Does a 2.5" SATA enclosure with Firewire connections exist?
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October 30th, 2007
I’m replacing the drive in my MacBook and would like to reuse the old one as an external drive. However, I would prefer to have a firewire connection, but all I can find is USB only or USB and eSATA.
I’ve looked everywhere, but I can’t find one. Ideally, it would be less than $50, but at this point I’m just trying to find one.
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Thanks for the link. I was hoping to find something a little cheaper, but I guess there aren’t many choices out there.
Feel free to keep looking if anyone feels inclined.
Low-budget auto-play geek videos on that link, beware.
I am sure the prices will come down as SATA drives become the norm, but by then it will be cheaper to just buy a larger capacity external 2.5 most likely. In fact, check these out at Tiger Direct – almost the same price as those enclosures, with much higher capacities I am sure.
not for $50…but a really good triple interface enclosure that runs off of fw bus (400 & 800):
Rocstor 8cx (enclosure only sold by resellers):
http://www.rocstor.com
A lot of colleagues I know use this one for small video editing on-the-go and audio.
If the Rocstor cases are SATA, here’s the enclosure for $35:
http://www.compsource.com/pn/B202XX01/Rocstor_972
No indication on the main Roctor site about what sort of interface they use in any of their drives, kinda odd. I have an email in to the sales dept., we’ll see what happens.
I am interested in this myself since upgrading my MacBook internal, have the original 60GB drive just laying around, I am sure I can find some geek use for it. But I am with you, the price needs to be under $50 bucks for the enclosure.
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