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John-<div><br></div><div>I don't regard $69 for an empty box as particularly cheap. And, while</div><div>Firewire 400 may be, in practice, faster than USB2 (though I'd like to</div><div>see a citation that shows this), I wonder if the difference would be sig-</div><div>nificant for most of us.</div><div><br></div><div>A caution for anyone looking for an enclosure. Note that the spare </div><div>drives that many of us have lying around are ATA/IDE drives - parallel</div><div>interfaces - whereas almost all of the available new enclosures are</div><div>for serial ATA drives. Your links are all for SATA enclosures.</div><div><br></div><div>Happy holidays.</div><div><br></div><div>Jon</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 18, 2008, John Baltutis <<a href="mailto:baltwo@san.rr.com">baltwo@san.rr.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">FW 400 is 40-50% faster than USB 2. Ext FW enclosures are relatively cheap. See</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">this one for example:</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><<a href="http://www.macally.com/EN/Product/ArticleShow.asp?ArticleID=215">http://www.macally.com/EN/Product/ArticleShow.asp?ArticleID=215</a>>. Others are</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">at</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><<a href="http://www.macally.com/EN/Product/?BigClassName=Drive%20Enclosures&SmallClassName=3.5 ">http://www.macally.com/EN/Product/?BigClassName=Drive%20Enclosures&SmallClassName=3.5 </a>></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Since I don't have any USB ext HDs to experiment with, I can't tell you if a</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">USB created clone would boot a machine if put into an FW enclosure, but I doubt</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">it. Bottom-line on backups/clones: they're useless unless you boot with them</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">and test them. Waiting for your HD to fail and then finding out the</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">backup/clone won't work is worst than painful.</font></p> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>