ESATA enclosures for early 2008?

Hi all,
I have an early 2008 (3,1 8x 3Ghz)
I am ditching a USELESS Buffalo NASty and will be exposing the two hidden, spare SATA ports with a backplate to connect the drives to be rescued, as I see little to be gained by adding a SATAIII card when a) PCIe maxes out at 5Gbps b) no SATAIII enclosures seem to be out there.
Thus I am in the market for 2x eSATAII (or SATAIII if any do in fact exist!?) enclosures.
Question: Is there a chipset between the eSATA connector and SATA drives, or is it a simple passthrough?
Question: Does anyone have any recommendations or places to look for performance/quality comparisons between enclosures?
I am UK/Singapore based, so alas the "ideal" unit, a $49 OWC eSATA dual eSATA, dual drive box (i.e. not port multi)  is not really tempting when it costs more to ship it to either place than buy it! (Bookyard only does the quad interface for £90+, empty...).
FWIW, I will stear clear of LaCie, having been through too many PSUs!
Thanks in advance

Try the same case but on Amazon UK.
I heard too many stories of LaCie too, shame as I was customer back in SCSI early to mid-90s.
Native SATA is still the same and those ports will give you full SATA2.

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