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Acomdata Tango Pro 2.5-inch USB 2.0 Firewire 400 and 800 Portable Enclosure for SATA Hard Drive TNGXXXUFBE-BLK (Black)

Brand: Acomdata Model: TNGXXXUFBE-BLK Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 3.19" h x .63" w x 5.31" l, .60 pounds Acomdata Tango Pro 2.5-inch USB 2.0 Firewire 400 & 800 Portable Enclosure for SATA Hard Drive TNGXXXUFBE-BLK Black Hard drive enclosure takes a SATA hard disk Hi-speed USB 2.0 FireWire Wire 800 48-bit logical block addressing Silent operation Hot Pluggable Mac and PC compatible Easy installation and setup Three-year limited warranty Free tech support forever Box Contents Tango Pro Portable Drive Enclosure USB Cable FireWire Cable FireWire 800 Cable Installation guide

Most helpful customer reviews 21 of 21 people found the following review helpful. Very bad power handling By Maynard Handley I'd like to recommend this product, but unfortunately I cannot. The problem is that it simply does not handle the full power range required by the specs. The first version of this device I got refused to run my drive (a solid state drive using about 6W of power) via FW. I sent it back and was told its FW ports were bad. The replacement has FW ports that work --- but that STILL don't support the full 7W that FW supplies. The situation on the USB side isn't much better --- a low-power drive that should run off a single USB connection requires two USB connection to get it spinning. All this may seem like so much technical mumbo-jumbo to you, the reader, but it matters. When you buy a drive and insert it into an enclosure like this, you just expect things to work --- you plug it into your computer and life is good. You don't expect that things will sorta appear to work until you write a lot of data to the disk, at which point it disconnects from your computer because the drive doesn't have the power it needs and has reset itself. You expect that, unless you are buying some really weird drive, standard 2.5 inch drives will just work off a single USB or FW connection. AcomData seem well aware of the power limitations of this drive --- the manual that comes with it devotes most of its pages to explaining how to use the cables they gave to "top up" the FW connection with extra power from USB. Apart from the fact of WTF should I be doing this, none of their suggestions ever worked for me. My recommendation -- skip this. Life is too short to dick around with products that don't properly support standards (in this case, power standards) and that appear to work and then stop work apparently randomly. 21 of 22 people found the following review helpful. Nice build quality 2.5-inch disk enclosure By Abester I have the Acomdata Tango Pro 2.5-inch SATA disk enclosure with USB 2.0, Firewire 400 and 800 I/O ports on the back. It also has a small 5v DC power jack just in case your I/O port DC power is marginal or weak. I needed the various I/O ports as I have a number of different PC's and Macs where I plan to use this enclosure. I tested the Acomdata and my disk on all of them and none required that I supply 5v DC to the enclosure. The enclosure does not ship with a 5v DC wall wart adapter but you'll probably never need it anyway. Mine shipped with 1-meter (3-feet) long FW400, FW800, and an incorrect USB 2.0 cable. The Acomdata supplied USB cable came with a rather large type-B connector typically used to attach to a printer. The enclosure needs a Mini-USB style connector. No big deal as I happened to have the correct cable from another project. I'm using the enclosure to house my 128GB 2.5-inch OCZ brand SATA Solid-State Disk. Installation was a snap but I highly recommend having a very small philips screw driver handy as the back panel screws on the enclosure are pretty small. You unscrew the two back panel screws then push on the I/O port connectors which slides the entire assembly out from the front of the case. Slide your 2.5-inch SATA disk onto the SATA connector and secure the disk from the bottom four mounting holes using the Acomdata supplied screws. Slide the assembly back into the case and secure it from the back panel using the two tiny philips screws. Fit and finish are very good on this enclosure and the back panel tolerances are a bit tight but if you align everything just right, it will go back together perfectly. I tested my enclosure with the OCZ 2.5-Inch SSD on three PC's and three Macs using USB 2.0, FW400, and FW800. It worked perfectly on all the computers including a 5 year old HP tower PC via USB 2.0 and FW400, 2 year old Dell tower PC via USB 2.0, and a 2 year old Lenovo laptop via USB 2.0. FW400 and FW800 worked on my two year old Intel MacBook Pro 15-Inch. FW400 worked on my Intel MacMini and