[G4] Re: Cheap firewire drive case

[Doug Burton]

On Aug 20, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Richard M. Kriss wrote:

>
>> From: Richard Klein <rich at richardklein.org>
>> Subject: [G4] Cheap firewire drive case
>>
>> All this talk about firewire vs. USB 2.0 drive cases lately!  I 
>> noticed
>> that geeks.com is selling a dual interface drive case for $25.  I
>> thought someone here might be interested:
>> http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=AP35-C
>>
>> I actually am affiliated with them: I've got their ads on one of my 
>> web
>> pages.
>
> The geeks do offer some nice cases but I did not see any for SATA and
> firewire.  The hard case to find is a combo SATA/ATA  USB 2.0/Firewire.
>
> I happen to have a good SATA drive I would like to use in an external 
> case
> with a firewire interface.  I currently have it in a case with a USB 
> 2.o
> interface.

I would think speed is the primary reason why none is offered.  The 
only reason I can see for wanting a serial ATA drive in the first place 
is the speed of the interface.  To bottleneck it in a FW external case 
defeats the purpose, don't you think?

Just a message from Doug...