I recently got a 3.5″ hard drive enclosure that has both Firewire and USB 2.0 connections on it. I did not want to use the usb side of things for a perm. solution so I went ahead and got a Firewire card. One thing I can say is that it may not be hooked directly to the IDE chain but it works damn well. I am pretty much sold on Firewire. I think all external enclosures that I purchase will have both types from now on. I know, it took me long enough but it is fun in any case. I like this enclosure because if I decide to put a 250gig HD into it the unit will take it. It currently is housing a 80gig drive which is plenty for now. It is acting as my tertiary data drive. I have 4 drives hooked to my computer. I have the main SCSI 9.1gig acting as the system drive. A second 9.1gig acting as an application drive. The third which is housed in a 5.25″ removable drive rack which is a 40gig acting as my games drive. I then have the Firewire drive for graphics and other misc. stuff I want. I plan to redo a bit of it but for now this works fine. Yes, if you have not figured out by now, I ramble a lot. Later…
Dec 19