Macally USB 2.0 & Firewire 800 Ext. Storage Enclosure for 3.5" HDD ( PHR-100ACB )

Average customer rating: 4.0

Good construction Easy to install the drive
Well-made drive with excellent customer support
solid product, works well
bad news...
Largish, but solid and reliable

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Macally USB 2.0 & Firewire 800 Ext. Storage Enclosure for 3.5" HDD ( PHR-100ACB )

Manufacturer: Macally
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B0000B3ALG

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Product Description

Macally's mission is to provide its customers with the highest quality and value product which exceeds their expectations and provides an effortless and pleasant interface with their PCs. Macally is achieving its mission through excellence in design, manufacturing and service.PRODUCT FEATURES: Solid aluminum body for protection and excellent heat dissipation; Shock reduction design; Supports large hard drive (>137GB); Works for both Mac and PC (no driver required except Win98); Supports USB2.0 and USB1.1, ; Supports FireWire800 and FireWire400; Dual 9-pin bilingual FireWire 800 ports for daisy chain; Hot plug and play; Active LED to indicate power and data access.

Customer Reviews:

Good construction Easy to install the drive.......2006-11-05

As a small office/home office computer consultant I often install external drives as part of a back up and recovery system. One of my clients is a professional photographer who eats up drive space quickly - each RAW digital photo is often over 6 MB. Moving these large files around using USB 2 or Firewire 400 is not fast but still takes a good deal of time. Firewire 800 is perfect. At the time of this post the number of external 800 drives was not great - I only found a few. Most of them were twice as expensive as a USB 2.0 - Firewire 400 case.

I was most impressed with the construction quality of the Macally USB 2.0 & Firewire 800. While many will not need such a high-end case it was perfect for my customer.

Well-made drive with excellent customer support.......2006-03-17

I had originally bought a Firewire 800 enclosure from another manufacturer, but it was so poorly designed that I sent it back and tried this one. The difference is night and day. This has a well-conceived design, with ample room to install the drive without crushing the cable, and some shock protection. It also looks quite good. In my experience Macally support is cordial and reliable, so I would buy their products with confidence.

Regarding one prior reviewers claim that the enclosure has a power supply that is not adequate with larger drives, this is no longer true, and was only ever true in a limited sense. Through no fault of Macally, Seagate produced drives that consumed more power than other makers, and the original power supply shipped with the enclosure was not sufficient for some Seagates. However, for at least 8 months prior to my review the larger power supply has been included with the enclosure, adequate even for the Seagate drives.

solid product, works well.......2005-06-29

This is a solid product that works well.

I tried it with three different disks that worked with no problems. I also tried it with a huge disk: although it wouldn't spin up with the standard power supply, I had a much better experience than reported by another reviewer: I sent an email to tech support at macally.com describing exactly what disk I was trying to use; they sent a more powerful power supply that arrived one week later (UPS ground shipping coast-to-coast).

Users of Windows XP with service pack 2 will wish to visit support.microsoft.com/kb/885222 to learn how to deal with the speed bug that Microsoft introduced with SP2 (firewire 400/800 runs at firewire 100 speeds until you install a patch and add a variable to the registry.)

bad news..........2005-06-14

According to Macally tech support, this enclosure requires a more-powerful external power supply to operate properly with large-capacity hard drives (300GB or more) customers are required to return the original power supply at their own expense (!!!) and wait nearly a month before receiving the replacement..

Largish, but solid and reliable.......2004-12-22

I own two of these, one for my Macs (Seagate 200GB) and one for my PCs (WD 250GB). Having owned many other enclosures, I can easily say that these are the best I have used, absolutely no problems and great performance after months of continuous usage. They are not petite, but the tradeoff is there is plenty of room inside. Installing a HD is as easy as screwing four shock-absorbing mounts to the drive and sliding it into the case, no struggles. They are solidly built, I take them with me on photo shoots and do not worry. The end-caps are plastic but they are cosmetic. FW800 is fast enough for 150+MB Photoshop files. If I could make one change, I would integrate the power-brick into the case so there is one less thing to carry and one less cable, but that is minor and all other cases use external bricks. Highly recommended.

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