Orange Micro FIREWRE 800/USB2.0 HD ENCLOSURE ( 70HDC00001 )

Rating:
Summary: Terrible instructions
Review: I'm not thrilled with this enclosure. My first problem was that the installation of the drive required smashing the connecting cable in half. I think the cable is sufficiently delicate that such abuse shouldn't be required. It took me several tries before I could get the drive to work with the enclose lid in place. The space is too small between the drive and the enclose electronics, and the cable is too long. Now that it is working, I dislike a couple of things about it. It doesn't automatically turn off when my Mac is shut down. I have to switch off the drive manually. The fan on the drive is also much noisier than on any off-the-shelf external hard drive/enclosure I've bought in years. In a quiet room it is annoying. I don't know yet if the drive, enclosure, or the cable caused this problem, but the drive spontaneously disconnected during use once. It remains to be seen if this repeats itself. I would at least investigate other FireWire 800 enclosure options before buying this one.