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

I have an Acomdata Tango Pro 2.5" SATA drive enclosure with USB 2.0, Firewire 400 and 800 I/O ports on the Back. It also has a small 5V DC power jack just in case the DC power supply to your I/O port is negligible or weak. I needed different I/O ports as I have several different PCs and Macs that I want to use this case on. I tested Acomdata and my drive on all of them and none of them required 5V DC for the case. The case doesn't come with a 5V DC wall adapter, but you'll probably never need one. Mine comes with FW400, FW800 1 meter (3 feet) long and the wrong USB 2.0 cable. The USB cable provided by Acomdata had a fairly large Type B connector, which is typically used to connect to a printer. The case requires a mini USB port. Not a big deal since I ended up with the correct cable from another project. I am using an enclosure to house my OCZ brand 2.5" SATA 128GB SSD. Installation was quick, but I highly recommend having a very small Phillips screwdriver handy as the screws on the back of the case are quite small. You loosen two screws on the back and then press on the I/O port connectors, which forces the entire assembly out of the front of the case. Insert a 2.5" SATA drive into the SATA connector and attach the drive to the bottom four mounting holes using the screws provided by Acomdata. Slide the assembly back into the case and secure it to the back panel with two small Phillips screws. The fit and finish of this case is very good and the back panel tolerances are a little tight, but if you line everything up correctly it will assemble perfectly. I tested my case with a 2.5" OCZ SSD on three PCs and three Macs. with USB 2.0, FW400 and FW800. It worked great on all computers including HP 5 year old Tower PC via USB 2.0 and FW400, 2 year old Dell Tower PC via USB 2.0 and 2 year old Lenovo laptop via USB 2.0. The FW400 and FW800 worked on my 2 year old Intel MacBook Pro 15 inch. The FW400 ran on my Intel MacMini and the FW800 ran on a year old Intel iMac. I am very pleased that all interfaces work perfectly with this case. The case gets a little warm with the OCZ SSD inside, but not hot, and the blue LED on the front is bright but not annoying (at least for me). MacBook Pro. I used an OCZ SSD that was partitioned with Mac Disk Utility and named "SSD". This was a simple test using Mac OS X's built-in command line utilities from a terminal window: cd /Volumes/SSDtime mkfile 1g TEST <Enter> This is the time to create a 1GB file called TEST and the timed result return after completion. USB 2.0 took 45 seconds. The FW800 took 19 seconds. The FW800 is obviously much faster than USB 2.0, but I'm sure the FW800 is still a bottleneck compared to what an SSD is really capable of. In comparison, my 7200 RPM LaCie drive performed about the same as an SSD through the FW800. eSATA would be faster, but since I don't have eSATA interfaces on any of my computers, or in this particular case, I haven't tested this I/O technology. In any case, the case is well made, versatile and does what it's supposed to. should go without problems. 5 Stars! PS: The FW800 interface model is still quite expensive at the time of writing, so if you can get by with USB 2.0 or the FW400, I think this model is about half the price.