esata to firewire?

[hatbrox]

Hi,

I own an imac and I'd like to buy the DS351 from Silverstone.
This external raid unit has only esata connector and my imac only has firewire/usb.

I tried to find an cable adapter with firewire 800 on one end and esata on the other end but google did not retrieve the desired results.

Do anyone of you have any suggestion?

Many thanks.

[kumasuki]

check out this gizmo:

"http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-spyder/"

"http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-spyder/pr/launch/hub4.jpg"

[kumasuki]

Here's another (already shipping) eSata-firewire option:

"http://cooldrives.stores.yahoo.net/satofimiad2x.html"

I ended up purchasing this to connect an external SataII blu-ray burner to my laptop bypassing USB.

[hatbrox]

thanks for the update.

I finally changed my external drive for a combo, firewire, sata, usb.
however, the devide you suggest only output to firewire 400.
the gain over usb 2 through the converter must be marginal. have you compared the speed of both interfaces?

[allenhuffman]

I found this posting when searching for information on this Firewire to SATA adapter. What has your experience with it been?

[hatbrox]

I finally kept my Lacie USB+eSata, it's dedicated to Mac OS Time Machine's backups.
So I use USB and speed is very fine for Time Machine.

I decided to buy a NAS enclosure to access my data over the network.