Maybe the drive is to be formatted first? Before installing in this enclosure? Thanks for bringing this up. I will write them to find out. It was your suggestion for firewire that got me looking into these options in the first place Sven! The site claims that it is a simple switch of the cable to upgrade your connections (all the drives enclosures have the same proprietary connection) without the need to get new drives. It didn't mention NOT having to FORMAT those drives though... Maybe they have special drivers that handle this....?

Most of their enclosures do not include drives. So they couldn't really advertise this as a mobile backup tool because I don't have any way to format a 3.5" drive with my notebook..