SATA Hard Drive enclosure with Firewire and Cooling fan

Hello all,

Can anyone recommend a SATA Hard Drive enclosure with Firewire and
Cooling fan?
Is there a particular brand or model you have had good success with?
Thanks in advance.

Ronnie

shooter wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a SATA Hard Drive enclosure with Firewire and
> Cooling fan?

I'm using a MacPower IceCube Pleiades "SuperCombo" enclosure. I bought
two of them recently and haven't had much experience with them yet, but
the initial impression is reasonably positive.

My only niggles are the external power supply (and it gets reasonably
warm even with no drive plugged in, so probably not very efficient) and
the fact that the case sits on it side, so there is greater risk of the
drive being bumped and falling over.

The case is aluminium. It doesn't have a fan - the metal case radiates
the heat from the drive.

Internal mechanical arrangement is reasonably good. It has a couple of
layers of screws to get through, with a sliding outer case and an
internal metal cover.

My variant of the case has USB 2.0 (mini connector), Firewire 400,
Firewire 800 (two sockets) and eSATA. It includes cables for everything,
and also has an adapter kit to let you power and connect the drive from
a slotted computer with a spare internal SATA port and classic internal
hard drive power connector (four pin white molex thing).

I think there are cheaper models which omit some of the connectors, but
my local suppliers don't stock them. They also do older IceCube models
with parallel ATA.

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