Acomdata Tango 2.5-inch Combo USB 2.0 Firewire 400 (IEEE 1394a) Portable Enclosure for SATA Hard Drive TNGXXXUFAE-BLK (Black)

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Features - Acomdata TNGXXXUFAE-BLK Tango Portable 2.5" Enclosure USB 2.0 & Firewire 400 - Black Enclosure - Hard drive enclosure takes a SATA hard disk Hi-speed USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 48-bit logical block addressing Silent operation Hot Pluggable - Mac and PC compatible Easy installation and setup - Three-year limited warranty Free tech support forever Contents of box Acomdata Tango portable drive enclosure Product Description Acomdata TNGXXXUFAE-BLK Tango Portable 2.5-Inches Enclosure USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 With Enclosure (Black) Customer Reviews High quality, perfect for my macbook drive swap Date: 2009-07-22 | Rating: 5 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. Good price, great design and Double Firewire ports! Date: 2009-04-29 | Rating: 5 It's probably one of cheapest firewire/usb2 drive enclosures that you can find. My other choice would have been the OWC Mercury on the go but it is way too expensive to get it USB2/FIREWIRE. I like the fact that it has TWO firewire ports, which means you can daisy-chain another firewire drive. Kind of unusual for an enclosure. Minor issue is the led light when it is on. When the drive is in writing or reading mode, the light changes to a light violet color. The violet color is somewhat close to the blue color when it is in standby mode. I really like the design. It is sleek with a matte-finish. One of better designs out there for an enclosure. I have a sabrent one and it is not as good design-wise. One more thing. Not sure if it is an issue. The USB port is the "mini pin" version, similar to the connection for most point-and-shoot digital cameras. Can any techie confirm if such port has a slower transfer speed than the standard USB port? Overall, I love this enclosure. Comes with both usb and firewire cables. Outer retail packaging is also well design. And this item is made in the good of US of A! I wish it has a silver color version to match to my mac mini. Dance the Tango and Love it! Date: 2009-06-18 | Rating: 5 The Black Tango Enclosure is simply perfect for my needs. I removed a 120GB drive from my MacBook Pro because I needed more space. This enclosure was all I needed to keep the 120 as a backup, bootable drive. Plug it in and it works. Unfortunately, I cannot get too techno-specific regarding transfer rates, latency, and such. However, it delivers awesome performance and the price is unbeatable. Everything you need is included. Finally, it is cute and you can dance with it (if you have an abundance of free time). Cheers... Fantastic enlosure, great price complete with Oxford Chipset Date: 2009-09-06 | Rating: 5 I was informed by Acomdata that this enclosure comes with an Oxford chipset assembled making this enclosure the best on the market for the price. Installing my hard drive was simple and the case works like a charm. It mounted on my Apple laptop first shot, no external power supply needed. It is sleek and aesthetically pleasing. I would choose this enclosure again over others. The excellent customer support Acomdata offers is an added bonus! Plug and Play Perfect Date: 2009-07-14 | Rating: 5 Within one minute of popping my dead laptop's hard drive into the enclosure, I had already begun transferring data to my new computer. The tethering ability is great and the device is slim and pleasing to look at. For the price, it is a great value for recovering data that may have otherwise been lost.