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Says what it does and does what it says, plain and simple. Despite some reviews claiming that inserting the drive was tough, I found it a breeze and this is the first HD/external enclosure setup I've ever assembled. Perhaps HDs are now more standard in size?

It's MUCH faster than the Maxtor external I bought a few years ago. MUCH faster. It also didn't balk at my 800GB drive; larger drives often choke cheap enclosures that can't handle such capacities, I've heard. It's been extremely reliable, and I've had it for the better part of a year now. I think reliability with these products, aside from heat dissipation, is often more a judgment on the DRIVE'S quality than the enclosure's.

I'd have given it a perfect 5 stars if it had only included an eSATA option for the price. Of course, I've been looking for that perfect trifecta of USB/firewire/eSATA, finding little of that and ridiculous prices so maybe that's asking too much. Go on, spend a few bucks more for an enclosure like this one that won't give you any grief or hidden surprises.

I have three of these enclosures, and I needed a fourth, so I ordered another one. I was disappointed to find that they reduced the case size, and it now doesn't match my first three. Perhaps a minor point, but disappointing never the less.

Function wise, it is easy to install a bare hard drive, and it works well.

I have had this for about 19 months now. Had to have the power supply replaced at 11 months. Now the power supply has died again. Out of warranty at this point. What a piece of junk.

I'd like to be able to give this a solid 5 star rating but, to me, service is as much the product as anything else that goes into it. I have four of these with 750 gig drives that I use to back up data to - transfer the files, then shut 'em off. Two of 'em are over two years old, the other two about a year old. Well... I don't know if it was a two-year old or a one year old that had it's power supply go out, but Acomdata's response to my email, requesting a replacement kind of floored me. I knew they were out of warranty, so I sent them an email asking how much a power supply would cost and this was their response: "Are you interested in buying a power supply?" I had to re-read the email I'd sent to make sure I hadn't requested a large pizza with extra cheese. Nope - I'd definitely asked them about a power supply.

I didn't pursue it. It's a bit if a pain to swap the power cable to get to that fourth drive, but it's not like I use it every day... Thought it'd be better to just leave their service people in their coma and deal with it. When they have power, they're great units!

With both options Firewire or USB 2.0 You can use all the drives that have files on them. This on was able get some files off an old maxtor and The Drive is fried but I got the files off of it useing this unit