[MLUG - DISCUSSION] firewire drive enclosure kits?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Thanks to iTunes and iPhoto, (and the gotcha of no free internal
drive bays in an iMac and iBook, I have to admit) we're rapidly
running out of diskspace in our household, so I was looking into
getting an external firewire harddrive.  Best prices on those I
could find on those mailorder that didn't come from "Fred's
Hardware" were like $200 for an 80 Gig drive.  (Fred serves his up
for $130, but it's a sucky drive and I don't know him.)

On the other hand, you can get an ADS pyro 1394 drive kit (an
enclosure with the firewire interface) for about $100, and then buy
whatever drive you really want (and not just a hard drive; you could
stick a dvd-ram drive in these things).  Or you could get other more
generic enclosures for a bit cheaper.  Or you could get a
firewire/USB 2.0 combination enclosure for a bit more.

Anybody have any experience or advice on any of these things? 

jking


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