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Monitor your Hard Drive performance. DV video SMART Hard Drive Enclosure - $189
Overview
Price: $189
Platform: Mac OS 9 / Mac OS X / Win 98SE / Win 2000 / Win XP / 2000 Server
Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours
Requirements: OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 bus card, IDE/ATA Hard disk drive
Warranty: One year parts and labor.**
IEEE 1394 FireWire Ultra 100 IDE Smart Case Kit with Built-in Power Supply
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These SMART CASES are designed to support all 3.5" hard drives. Built in diagnostics eliminate any questions associated with performance, characteristics, specifications, and operation. The case gives you all the information you need to keep your data safe and secure. It's like having your own technician built into your drive.Quick Features
- Supports ATA-6 Large capacity drives(sizes 137 GB and up)
- Easy Plug and Play Use With both Mac and PC
- 5.25" Enclosure perfect for creating your own external DVD/CD burner
- Heavy Duty 50 Watt internal Power Supply
- The first to support OSX 10.1
- Our special firmware provides increased compatability with more drive mechanisms, including WD100, and the Maxtor160
- 2nd generation Oxford 911 FireWire Chips allow fast 35 Mb/s transfer rates
- 30 day Money Back Guarantee
- Extra heavy duty power supply built in
- Dual 6 pin powered IEEE1394/FireWire/iLink ports in rear
- Sturdy metal case shelled in ABS plastic
- Dual Fan system in the smaller kit keeps the drive extra cool
- Internal Teflon IDE/ATA cabling
Common Questions
- Why should I buy a FireWire enclosure?
- How easy is it to install?
- How good is the support?
- Why do these products blow the competition away?
- What hard drive do you recommend for the enclosure system?
- What's included?
Details Your data is important, so why trust it to cheap enclosure? The DVvideo.com FireWire enclosure is a premium enclosure that can not be beat. Not only are they the fastest FireWire Enclosures on the market, they also use higher quality components. Here are some of the things that set DVvideo.com enclosures apart.
Supports ATA-6 - Large Capacity Drives
Supports S.M.A.R.T. - Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
Ever wondered what's really going on inside that box? With the new line of SMART Drives from DVvideo.com, you will never have to wonder again. This FireWire IEEE1394 enclosure includes a Microprocessor and LCD display that will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about your drive's condition. Built in diagnostics eliminate any questions associated with performance, characteristics, specifications, and operation. It's like having your own technician built into every case. The case also monitors drive performance for speed-intensive operations like DV and AV and it helps keep your data safe and secure.
So, if you're looking for the safest place to store your data, and if you like the idea of knowing what's going on before you have a problem, then the SMART Drive from DVvideo.com is the drive for you. Unlike other FireWire companies, our manufacturer writes its own firmware and supports more drives than anyone else. Our easy to use upgrade and browser utilities keep us ahead of the competition while giving our customers the information that they need....spoil yourself and Get Smart.
Support all 3.5" hard drives.
Teflon Covered IDE/ATA Cables
Inside the enclosure you will find a premium IDE/ATA Teflon cable connecting your hard drive to your bridge board. The Teflon cable increases longevity and shielding insuring less of a chance for data corruption.Speed
Our engineers constantly test and tweak the enclosure systems to race towards having the fastest and most reliable enclosures on the market. The results? Using the second generation chips, DVvideo.com Hard Drive enclosures scream along at a 35MB/s sustained transfer rate*. The bridge board we designed, and the chips we use allow us to achieve speeds faster than any other competing enclosure. Don't be stuck with a FireWire enclosure that crawls along at 15 MB/s transfer rate, use the best and fly along at 35 MB/s.Price
It may be possible to find a Fire Wire enclosure for slightly less however, it is not possible to find a faster, more reliable, higher quality enclosure. When you compare price to performance, our products are very hard to beat.
