Hey all -
I do all my media capture and storage on Firewire enabled IDE 7200 drives.

Up til now, I've been using ADS PYRO firewire enclosures. At the end of a job, I remove the hard drive from the enclosure and store the whole job away - ripe for revisions, at a later date, with all the VEG, media, sound, art, correspondance, etc. Archived in the same place. It makes a "redo" a lot easier, and the cheap cost of storage today, makes it all worthwhile.

So... I've discovered a new firewire enclosure. It's not cheaper than the cheapest, but it is tiny and it is easy to change the drives. Basically it's a little interface that simply plugs into the hard drive itself. (Don't do this HOT- that is, unplug the firewire from your computer, and then unplug the power cord, BEFORE changing hard drives. The unit comes with a little steel base plate that protects the bottom of your hard drive. You can buy additional base plates separately, at what I think is a high, but not forbidding price. Hopefully the cost of the unit and the base plates will drop when they can get these units into a mass market.

Here's the link www.wiebetech.com

check out the "docking system". They also have a more standard enclosure.