Best place to get FireWire HD enclosure for sata drives? (UK)

[msmth928]

Best one I can find is this: http://www.bibistore.co.uk/products.asp?partno=G-S350SUAB and the cheapest place seems to be: http://www.bibistore.co.uk/products.asp?partno=G-S350SUAB

Are there any cheaper ones around? Or other places that sell that enclosure?

 

[macffooky]

I was looking for the same thing a month ago and the best I could find were:

http://www.kenable.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/1299

and

http://www.microanvika.com/computing/product.asp?PNO=NAN19314 (FW400 only). Neither look like they'll absorb much heat from the drive and I don't think either have the much-vaunted Oxford chipset...as I recall the only way to get that was to import from the US.

 

[msmth928]

Just found the dynamode one cheaper: http://www.dabs.com/products/best-value-3-5--sata-hdd-caddy-usb-2-0-5JFL.html

Here's the official page: http://www.dynamode.net/details.asp?id=279

What's the Oxford chipset?

 

[macffooky]

Nice find. The Oxford Chipset(s) are the Firewire controllers generally considered to be the most reliably compatible with Macs.