Faraday that enclosure looks amazing, and the feature list sounded too good to be true!!!
anyone able to find a price for it in the US? best i can find is here in the UK (span.com) and it's like £100 inc.vat, and £80 without the eSata, which has to be as expensive as enclosures get i imagine. Also i read about someone saying their power supply was fussy, as the product is originally from Australia and may not have designed versions specifically for other regions.
£100 ($200) is a bit too much i think, £50-60 would have been perfect considering you can get a triple interface alum and fanless enclosure for £30. Even in Australia it comes to £80!
to the original poster, i don't know where you live, but it shouldn't be too hard to get an enclosure for a 3.5" IDE that outputs FW800, SATA > FW800 is a bit more tricky i've found though, but not impossible and not crazy expensive.
as for the Sata argument, i've also posted a similar thread but no response. to go Sata, Sata enclosures are very easy to come across, the only hassle is getting the Sata expresscard for your MBP, again depending on where you live, here in the UK cheapest i've found is £80 ($160 US), where as in the US you can get a card for around $50, which is a HUGE difference. I don't remember where i saw the benchmark, eSata beats Fw800 in pretty much every instance, but mostly by a 5-10% margin, except when writing to the disk, where the margin is pretty huge, and i imagine this would be a factor when rendering. But i'm a novice when it comes to the technical nitty gritty, and am also hoping for a reply from someone a bit more knowlegeable. From the sounds of things you won't be editing uncompressed HD, so FW800 should be fine.. but if you are like me and just need to know you are doing your work as fast as possible, then jury is still out AFAIK.
