[beverson]

An old 80GB WD drive is about to crap out (the one it replaced under warranty was making the same noises right before it stopped working), so I just got a good deal on a 160GB Hitachi at CompUSA today ($60 after rebates). Unfortunately, I got home and found out that my ADS Pyro FireWire enclosure doesn't support drives that large -- the Hitachi only shows up as 129 GB. My first question: does anyone have an enclosure like this and know anything about updating it? Their support page had nothing, and I'm waiting to hear back from tech support.

My other option would be to drop more money on a new enclosure (ugh). Better in the long run than using this drive below its capacity, but still annoying. Thus my second question: does anyone have an enclosure they're particularly fond of? I spent like 2 hours searching today, but I'm not sure what I should pick. The one I have now has a fan, and I seem to feel like that's a good idea for a 7200 rpm drive, but lots of these enclosures are really small and fanless. Having USB 2.0 would be a nice bonus. And I have to have two FireWire ports because as of right now I need to chain my iSight off the external drive. Any suggestions?

[Weezer]

I put a 52x cd-r I got for free into one of these:

http://www.dealsonic.com/firenfor525d.html

and have been quite happy with the performance. Oxford 911 chipset, so it should support the larger drive (I think)

[jamerican]

Originally posted by beverson:
An old 80GB WD drive is about to crap out (the one it replaced under warranty was making the same noises right before it stopped working), so I just got a good deal on a 160GB Hitachi at CompUSA today ($60 after rebates). Unfortunately, I got home and found out that my ADS Pyro FireWire enclosure doesn't support drives that large -- the Hitachi only shows up as 129 GB. My first question: does anyone have an enclosure like this and know anything about updating it? Their support page had nothing, and I'm waiting to hear back from tech support.

My other option would be to drop more money on a new enclosure (ugh). Better in the long run than using this drive below its capacity, but still annoying. Thus my second question: does anyone have an enclosure they're particularly fond of? I spent like 2 hours searching today, but I'm not sure what I should pick. The one I have now has a fan, and I seem to feel like that's a good idea for a 7200 rpm drive, but lots of these enclosures are really small and fanless. Having USB 2.0 would be a nice bonus. And I have to have two FireWire ports because as of right now I need to chain my iSight off the external drive. Any suggestions?

Check Newegg.com. They have the Coolmax enclosures which will work with your drive. I just bought a 3.5" to use with a 160gb drive - works like a charm. Hope this helps.