Home > Consumer Reviews > Acomdata Tango 2.5-Inch USB 2.0 eSATA Portable Enclosure for SATA Hard Drive TNGXXXUSE-BLU (Blue)

I installed a WD250gbScorpioBlue drive into one of these nicely compacted drive storage housing. It works beautifully from the start. I do recommend this to anyone that needs a good well designed storage housing.

What I learned: just a few observations of general interest. Firstly it does not include an ESATA cable so if you don't already have one then you will need it. I find the three foot length to be useful for this unit. To have ESATA you need to plug in both cables so the usb becomes the power supply. I discovered that not all the USB will work. If I use the USB2.0 slots and ESATA port on the back of my system everything runs just wonderfully! BUT I can't do that in the front. Only the USB works in the front. On my laptop I only have USB and it is flawless and so great to have in the same briefcase as my Thinkpad. This whole thing is light and tiny a great addition for the road kit.

My older PC also had issues but I used the rear USB it worked but the front do not operate the unit. I suspect that the unit is USB2.0 standard only and any 1.5 USB ports will not work properly. For clarity I think I should point out that the USB ports on the three systems mention all work with my other equipment. It is this system that I had to find the right port first, after that the speed, silence, heat reduction are all fantastic with the Scorpio Blue 250gb drive. If you get this drive do yourself a huge favor download the support software from Western Digital it makes chores as simple as they could be.

Bought this to do some file recovery off a laptop hard drive. It was straightforward to assemble and use and it worked flawlessly! The screws are quite small and the plastic end caps are a little fragile, but I would say it's definitely a great bang for the buck! I especially like the durable aluminum body as compared to other enclosures made out of plastic. I wouldn't hesitate to buy this one again!

A great cheap alternative to buying an external hard drive if you happen to have an extra internal one around. Easy to put together, simple to format in Windows. Didn't really use the instruction manual, so I'm not sure how helpful it is, but all you really need to do is attach your drive into the case with screws, hook it up to your computer, and then maybe format the drive into NTFS to clear what's already there. I used the built-in Windows formatting tool for this. I like my new drive a lot but wasn't really aware that the cable used up two USB ports. This wasn't really a problem, but if you have a limited number ports it could be. Overall I'm very pleased.

This case is very easy to use. It's better than the ones with "leather" covers, because these ones tend to slip from the cover (I lost a 120Gb drive because of these covers). The painting doesn't scratch, and the temperature is always okay. Great deal!

Bought this to go with my WD 640gb drive and it has not disappointed. eSata works great as does the USB side. One note is that I highly recommend that you buy an extra special USB cable for this unit. So far a regular USB cable has worked fine not requiring the double end for power and data. Some drives though might need both ends to work and in that case you will need the special cable that comes packaged with the unit. Be sure to buy a spare Double USB A to mini B cable because when you need one these are very hard to find.