Acomdata Tango 2.5" USB/FireWire400 SATA Drive Enclosure Kit - Black (TNGXXXUFAE-BLK) Review

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(More customer reviews)It does what it says. Put a 2.5" sata drive in it and you've got a portable drive accessible via either Firewire 400 or USB2. Comes with a two-port USB cable and a six-pin firewire cable. The USB cable has two plugs on it, presumably to pick up the power from two ports if you need to.

For firewire, no extra power supply is needed, provided you use a 6-pin firewire cable like the one included.

I'm using a Hitachi 200gb 7200rpm drive, no problems. This drive originally came in my Macbook Pro, which I upgraded to a larger drive.

The Tango case functions perfectly as a bootable firewire drive with my original OSX partition in it. FWIW, I used SuperDuper to copy the data off the external case and onto the new internal drive. It took a little over two hours to copy 170GB from the enclosure to the internal drive.

The build quality is good. The case is aluminum, and the end caps are plastic. Inside a full-length PCB slides out to attach the drive to. This is not a cheap PCB that sticks on the end of a drive, only to loosen later. The drive attaches firmly to the connector and then two screws hold it to the PCB. The end of the case is vented and has a blue/purple activity LED. The case definitely sheds heat.

I'm extremely pleased with this thing. I'm glad I thought to look for firewire, because it wasn't coming up among the best-selling USB-only enclosures. This is the best of both worlds for a very reasonable price.

EDIT: Also, check out the Firewire 800 version of this baby if you want a little more speed. I just ordered one, so can't comment on it yet, but the FW800 should be nice for working on video.

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Acomdata TNGXXXUFAE-BLK Tango Portable 2.5-Inches Enclosure USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 With Enclosure (Black)

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