Vizo Shuttle Review

This is the final installment in my trilogy of Vizo reviews. The Vizo Shuttle is an external USB 2.0 2.5" enclosure. Yes, this will let you hook up a laptop hard drive to your desktop, and vice versa. This device has the potential to be quite useful, if Vizo can work out a couple of issues.

In the box

The box has the Shuttle, a USB 2.0 cable, and a carrying case. The USB 2.0 cable has a grand total of 3 plugs. I have no idea what they are all for, the manual doesn't say. The carrying case is nice, and acts like a sheath for the Shuttle.

There is also a manual, but it isn't translated that well.

The Shuttle

The shuttle is slightly larger than a 2.5" drive. It has a status light, a USB type C plug, and a AC Adaptor plug. I don't know what the AC adaptor plug is for, it doesn't need external power to work, and it wasn't included.

Installing a drive into the shuttle involves unscrewing the backplate, attaching the backplate to the drive, placing the backplate/drive assembly back into the shuttle, and screwing it all back in.

The Shuttle is very picky with what size drives it allows. I tried it with an older compaq drive, that fits in most laptops, and it was 2mm too high to fit. The more recent drives appear to work fine.

I also ran into a problem with the backplate, it is only glued onto the circuit board, and it popped off when I was installing it. Fortunately, I was able to attach the drive to the circuit board, and then screw the plastic backplate over it so it all stayed together.

Once I got past the installation problems, it worked perfectly. Installing is as simple as hooking it up to the USB cable, and plugging it into your computer. It then shows up as a normal drive, that you can format, defrag, move files to and from, and etc.

Conclusion

This would be a great piece of hardware, if they would fix those minor issues with the AC adaptor port, and the backplate. For now, they get a solid 3 stars.