Firewire/USB 2.0 Aluminum Enclosure for 3.5-Inch Hard Drive

Manufacturer:	Macally
List price:	~~$89.00~~
Our price:	$43.69 that is 51% off!

Firewire/USB 2.0 Aluminum Enclosure for 3.5-Inch Hard Drive

Average rating: Stars

Great ! Good Quality and Beautiful

I bought this enclosure to use it as a back-up unit. With a 200GB hard drisk this combination it's running great with my PC and Windows XP.

The assembling was so easy just following the manual that comes with it that even a kid could have done it!. Less than 5 minutes.

I liked the aluminum enclosure. Looks nice.

Firewire/USB 2.0 Aluminum Enclosure for 3.5-Inch Hard Drive - Macally

A Reliable, High-Quality Beauty!!

I have been using this enclosure for more than a month. I bought and load it with a brand new 80GB Seagate Barracuda harddrive and now this combination has been running great as my external harddrive along side my Gateway Laptop run by Windows XP Home Edition. Mounting the harddrive into this enclosure is super easy by following the manual that comes with it that even a caveman could have done it! The firewire connection provides tremendous speed for your data transfer. I have done massive data storage and even played several computer games installed in this external harddrive of mine. Apparently, you don't have to worry about the speed here, especially with firewire connection. The enclosure, being made out of aluminum hardly gets warm even after running for days! It definitely provides excellent cooling to my 80GB harddrive in there. As a laptop user, the only thing missing is 6 -pin to 4-pin firewire cable because the cables that come with the enclosure are 6-pin to 6-pin firewire cable, and USB 2.0 cable. However, I easily purchased the desired cable from pricegrabber for only 2 bucks after rebate! So, all in all, I am extremely satisfied with this item and would definitely recommend it to anybody who has taken a peek at it, and paying less than 50 bucks for this kind of quality is no doubt a marvelous catch!!!

Macally - Firewire/USB 2.0 Aluminum Enclosure for 3.5-Inch Hard Drive

First one didn't work, Replacement no better

Bought largely due to positive reviews (and because my old external HD enclosure, while working, is slightly damaged.

With my Maxtor HD installed and the unit powered on, both the unit and power supply lights flash rythmically -- and that's as far as things go. My HD, from an old Mac desktop G4, couldn't be more standard. It works fine in other enclosures, yet can't draw enough power from this one to spin up.

Uninterested-sounding Macally tech support guy said the first unit was obviously damaged and should be replaced. Amazon quickly sent a replacement -- same problem.

Another round with Macally's World of Apathy tech support dude. He couldn't have cared less -- what energy was directed toward the problem seemed to be directed at demonstrating just how much he wasn't paying attention and didn't care. He asked twice what kind of product I was calling about, and requested the model number three times.

I'm not going for three strikes. I don't know why this unit can't power a garden-variety 40GB Maxtor drive that functions happily in every other environment it's put into -- but it can't.

Kudos to Amazon's fast, easy and cheerful return policy.

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