Specifications Dimensions: 1.4”H x 6.4”W x 8.2”D
Power Supply:
25W TUV/CE/UL/CSA, 90-264 VAC Universal AC In, +5V 3.0A -- +12V 2.0A
Data Transfer Rate: 40 MB per second
Device Support: 3.5" IDE Ultra DMA 33/666/100/133 Hard Drives
Large Drive Support: ATA 6 Supports Large Drives Over 137 GB
Connectors: 2 IEEE 1394 6 Pin Type, 1 IDC Power In
LCD Module: 20 Character x 2 Backlit Diagnostic Dispaly
Compatibility:
IEEE 1394-1995 and 1394A, IDE Ultra ATA 100 Bus - MAC & PC Compatible
OS Compatibility:
All OS's that support IEEE-1394 or that have a compliant card & software.
Cable Limitations:
4.5 meters with standard cables, 10 meters with DVvideo.com Premium cables.
Built-In: Diagnostics, Drive Test, FireWire Test, System Info, and Speed Indication.*Speed tests performed on G4 733 using a IBM GXP mechanism. Speeds may be slower if a slower hard drive or computer system is being used. Having additional peripherals on the same fire wire bus chain may reduce performance speeds as well.
**Warranty, Support provided by Relax Technology.
Why should I buy a FireWire enclosure? If you are doing video editing, you need unlimited fast storage. With DV video sucking up 3.6 MB per second, your hard drive storage space can become limited very fast. Just capturing 10 minutes of video would take up about 2.1 Gigs of storage. If you wanted to add a filter to your video, you would need another 2.1 Gigs to render the file out. That means you would need a total of 4.2 Gigs of storage to edit 10 minutes of video. As you can see, even if you are a novice video editor, there is a need for additional affordable storage that is fast enough to handle video. Luckily there is.
FireWire is not just for hooking up DV video cameras. It can also be used to hook up Hard Drives with plug and play ease. In the past, the FireWire enclosures could only maintain speeds that were barely fast enough for video. Compared to the internal hard drive inside your computer, these speeds are very slow. Additionally, because there are so many opportunities for data interruptions, frames of video could be dropped because the hard drive enclosure couldn't maintain the speed that was necessary to capture all the frames of video. Speed is important. Finally, it is available in a FireWire solution. The new DVvideo.com Hard Drive Enclosures run at a sustained 35 MB/s. At these speeds, you can capture and transfer video with ease.
How easy is it to install? It is very easy to set up. Simply pop an IDE/ATA hard drive into the enclosure, plug in the power cable and connect your computer to the fire wire enclosure. The computer will then automatically recognize the new hard drive and ask to format your new hard disk. Select Yes. That's it. You're done. In the event that your computer is so old that it doesn't already have the standard drivers to support the drive, we have an easy to use installer included with the enclosure for both Mac and PC. If you still have problems, we have a phone number (510.471.6442) to call for support.
How good is the support? Our support is excellent. Simply click on the support link. Once there, you will find software updates, answers and explanation to problems, as well as a phone number in the event that your problem is not solved. We take customer service very seriously. Unlike many other online companies, every technical support call is given the same priority as a sales call. Our manufacturing and support partner, Relax Systems, is a strong and established company that has been in the external storage business for 20 years. You can feel confident in buying these products because they are backed by a strong company.
Why do these products blow the competition away? To date, no true FireWire storage products exist for consumers. What has been available in the past is an IDE hard drive that has been thrown into a box with an IDE to FireWire converter called a bridge.
A product can only go as fast as the slowest part. The bottle neck has been in the bridge, slowing the transfer rate to a crawling 15MB/s per second.
15MB/s is much faster than an external USB drive, but when compared to an Internal IDE drive or UltraSCSI, it is quite slow.
These new second generation bridges have significantly changed the bottleneck. The new drives can obtain a sustained 35MB/s transfer rate! And because these boxes are one of the first drives to use the new bridges, it will be hard to find these speeds anywhere else. The drives are easy to set up, faster than the competition, and cheaper than SCSI solutions.
What hard drive do you recommend for the enclosure? Currently, we recommend the Hitachi series drives. In our experience, these drives have proven to be the most reliable and have achieved the maximum performance. With a three year warranty, high speeds, and the lowest failure rate, the Hitachi drives are very hard to beat. However, any ATA/IDE drive you choose will work.
What's included? One DVvideo.com SMART FireWire Enclosure Kit
One Power Cord
Free 3 ft. 6 pin FIREVue™ Gold Diagnostics Cable ($29 dollar value)
Charismac Software for Macintosh(Just add a drive!)
