You know those IDE to Firewire chips, on the External Enclosures?

[5489]

the IDE to Firewire adapter in the external enclosure.
Is there any way to buy this seperatley? I want to make my own external enclosure.

 

[5489]

anyone?

 

[Rallispec]

probably not.. becuaes i think its more than just a simple adapter inside.. i'm pretty sure it involves a lot of complex circuitry and stuff.

what you may be able to do if you want your own case for it is buy the whole thing, pop off the plastic case it comes with and put it in the custom encloser you build

 

[5489]

well i wanted to know because, i didnt really want to spend that much on an external enclosure.

But what about this? I ran a search on google. and found this



this

 

[bastula]

Yes you can. I know that Granite Digital has them, but they are $100. I saw a cheap 2 drive combo enclosure at compgeeks the other day for a lot less than that. You might want to check that out.

 

[5489]

anyone know where i can get these for cheap?

 

[5489]

bump

 

[Mday]

i've seen an ide to usb adapter, without the enclosure, but it cost $50.

click me

But it's usb 1.1, which is slow, and not firewire ;-)

 

[dude8604]

http://www.deltrontech.com/Firewire/1394IDE/1394IDE.htm

http://www.caloptic.com/fwint.html

 

[5489]

is caloptic.com a reliable place to buy from?

 

[Magicthyse]

Why not try datafab? www.datafab.com.

I've got a number of datafab drives. I've recased a couple and I've even built a battery pack for one.

 

[dude8604]

http://resellerratings.com/seller396.html

It doesn't seem like they're very good.