[by Berger] [from Some Actual Apple Macintosh Questions]
On Firewire cases:
I’ve been through a number of external cases – both cheap and not so cheap – and have settled into a couple that work very well for the way I do business.
I go through a bunch of drives per year because I save all of my PSD build files for clients so I can re-purpose for other jobs. I like a tray system and this one from Stardom has worked well for me for the past couple of years. You can buy separate trays for SATA and IDE. I use both 400FW and 800FW/USB2 versions. About $100 for the 400 and $125 for the 800/USB. Trays have been $10 each through newegg, but they don’t carry them any more and I’ve seen them going fro about $22 on average. I bought about 15 trays within the last 2 years – they all work perfectly. I keep the loaded trays in my fire safe when I’m not accessing files.
