12-04-2009, 01:30 PM
jdc wrote:
I semi understand its the bridge board... and although my 2.5" WD 400 gig FW800 portable drive only has one FW800 port, I only paid $99 for the whole dang thing...
and I have never cared for the clear cases either, they have had them for at least 10 years?
and fwiw, I have a few of the 3.5" AL IDE FW800 cases, the construction is stellar.
Well purely from a pricing standpoint, think about how many computers have USB 2.0 ports (all of them, for the past 5 or 6 years at least) versus how many computers have a FW800 port (maybe 1 percent of all computers sold in the same time period?)
So that means for manufacturers, FW800 is basically a niche protocol, and for many, not worth developing for. So yes, anything with a FW 800 port is going to be exponentially more expensive.
I've had a number of cheap USB cases, they come and go. They're commodity items. I don't use them for serious storage. However, I still have almost every Firewire case (400 and 800) I've ever bought.