CoolGear Enclosure?

[durija]

I have a Seagate SATA 500GB drive that I want to put in an enclosure that I can hook up to my iMac with FW800 (1394b). This OWC has good reviews on the forums:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MEFW924AL1K/

but I am also interested in this model from CoolGear:

http://www.coolgear.com/productdetails1.cfm?sku=SATA-PRO-35AXC&cats=&catid=497,498,742

Anybody have any comments, especially regarding the CoolGear?

 

[hodgjy]

OWC are tried, trusted, and true with many great reviews. I like mine a lot. However, the Coolgear uses the same Oxford 924 chipset, so I think you're ok with either. It's been my experience that the chipset makes a huge difference. I've had problems in the past mounting disks consistently when the enclosures were not Oxford chipsets.

 

[durija]

It seems like the only way to do this (SATA in the enclosure connected via Firewire 800 to the iMac) is with the 924 chipset. And there are not a lot of options. Most are a bit pricey. I can't tell from the specs if any less expensive models that DO NOT have an SATA port to the outside world will accept and SATA drive on the inside. I do not need that, since my iMac won't connect that way anyway. So I think the $99 model may be the least I can get away with. Anybody think otherwise?