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

Like a few others here, I see that I need a PSU or my drive won't mount. In this case I have a 320GB 7200rpm Hitachi drive installed and I'm using it with a mid 2007 MacBook Pro (Santa Rosa 2.2GHz, 10.6.2). I bought this case specifically to use the FW800 and bus power. I already had an eSATA case for Hitachi, but my Express eSATA card was unreliable and this case obviously required a power supply. I'm a musician who needs a portable and reliable setup, and I don't like having to deal with warts every time I'm getting ready for a gig. I'm considering returning this because I'm pretty sure my MBP is supplying the right amount of power through its FW ports to run this drive (I've had no issues with other bus-powered enclosures). Strangely, when I first put the drive in this case, it works on bus power. However, at that time I did not try to work hard, I only saw that the drives were mounted normally. Just got back from a burning session where a technician wrote 1.5 gigabytes of files to this drive at once. The drive installed smoothly on his old Mac G4 desktop with FW400 and the file transfer was fine. Now the drive will not mount with bus power. Could it be that in this case the bridge board has circuitry that controls bus power to the drive and failed after transferring a larger than normal file? Also, as others have noted, the case gets very hot. As others have said, it might be heat-dissipating aluminum, which is fine, but I've had several of these 2.5-inch cases and none got as hot as this one.