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Firewire Cases withh Internal Power
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Join Date: Aug 1999
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Anyone know of any Firewire 800 / USB 2.0 combo cases with Internal power supply? Those external brick power supplys take up far to much space in the laptop bag.
Prefer Aluminum case if poss.
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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I know Macmall had a few burners that were bus powered, but they were like $350-$400. I think you are looking for the same thing I am, a enclosher that is bus powered so we can use our own drives, right? 
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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I, too, have been dismayed by the lack of external drives with built-in power supplies -- I despise power bricks.
I've seen the Macpower cases, but where do you buy them?
tooki
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally posted by tooki:
I, too, have been dismayed by the lack of external drives with built-in power supplies -- I despise power bricks.
I've seen the Macpower cases, but where do you buy them?
tooki
I had a MacAlly case with a built-in power supply for a while. The down side to that arrangement is the fan can be pretty noisy. I'd rather have a power brick and quiet drive.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Ok, it's not quite what you are looking for but I thought I'd pass along this tip for those with external 2.5" firewire drives who use them with both PC and Mac laptops.
Obviously Apple powerbooks have bus-powered firewire, so no adapter is needed, but what to do when you also use it with a PC laptop that doesn't have bus-powered firewire, or via a firewire pc card?
An ipod charger plugged directly into the 2nd firewire port of the firewire drive will inject power into the firewire chain and power the drive fine... and it saves carrying another power supply along...
(At least this works with my firewire drive and an ipod charger for the original 20GB ipod...)
Rgds,
Ben
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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Originally posted by tooki:
I've seen the Macpower cases, but where do you buy them?
tooki
it is odd that nowhere (that i could see) on their site do they mention anything about where you can buy their stuff. i suppose you could use their enquiry page but it seems like something you shouldn't have to ask! they are advertising for an overseas sales rep though....
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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Originally posted by bencurtis:
Ok, it's not quite what you are looking for but I thought I'd pass along this tip for those with external 2.5" firewire drives who use them with both PC and Mac laptops.
Obviously Apple powerbooks have bus-powered firewire, so no adapter is needed, but what to do when you also use it with a PC laptop that doesn't have bus-powered firewire, or via a firewire pc card?
In the firewire standard the firewire port would provide port, as long as it is a 6-pin firewire port (4-pin port does not provide power). If you have a 4-pin firewire port in your PC laptop, and you have a 6-pin bus-powered firewire hard disk, then you can go for one of these.
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