---
product_id: 9896984
title: "ICY DOCK FlexCage MB973SP-2B Tray-less 3 Bay 3.5\" SATA Hard Drive Backplane Cage with 2 port USB 3.0 Hub in 2x 5.25\" Bay"
brand: "icy dock"
price: "C$692"
currency: NIO
in_stock: false
reviews_count: 7
url: https://www.desertcart.ni/products/9896984-icy-dock-flexcage-mb973sp-2b-tray-less-3-bay-3
store_origin: NI
region: Nicaragua
---

# ICY DOCK FlexCage MB973SP-2B Tray-less 3 Bay 3.5" SATA Hard Drive Backplane Cage with 2 port USB 3.0 Hub in 2x 5.25" Bay

**Brand:** icy dock
**Price:** C$692
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** ICY DOCK FlexCage MB973SP-2B Tray-less 3 Bay 3.5" SATA Hard Drive Backplane Cage with 2 port USB 3.0 Hub in 2x 5.25" Bay by icy dock
- **How much does it cost?** C$692 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ni](https://www.desertcart.ni/products/9896984-icy-dock-flexcage-mb973sp-2b-tray-less-3-bay-3)

## Best For

- icy dock enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted icy dock brand quality
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- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Description

FlexCage MB973SP-2B Tray-Less 3x3.5" in 2x5.25" SATA HDD Cage

## Features

- About this item
- Fits 3 x 3.5” SATA III HDD into 2 x 5.25” Device Bays.     Supports SATA 3 (6 Gb/s) hard drives.     Compact and space saving design to fit multiple drives.     Designed for consumers & enthusiasts gaming / media computer cases and servers.     Tray-less design for genuine plug & play and hot swap use.

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great for HDD Expansion and Access
  

*by T***T on Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2014*

This unit is installed in an older Dell Dimension XPS PC by no means the fastest computer but it serves my purposes.  I needed to upgrade from Win XP to Win 7 and decided to significantly expand storage capacity at the same time.  There was an available 5.25" drive bay but I had to remove a factory installed CD drive to get additional space for this device. The PC came with both, a CD drive and a CD/DVD RW drive though.  So, I still have an optical drive.  There was a thin plastic divider between the two drive bays that had to be removed by cutting it so the FlexCage would fit.  In addition to the FlexCage, I installed a PCI eSata expansion card (a older Siig PCI 4 internal port SATA expansion card), a PCI IDE to Dual SATA Converter (StarTech PATA2SATA2), a PCI USB 5 port expansion card (3 external, 2 internal).  I also replaced all the factory installed internal HDD (2-120GB SATA RAID-0 configuration and 1-80GB IDE) with Western Digital Black SATA HDD (1-1TB and 2-2TB).  The FlexCage has the same drive configuration.  These changes were not without some minor issues like Win 7 drivers, BIOS setting changes, etc.  But, I now have a PC with a safer, supported operating system and much greater storage and backup capacity (from 320GB to 10TB).  I use the HDD in the FlexCage as boot drive clone and backup for the internal drives.  Western Digital has a fairly good free version of Acronis that may be downloaded from their website for use with WD HDD. If this seems like overkill for an old PC it probably is but I had a 2TB HDD crash several years ago and had the unfortunate experience of having to pay a company to recover the files --- never again better safe than sorry!  For my application I could not be more pleased with the FlexCage.  My intention is to build my next PC in a few months and I should be able to use the FlexCage and all the drives in the new computer.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    ICY DOCK FlexCage MB973SP-2B is the best
  

*by G***M on Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2014*

ICY DOCK FlexCage MB973SP-2B is the best, I've tried others but this model has worked the best. I have 2 now and they are all working great. Easy to install. I use them with the ICY DOCK EZConvert PRO MB982SP-1S , easy in and out.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Top Notch
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2015*

great fit. works like its supposed to work.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-17*