Review on 💽 Acomdata Tango Pro 2.5-Inch Hard Drive Enclosure (Black) - USB 2.0/Firewire 400/Firewire 800 - TNGXXXUFBE-BLK by Justin Rasmussen

I would like to recommend this product, but unfortunately I can't. The problem is that it just doesn't handle the full powerband that the specs call for. The first version of this device I received refused to run my drive (an SSD that was drawing around 6W of power) through FW. I sent it back and was told the FW ports were bad. The replacement has FW ports that work --- but do not YET support the full 7W that the FW provides. The situation on the USB side isn't much better - a low-power drive meant to run on a single USB connection needs two USB connections to get it working. All of this may sound like technical nonsense to you, dear reader, but it's important. When you buy a drive and put it in an enclosure like this, you just expect everything to work - you plug it into your computer and life is great. You don't expect things to work until you write a lot of data to the drive. At this point your computer will disconnect as the drive does not have the required performance and will restart. You would expect standard 2.5" drives to only work on a single USB or FW connection unless you buy a really weird drive. their pages for an explanation of how to use the supplied cables to 'complete' the FW connection with additional USB power delivery. Aside from the fact that WTF asks me to do this, none of their suggestions have ever worked for me. My recommendation is to skip it. Life's too short to bother with products that don't properly support standards (power standards in this case) that appear to work and then seemingly randomly stop working.