by hrbngr on Fri Jan 28, 2005 1:44 am
dodeca,
i agree that there are plenty of enclosures available that use the prolific chipset, BUT not every place selling them online lists the chipset of their enclosures. Also, dealsonic.com has a good price, $32, and a good RMA policy, combined w/the fact that a number of ppl in the cdfreaks thread have had great luck w/the unit--though not always burning at 16x.
so, i went ahead and ordered the enclosure and a firewire pcmcia card, also jpentel had already ordered a stortecc unit, which is made by the same manufacturer as Plumax.
I was having horrible luck finding a good enclosure locally, and although some ppl in this forum have had decent luck w/the oxford 911 chipset, enough ppl in the other thread could not get burning speeds even as high as 12x w/one...so i decided to go w/the prolific set instead.
also, i would be very interested if you know of someone selling an enclosure made of aluminum w/firewire/usb2.0 and a prolific chip, w/an external power supply, so that the enclosure does NOT have a fan--that would be optimal for me.