Esata to Firewire 800 adaptor?

[fab5freddy]

Is it possible to make an adaptor to connect
an Esata Cable to a Firewire 800 Connector ?

i would like to connect my Esata Harddrive to a Firewire 800 port....

thanks for any advice!

 

[bizzle]

Nope.

 

[fab5freddy]

why not ?

 

[cw2k7]

http://firmtek.stores.yahoo.net/spyderhub.html

Or use a cheap firewire 800 sata enclosure. I do this and run it without it's case whenever I need to quickly swap drives around.

 

[fab5freddy]

thanks! but do they make a Cable from Firewire 800 to Esata ?

 

[yippy]

No, they are completely different interfaces and not compatable.

To make the connection you need a bridging chipset like in a FW800 external enclosure. I am unaware of any ESATA->FW conversions as it is cheaper/easier/more elegant to buy a FW800 enclosure an pull the drive from your existing enclosure and put it in there.

 

[Mactool]

Yes we can!

you might like to look here for the solution.

http://firmtek.stores.yahoo.net/spyderhub.html

 

[Fry-man22]

you might like to look here for the solution.

http://firmtek.stores.yahoo.net/spyderhub.html

Thanks for the link to that. A little pricey but very cool...

 

[Sieve]

Firewire to eSata solution

You have success with this item?

you might like to look here for the solution.

http://firmtek.stores.yahoo.net/spyderhub.html

 

[thewebgal]

Looks like eSATA is much faster than Firewire800 anyway.

How about using an eSATA PCI card in your macPro?
The one from OWC gives you 2 eSATA ports on the back,
and with an eSATA cable and an external drive case to power the drive,
can't you just connect the data cable directly between the drive and the PCI card?

 

[Patth9]

eSATA to USB 3.0 Adapter

I know the original post is quite old, but perhaps this might help someone like me who needs to export a million data files from my G5 estata external HD to my Mac Mini 2012 late.


eSATA to USB 3.0 Adapter

or

eSATA to USB 3.0 Adapter for SuperSpeed data transfer!

Electronics are like the weather, don't have what you want, wait 5 minutes and check again?

The top item didn't get good reviews from PC folks, but it got good reviews from Mac folks.

If anyone knows differently, please, by all means share.

Patt