Acomdata Tango 2.5″ USB/FireWire400 SATA Drive Enclosure Kit – Black (TNGXXXUFAE-BLK)
Acomdata Tango 2.5″ USB/FireWire400 SATA Drive Enclosure Kit – Black (TNGXXXUFAE-BLK)
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- Acomdata TNGXXXUFAE-BLK Tango Portable 2.5″ Enclosure USB 2.0 & Firewire 400 – Black Enclosure
- Hard drive enclosure takes a SATA hard disk Hi-speed USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 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 Contents of box Acomdata Tango portable drive enclosure USB cable Firewire cable Installation guide
Acomdata TNGXXXUFAE-BLK Tango Portable 2.5-Inches Enclosure USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 With Enclosure (Black)
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about 10 months ago
High quality, perfect for my macbook drive swap,
It does what it says. Put a 2.5″ sata drive in it and you’ve got a portable drive accessible via either Firewire 400 or USB2. Comes with a two-port USB cable and a six-pin firewire cable. The USB cable has two plugs on it, presumably to pick up the power from two ports if you need to.
For firewire, no extra power supply is needed, provided you use a 6-pin firewire cable like the one included.
I’m using a Hitachi 200gb 7200rpm drive, no problems. This drive originally came in my Macbook Pro, which I upgraded to a larger drive.
The Tango case functions perfectly as a bootable firewire drive with my original OSX partition in it. FWIW, I used SuperDuper to copy the data off the external case and onto the new internal drive. It took a little over two hours to copy 170GB from the enclosure to the internal drive.
The build quality is good. The case is aluminum, and the end caps are plastic. Inside a full-length PCB slides out to attach the drive to. This is not a cheap PCB that sticks on the end of a drive, only to loosen later. The drive attaches firmly to the connector and then two screws hold it to the PCB. The end of the case is vented and has a blue/purple activity LED. The case definitely sheds heat.
I’m extremely pleased with this thing. I’m glad I thought to look for firewire, because it wasn’t coming up among the best-selling USB-only enclosures. This is the best of both worlds for a very reasonable price.
EDIT: Also, check out the Firewire 800 version of this baby if you want a little more speed. I just ordered one, so can’t comment on it yet, but the FW800 should be nice for working on video.
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|about 10 months ago
In terms of percentage, I give this drive a 96%,
Why such a percentage? Well, simply because it’s very hard to come out with the perfect product.
This enclosure is SLEEK! You will not find an enclosure like this that will do what the others can, and still be in such a sleek body, unless you can fork out the extra cash. Is it worth buying the more expensive ones? Not unless you must have FLAWLESS performance, in which case you wouldn’t be going for aesthetics either
This enclosure is self-powered, but it does provide a power port. I haven’t used it though, as my drive only requires 500mA MAX (WD Scorpio Blue 500GB) and FireWire provides 1.5A…plenty.
You might run into USB power issues on some computers because not all USB ports are made alike. In fact, most of the USB issues out there are probably because of underpowered USB ports. Too bad manufacturers don’t tell you that and you’re left with a lot of frustration
They include a double-plug USB connector, but I’ve found it useless since my drive’s low power requirement. It might be different for others because most laptop drives require 1.0A of initial startup power, and without it, the drive may not register. In that instance, the double-plug connector would be useful. Easiest solution: Get a Powered USB Hub.
I’ve had RARE occurrences where the drive would stop in the middle of a transfer. I dunno what causes this, but whenever I use uTorrent, it gives me the “100% overloaded” error, which probably means that the drive got overloaded in some way and there may be some built-in protection for either the drive itself or the enclosure. But I haven’t had it for a long time, so it no longer bothers me.
The first enclosure I bought didn’t have a functioning USB port. The drive would spin, but it would show both blue and red LEDs on at the same time. The drive was spinning up, but would not register on my comp. The second one I bought fixed that. So if you’re having issues, you might have a bad enclosure.
Oh yeah, for those of you looking for the Oxford chipset, mine did not come with one. It came with a Satalink chipset instead. So yeah, watch out for that.
And contrary to what some people say about how secure the drive is to the chassis, it’s Very Secure! First, the drive is pushed into the interface connectors, which Don’t Move! The circuit board itself is as long as the drive + length of interface connectors. So the drive rests on a blank board…all the circuit lines below the interface connectors and a few lines going towards the front for LEDs. So the drive won’t scratch/cause short in any way. The drive is also Directly secured to the board with 2 screws from the circuit board to the metal holes on the drive. So the drive is SECURELY mounted to the board. Finally, the board + drive slides into 2 rails within the outside metal enclosure and 2 screws secure it on the outside. So the drive is SECURE!
Well, hope that my review has helped ppl in making their decision. My opinion: You won’t find a decently-priced FireWire + USB drive that is so sleek like this. Keywords: Decently Priced + Sleek! I currently use the enclosure all the time and it’s a better option for me who has a laptop and don’t have to deal with finding an outlet to power my external drive + it fits anywhere
Used on: Macbook Pro Santa Rosa (Windows 7 & OSX Snow Leopard), Phenom II X4 Desktop + Other Desktops (Windows 7 & Vista), many laptops (some with underpowered USB ports…had to use Powered Hub) (Windows 7, Vista, & XP)
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|about 10 months ago
Don’t be fooled by cheap imitators…,
1. I’m not a cpu guru, but I’ve used enough enclosures over the years to realize what’s good vs… lame. I typically use the OWC (Other World Computing) hard drive enclosures (definitely check out their site), but recently needed an enclosure in a timely manner and thus purchased this unit via amazon prime. It looks nice, is much lighter than the OWC model and sleeker… which also translates into being more flimsy and of a cheaper build quality… and getting the ext HD in / out is a tad bit more challenging (still easy however). Bottomline, with my experience, the unit simply didn’t mount on my cpu consistently. Now it’s one of those things that perhaps I got a lemon… but in the end, the unit I purchased, simply didn’t work consistently and via my impressions of the relatively flimsy build quality, I can see how this is so.
2. Thus, if you’re going to spend this amount of money on a pretty lame enclosure, do yourself a favor and spend a bit more and get an enclosure that it rock solid and one that will work for many many years to come (ie the OWC enclosures). You won’t regret it.
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