Silverstone MS05 2.5" Enclosure
Manufacturer:Silverstone
UK Price (as reviewed):£22.33 (inc. VAT)
US Price (as reviewed):$45.99 (excl. Tax)
Just the other week, we looked at Silverstone’s Treasure TS01B enclosure, which sports RFID tagging to protect your data. Today, we’re going from that extreme to another as we look at Silverstone’s MS05 enclosure, which is targeted more at the no-nonsense end of the market. This is an enclosure for people who don’t care about looks that much, they just want something that works – an enclosure that reeks of functionality, with style as an afterthought.
That is probably why the MS05 looks like a shrunk-down photon torpedo or a scale model of a space shuttle in Buck Rogers. It could also be a Cylon mobile phone.
The TSO1B, Silverstone’s other recent HDD enclosure, and the MS05 have two things in common though despite the exterior differences. First and foremost, they both need a proper name as it’s quite annoying to call them both by their model numbers – model numbers don’t tend to work that well if Silverstone is trying to break into a wider market. Secondly, it has a single unique feature that it has been almost completely designed around, in this case it’s a docking station. We’ll get to that in a minute.
The MS05 is larger than the TS01B to a significant degree. While the TS01B was a diminutive 80 x 130 x 10mm (WxHxD), the MS05 is much thicker and bulkier at 85 x 160 x 15mm (WxHxD). While that difference may not seem like much in terms of the numbers, it actually makes a fair bit of difference when you actually carry the enclosure and there’s no denying that the MS05 is heavy when compared to other enclosures.
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