Re: Firewire ext disc box?
- From: real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell)
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:42:24 +0100
Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@xxxxxx> wrote:
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@xxxxxx> wrote:
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[..]
Anyway, I'm getting a bit fed up ordering enclosure after enclosure only
to find that they're all defective. Does anyone have a suggestion on a
known-good brand for a Firewire (and USB2 preferably) single drive
enclosure for an ATA-133 HDD?
I don't know about full enclosures with FW, only USB, However...
...ISTR you have the same twin drive external box that I do. You can get
the Bridge boards seperately from Span, which I did recently and built
all my drives into an old PC tower box (made a really nice multi-drive
box it did).
Yes, but the one I've seen is SATA and this is an old parallel ATA-133
HDD I need an enclosure for.
It's just for the sake of using a spare HDD that I've got.
There are 6 on this page:
http://www.span.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=19_1302_1323
But only one in stock, and it's only got one FW port, not the two that
you really need so it's NBG. /And/ it's for 5.25" drives (although able
to take 3.5" drives).
Next on the list is 60 quid - makes no sense to spend that much if you
ask me. And it's also for 5.25" drives, no sign it can take smaller
drives, it's out of stock, and how they can justify that sort of cost
for something that's not even got FW800, I don't know.
The one after that has two FW ports, but one 4 pin and one 6 pin and who
knows if you can daisy-chain that rig? Also £40 inc VAT and not in
stock for a fortnight - which means `We'll take your money and you might
get one eventually, if you're lucky, but don't count on it any time in
the next six months' (I've been caught that way a couple of times
already - never again. Actually, the very worst have been bike shops -
round here, the bike shops are so bad that I never buy stuff from them
any more. Mostly they stock nothing at all bar Scottoil that I might
want to buy - aside from the occasional helmet, but I try them on in the
shop then buy on-line because the shops never stock the colour I want in
the size I want - white, and big. Oh, they'll promise they'll get one
in, but I've played that game before. You're expected to be grateful if
the ordered thing turns up within a fortnight. It's like that with
everything, spare parts and all. All our bike stuff gets bought on-line
these days - even my last pair of waterproof trousers, gloves, boots,
you name it).
Span has nothing in stock that'll do what I want and most of what it
promises will be in stock won't do what I want either.
It's a bit like that wherever I look.
www.span.com.
They seem to have a lot of options for FW/USB to various interfaces. I
also found them to be very helpful if you ask a question too (even
though they don't support Macs).
I can confirm both their FW800/USB2 and FW400/USB to 2xSATA Oxford
bridges work fine with my MacBook. They do a similar widget for IDE/ATA.
As far as IDE/ATA goes, I can only confirm USB2 - I have a NextGadgets
enclosure which works OK, and I bought a funny little IDE-USB splitter
bridge for a CDRW drive, which also works OK. Like you, I found the
SafeCom boxes to be absolutely rubbish.
I don't suppose it's worth seeing if you can get just the bridge board
and mount it in an enclosure you already have?
I don't have any spare enclosures or it'd be a very attractive solution,
assuming an ATA-133 to FW bridge were available - which you say is the
case.
Yes, here:
http://www.span.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=1308
I just wondered if you could mount one of these bridges into one of the
enclosures that is faulty? Just an idea like.
Which would give me an external hard disc enclosure costing a lot more
than an external HD in an enclosure - not bright. And would mean that
I'd've spent money buying new something that's faulty - and I don't do
that, if it's NBG, I get my money back.
Rowland.
P.S. Due to what I assume is some strangeness with my NNTP server, this
thread has only just turned up.
There seems to be a lot of ISPs putting NNTP servers at very low
priority now. I tried the one supplied by PlusNet for a few days, then
paid my subsciption to news.individual.net again, and use that as it
works.
I think it was just a hiccup.
Rowland.
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