FireWire Depot on Friday introduced several new Serial ATA (SATA) products as well as three new FireWire products: a hard drive enclosure and CD and DVD burners. The SATA products include a US$48.99 removable SATA drive tray compatible with three of the company’s removable drive systems; a $25 SATA pass-through bracket for converting SCSI cases to SATA cases or for accessing internal SATA ports; a variety of SATA multi-drive enclosures; and a $25 SATA PCI bracket that makes internal SATA ports accessible externally.
The Dual Drive FireWire Enclosure includes a FireWire-to-IDE bridge adapter for creating FireWire connectivity in two devices. It’s available in beige ($125) or black ($140). The four-bay FireWire hard drive enclosure accepts up to four hot-swappable 5.25-inch IDE drives and comes in black ($670) or beige ($650), as well as in a version ($740) that comes with LCD screens on the fronts of the trays for monitoring drive temperatures. All of the preceding enclosures offer FireWire 400 connectivity.
The Stor N Burn FireWire DVD Recorder ($440) features a 200GB hard drive and 16X burn speed for single- or dual-layer media, with FireWire 800 connectivity. It comes in black and includes an LCD screen on the front, but you can also buy it without the LCD ($415) or in beige with ($425) or without ($400) the LCD.
The Stor N Burn FireWire CD Recorder ($390) also includes a 200GB hard drive and FireWire 800 connectivity. It burns CDs at 52X speed and also comes without the LCD ($365) or in beige with ($375) or without ($350) the LCD.