Rumor has it that Steve Thatcher may have mentioned
these words:
looks good except for the $12.95 shipping
charges...
They do that to avoid a huge hit from ePay's charges...
All in all, about $22. USD, not a bad deal as the last ones our store
ordered were nearly $40. USD, and didn't have the SATA dongle.
Not a bad price whatsoever.
The link was also the first example I found, I think there are people
selling for more and less on eBay.
I've used 'em, and they're pretty handy
overall. I prefer firewire, but
I've not seen such a widely adapted dongle that can be used on firewire;
tho anything "permanent" external that I build for that purpose is FW, as
it goes one heckuva lot faster....
... and don't start quoting numbers without doing the benchmarks...
;-)
Laterz,
"Merch"
You won't have me trying to say USB 2.0 is better than even FW400 :^) My
external storage is all Firewire or SCSI. Though I desperatly need to buy a
new 2-Drive FW enclosure as the last gave up the ghost the last time I
powered it on.
These USB widgets look great, as they'll let me do what I've been doing with
a single drive IDE-Firewire enclosure. It would be nice if they were
Firewire instead of USB 2.0, but for what I want, at the price, they tend to
be a better solution. I'm just looking at them as a way to backup data. As
a Firewire inclosure and removable drive trays is going to cost the
equivalent of 2-3 250GB drives...
I also see that SATA-Firewire enclosures are available, I'll probably pick
one of those up one of these days, as going forward, SATA looks to be the
better choice. Sadly I don't seem to find any of the SATA-Firewire boards
themselves as they'd be the way to go. Though I have found SATA-IDE boards.
Zane