2.5" SATA-USB2.0/1394A Case | List Price: $54.90
Discount Price: $31.41
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Brand: Macally
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- 2.5" SATA to USB 2.0/ 1394A Firewire Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure
Great Little Enclosure and FIrewire too! [Posted on 2008-04-21]
This is a great little enclosure. It's easy to install a 2.5" sata drive (make sure you do in fact have a sata drive, and not an ata drive. The case is solid, and seems to dissipate heat very well. I have two of these and they stack together very well. There are two rubber strips along the top and bottom that allows for stacking.
The runs off power from your computer using either usb 2.0 and the even better Firewire.
The only slight flaw is that the little blue light on the front of the enclosure is really quite bright and may be a distraction. This can easily be solved with a small piece of tape, or by the way you place the drive.
All and all a very good choice for extra hard drive you have on hand, or if your replacing a hard drive you could just move all your stuff very easily.
Correct for SATA drives [Posted on 2008-05-24]
I was not so familiar with the intimate technological history of little disc drives that I knew the difference between an IDE drive (older obsolete type) and a SATA drive (new cool type). As a result at first I ordered the wrong one (IDE) for my MacBook drive replacement, had to send it back, and get this one which is corrrect for SATA. The difference is one letter in the Macally model number; PHR-250CC versus PHRS-250CC. I am still irritated that the Amazon product description did not explain this difference for non-experts. Grrr.
Once I obtained the correct drive, it went together easily and came with all cables to use the drive as FireWire or USB 2. It's just a piece of extruded aluminum and a connector and some cables. Must cost about $2 to manufacture. It works fine. Get the right one.
Best Drive Enclosure [Posted on 2008-05-30]
This is an excellent drive enclosure/usb/firewire device. I have had similar devices but none has been as well built. This also seems to have greater throughput although I have not measured this.
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