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Pyro Notebook Hd Kit
2m Firewire Ieee 1394 4pin/4pin
Belkin F3N102-06 FirePath IEEE 1394 4-Pin to 4-Pin (6 Feet)
15ft Ieee-1394 Firewire Cable 4-6 M/m
Keyspan ZIP-LINQ Retractable Firewire 4-Pin to 4-Pin Cable (K-ZIP-1394-C08)
Belkin 14FT IEEE 1394 Firewire 4Pin/6Pin 400 MBPS 28 Awg Ice
Startech 10ft Ieee-1394 Firewire Cable 4-4 M/m
Cables To Go 3M Firewire IEEE 1394 6Pin/6Pin
Startech 6Ft IEEE 1394 Firewire 4Pin/4Pin
10ft Ieee-1394 Firewire Cable 4-6 M/m
Unibrain 1394 Firewire 10M Cable (6pin/ 6pin) compatible with Mac/95/98/w2k/wme/nt
Cables To Go 5M Firewire IEEE 1394 6Pin/4Pin
10ft Ieee 1394 Firewire Cable 4pin To 6pin
APC RJ45M to RJ45M 10/100BT 50FT Cat5 Patch Cable (Gray)
Belkin 3FT IEEE 1394 Firewire 6Pin/6Pin 400 MBPS 22/28 Awg Ice
IOGEAR 10ft Ieee 1394 Firewire Cable 6-Pin To 6-Pin
Newnex CFA-6402 - IEEE-1394 Six (6) Pin to IEEE-1394 Four (4) Pin 2 Meter Firewire Cable
15ft Ieee-1394 Firewire Cable 6-6 M/m
Belkin F3N100-06 FirePath IEEE 1394 6-Pin to 6-Pin (6-Feet)
Newnex CFA-6403 - 1394 6 To 4 Pin Cable 3 Meter
Newnex CFS-6601 IEEE 1394 6-6 pin Cable 1 Meter
ATake IEEE1394 FLASH PRO cable 1.8M 6pin-4pin (Blue)
ATake IEEE1394 FLASH PRO cable 1.8M 6pin-4pin (Red)
ATake IEEE1394 FLASH PRO cable 1.8M 6pin-6pin (Blue)
Belkin 14FT IEEE 1394 Firewire 6Pin/6Pin 400 MBPS 22/28 Awg Ice

Average customer rating:

ADS Pyro Firewire Enclosure
No good. Lost all my data. Flaky interface.

Pyro Notebook Hd Kit

Manufacturer: ADS Technologies
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

Provides (2) 400 MB/sec FireWire ports; one connects to host computer, and the other can be used for daisy chaining devices such as a second drive, digital camcorder or scanner
Small, lighweight design makes it easy to move your drive between multiple computers, or transport with your notebook
Supports - ATA-IDE, Ultra DMA/33, 66, or 100 2.5 Hard Disk Drives
Requirements - Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP or OS 9.0, available 1394/FireWire port + USB port for notebooks with 4-pin FireWire
Includes screw kit for installing hard drive & drivers for Windows & Mac on CD-ROM

ASIN: B00006B6Q9

Product Description

Turn that extra 2.5-inch notebook hard drive from a paperweight to an external, hot-swappable FireWire drive! Add multi-gigabyte storage to your PC or Macintosh, with a truly mobile solution requiring no external power supply. Power is derived from either the USB power cable or the 2-meter 6-pin to 6-pin IEEE 1394 FireWire cable (both included) See sidebar for desktop FireWire adapter solutions

Customer Reviews:

ADS Pyro Firewire Enclosure.......2003-04-14

On the contrary, this enclosure works flawlessly with both a desktop and notebook (requires USB power boost) with an IBM 20MB 2.5" drive. People are often too quick to pan newly-installed products when what they really have are underlying system glitches.

No good. Lost all my data. Flaky interface........2003-02-20

I have my old income tax data in another notebook drive from back when I had another notebook. This year, I decided not to swap drives in order to do my income taxes.

The Pyro 2.5" Drive Kit (1394 interface) was the first solution I tried. Installation is easy and the whole thing was well made.

I was using a PCMCIA 1394 adaptor which didn't provide the power supply to the 1394 bus. So I used the cable provided by ADS that tapped power from the USB port. The first problem I encountered was that the USB ports on my notebook did not provide enough power for the hard drive.

I dug up a desktop with a USB port and used that as a power source.

Then the second problem : while accessing the drive, the system would hang or freeze for long periods of time. It was as if there was a communication problem between the notebook PCMCIA adaptor and the external drive.

The last straw occurred when I shutdown the system and then ran scandisk on the external drive : all my data disappeared!

I went out today and got a similar product by CompuCable instead and am now running scandisk again. This second solution (although not as well made) appears to be a lot more stable and does not hang or freeze during accesses to the external drive.

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