the four screws and then the top cover (just like we did in the Internal Impressions section). When this is accomplished you put your SATA hard drive in place and gently seat it so its connectors are mated to the enclosure's connectors.


When this is accomplished you then reinstall the cover and the four screws and gently flip the unit over. As you can see in the above picture there are four screw holes on the bottom which line up with the four screw holes on the bottom of the hard drive. By using the included screws you are not only securing the drive but are in effect fusing the drive to a rather large heatsink! This should certainly have a positive effect on drive temperatures and does help make up for all that non useful mesh!

Whether or not it has a positive effect or not, your external enclosure just needs to have its power plug inserted and the appropriate connector (USB or eSATA) and this unit is good to go.