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Firewire 800 Hub

  • 18-06-2007 11:00pm
    #1
    feileacan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 198 ✭✭


    Can anyone help me to find a firewire 800 hub that will allow me to connect a minimum of four external hard drives to a mac.

    the only one ive found is in the US (Nitro AV) but its $155 and another $60 to ship.

    its a bit more than i was willing to pay

    the only ones i can find in Ireland / UK are 3 port which is only two devices and the computer.

    any ideas ?


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  • #2
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    Do the external drives not have an extra firewire port for daisy changing them ?

    Lindy.ie have firewire 800 hubs you can daisy chain together to get the 4 ports you need.

    Or have you considered eSATA would be much faster and controllers are a lot easier to get even OSX compatible ones.


  • #3
    feileacan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 198 ✭✭feileacan


    i currently have three external hard drives (all the same model but 2 are 250Gb and 1 is 500Gb) and they are currently chained using the FW800 connection.

    However, recently the mac doesnt always see all the drives and thought of tryng a hub instead to see if that makes any difference.

    I might get a FW400 before splashing out on a FW800


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