Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news-in-01.newsfeed.easynews.com!easynews!core-easynews-01!easynews.com!en-nntp-02.dc1.easynews.com.POSTED!null From: Greg Buchner Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Subject: Re: FW800 - SATA bridge? References: <0001HW.CA8BB7E3003A0E6DB04179BF@news.eternal-september.org> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Message-ID: Lines: 33 X-Complaints-To: abuse@easynews.com Organization: EasyNews, UseNet made Easy! X-Complaints-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly. Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:19:35 -0500 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc:244 comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage:35 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:1488 In article <0001HW.CA8BB7E3003A0E6DB04179BF@news.eternal-september.org>, Paul Conners wrote: > . to make custom media enclosure. > > Minimum external interface is FW800. Can have SATA & USB also. > > Looking for recommendation (not pages of Google results -- those I can get > myself). > > Either a product you've had good results with or a hardware distributor > you've had good experience with. I've been using this bridgeboard... > ...for over a year now. I currently have two 3TB HDs in a RAID-1 configuration hooked up to it. It's designed to go right into a case that had the old Centronics 50-pin SCSI connectors. Which is the type of case I used. Found one with a 1 GB 5.25" full height HD, so the power supply should be perfectly capable of running two 3.5" HDs and the bridgeboard. They have a similar model that supports SATA Port Multipliers so you could easily hook up multiple drives if you had the right case. Greg B. -- Actual e-mail address is gregbuchner and I'm located at gmail.com