FW800 - SATA bridge?

[Paul Conners]

.. to make custom media enclosure.

Minimum external interface is FW800. Can have SATA & USB also.

Looking for recommendation (not pages of Google results -- those I can get
myself).

Either a product you've had good results with or a hardware distributor
you've had good experience with.

Thanks.

 

[Greg Buchner]

. to make custom media enclosure.

Minimum external interface is FW800. Can have SATA & USB also.

Looking for recommendation (not pages of Google results -- those I can get
myself).

Either a product you've had good results with or a hardware distributor
you've had good experience with.

I've been using this bridgeboard...

<http://www.datoptic.com/dual-sata-to-usb-1394a-b-with-oxuf934dsb-chipset.html>

....for over a year now. I currently have two 3TB HDs in a RAID-1
configuration hooked up to it.

It's designed to go right into a case that had the old Centronics 50-pin
SCSI connectors. Which is the type of case I used. Found one with a 1 GB
5.25" full height HD, so the power supply should be perfectly capable of
running two 3.5" HDs and the bridgeboard.

They have a similar model that supports SATA Port Multipliers so you
could easily hook up multiple drives if you had the right case.

Greg B.

 

[Erik Richard Sørensen]

. to make custom media enclosure.

Minimum external interface is FW800. Can have SATA & USB also.

Looking for recommendation (not pages of Google results -- those I can get
myself).

Either a product you've had good results with or a hardware distributor
you've had good experience with.

I myself only use enclosures from OWC - both single and dual bay from
the Mercury series, and have done this since 1998 without a single crash
or broken FW bridge. Two of them are running 24/7 as backup and have
done for years. Note, that there are enclosures for both IDE/ATA and
SATA disks.

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MEP944FW8EU2/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MEQX2KIT0GB/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MEFW936AL2/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MEP944FWKSW/

etc.etc.... Just take a look here.
http://eshop.macsales.com/search/firewire+800+enclosure

Cheers, Erik Richard

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