External case for HD

Hi Everyone,
My mac is stuffed internally to the brim with HDs and I want to add one more. On my internal Sonnet Card I have one more place to attach an HD. I've done so and ran the one cable out the back and attached it to to the drive, which, for minor protective reasons now sits in a small cardboard box. I'm using an OWC Universal Drive Adapter to power the drive, with more attendant wires hanging off.
Inelegant to say the least. I would like to put the drive in a powered case while still having it connected to the Sonnet card. Anyone know of something I cold use that isn't very expensive?
I have a My Book USB drive and a Seagate Free Agent Pro FW drive. I wouldn't mind gutting one of these if I could stick my HD in there. Is that possible?
Thanks in advance.

You could have an external (firewire? I assume) that has either an ide drive or a sata drive.
How would one find that out? Seagates site is a maze. WDs I'm not even going to try now because I can't seem to fashion a search term for, "What kind of hard drives are in your products?".
These both look not too high on the quality list, but I'm wondering if one might do. The SATA cable out the back of my mac can't be helped, but if one of these enclosures provides power to the drive and allows me to connect the cable to my drive, while providing protection, one should do ok.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Macally/PHRS100SUA/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Raidon/I3021SSB2/
I'd love to replace one of my 300gb velociraptors with a TB disk of equal, or preferably greater speed (15k maybe?), but they don't make those yet.
Thanks Tom.
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