[rescue] FC-AL drives on sale at geeks.com

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> One word... FireWire :) I never buy an enclosure without it, and never
>> use USB 2.0 on Macs if I can help it.
> 
> I have thought about building a Firewire drive to replace my external  
> 500GB USB2 drive, but I don't know what kind of drive is inside, and  
> taking the Seagate FreeAgent apart might not be reversible.
> 
> Why do these idiots deliberately cripple their enclosures?

FWIW, I can wholeheartedly recommend the Lacie Big Disk Extreme.  Up to 
2TB and USB 2.0, Firewire and Firewire 800 interfaces.  It Just Works(tm).

Peace...  Sridhar