Firewire drive enclosure

[LordeOurMother]

I need to find a firewire 800 enclosure for my hard drives. They're hard to find these days. Any recommendations?

 

[Stephen.R]

A new or used one? I’m sure there’s used ones on eBay/similar; mechanical drive fails, most people will just buy a new drive.

I think akitio still make one? What Mac are you using, there may be an easier option than fw800 given its scarcity.

 

[Stephen.R]

This is the one I was thinking of: https://www.akitio.com/desktop-storage/taurus-super-s3-lcm

 

[LordeOurMother]

A new or used one? I’m sure there’s used ones on eBay/similar; mechanical drive fails, most people will just buy a new drive.

I think akitio still make one? What Mac are you using, there may be an easier option than fw800 given its scarcity.

Akitio is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks SO much!

 

[wardie]

Where are you based? I’m in UK and I think I have a couple of the old OWC Mercury Elite Pro’s somewhere that were multi-interface like USB2 / FW800 / eSATA gathering dust I don’t mind offloading for v reasonable £... (use USB3 stuff these days...). PM me if you’re interested I’ll see if I can find them. May not be worth international shipping though.

 

[LordeOurMother]

Where are you based? I’m in UK and I think I have a couple of the old OWC Mercury Elite Pro’s somewhere that were multi-interface like USB2 / FW800 / eSATA gathering dust I don’t mind offloading for v reasonable £... (use USB3 stuff these days...). PM me if you’re interested I’ll see if I can find them. May not be worth international shipping though.

I'm both US and UK based.

 

[Fishrrman]

As much as I liked it, firewire is now a "technology fading off into the sunset".

I'd suggest you get USB3 enclosures instead.
They'll be just as fast, and are backward-compatible with USB2 as well.

If any of your drives are 2.5", this might be a good enclosure:

SABRENT 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool Free External Hard Drive Enclosure [Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III] Black (EC-UASP)

SABRENT 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool Free External Hard Drive Enclosure [Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III] Black (EC-UASP)

tinyurl.com

 

[Stephen.R]

They'll be just as fast

Unless you happen to be using them with a Mac that has fw800 but not usb3.. in which case they’ll be woefully slow.

edit: not to mention usb3 can’t be daisy chained.

 

[LordeOurMother]

As much as I liked it, firewire is now a "technology fading off into the sunset".

I'd suggest you get USB3 enclosures instead.
They'll be just as fast, and are backward-compatible with USB2 as well.

If any of your drives are 2.5", this might be a good enclosure:

SABRENT 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool Free External Hard Drive Enclosure [Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III] Black (EC-UASP)

SABRENT 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool Free External Hard Drive Enclosure [Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III] Black (EC-UASP)

tinyurl.com

Lol I have plenty of USB 3 enclosures, I need a firewire one for a specific use case. But thanks.