Like the title says, I mean the one pictured in your review of Acronis True Image 6:

http://www.siliconpopculture.com/reviews_comments/32_0_2_0_C13/

It is a real stunner! Where and $?

Many thanks!

i think this is what you are talking about.. 

Actually, I have this one: http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=4538&Item=OWCMOTGPRO

It looks to be the same as the one shown above. It has Firewire (6 and 4 pin) and USB (2.0 and 1.1 compatible) ports. It’s very handy to have and works like a charm.

I already have an external 2.5” portable HD enclosure, but this one takes the cake… Must get, must get…

:oops: Me above

I only paid ~ $40 for my housing new from a store clear out.

When buying these things…and if you’re going to use the Firewire port then you need to make sure it has an Oxford 911 (or higher) chipset in it. The reason why is that it’s one of few chipsets that can sustain high throughput. Most cheap firewire enabled enclosures use generic chipsets that crap out during long transfers and cannot sustain high transfer rates. So, if you’re trying to capture DV to a non-Oxford 911 device then it will likely drop frames. Of course, if you use USB2 as the interface, you don’t have to worry about this…although you may if your CPU is overloaded. USB uses the CPU to handle transfers so if your CPU is busy doing stuff then it can affect transfer performance.

Not sure about the Chip but as an example:

Doing an HDD image backup of a 20GB partition was nearly identical time for USB2 & the Firewire interface & watching a DVD movie ripped to the drive is as smooth as from internal drive or DVD drive.

The cost of the housing alone is normally $113 so I would assume they use the best quality chipset. Only bought this because it was only dual USB/Firewire one on ebay at the time and managed to win it for ~$40.

is there any decent cases for 3.5” disks?
i find it hard to find 2.5” disks of a size like 120gigs

i thought the max for 2.5” HD’s are 80gb right now..