Lacie Firewire 400 To Firewire 800 Flat reviews – what do others think about Lacie Firewire 400 To Firewire 800 Flat?
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29 of 30 humans found the following review helpful.
Excellent, well designed adapter.
By Frank E. Trinkle
Alas, Apple and others have seen fit to eliminate the Firewire 400 ports on their computers in favor of single Firewire 800 ports. This has resulted in the need for adapter cables like these to concede the use of the a lot of existent Firewire 400 (1394a) peripherals with Firewire 800 (1394b) ports. The vast majority of these peripherals are Digital Videocams and external Hard Drive enclosures, as well as others.
These Flat Cable adapters are splendid in design and function. (OK… so the color is a little “loud”, but we aren’t buying them for esthetics are we?? LOL). Function follows design, and these cables work perfectly out of the box. The connector ends are robust and well made. The price is very reasonable, in particular when equated to what you would compensate for an equivalent in places like Best Buy.
Note: You may daisychain Firewire peripherals and mix FW400 with FW800 in the same chain… HOWEVER, be conscious that if you have a FW400 peripheral anyplace in a FW800 chain, ALL the peripherals in the chain are scaled down to FW400 speeds. So if you have a speedy FW800 Hard Drive that you likewise attach a FW400 peripheral to, your HD is scaled down to FW400 transfer speeds.
All firewire will likely be considered bequest soon because we are in all likelihood less than a year from USB 3.0 implementation which will offer significantly higher transfer speeds than any firewire scheme presently available or in development.
9 of 9 humans found the following review helpful.
Poor connection to my MacBook
By Z. Steiner
The flat cable seemed like a good idea and I liked the easy to pick out orange, but this cable’s architect chose form over function. The flat cable does not lay the way most cables do. Also, the 800 end of the cable does not make a firm connection with my MacBook Pro; there is very noticeable gap amid the cable and the edge of my case, whereas it will have to be flush (like each USB and other cable I connect to the computer). Further, the cable’s connection is wobbly and comes disconnected on accident ofttimes (and partially disconnected even more regularly). For instance, removing my Mini DisplayPort connection oftentimes disconnects the FW cable as well. I don’t recognise if this is an issue with LaCie’s cable design or Apple’s FW port design, but the cable is not flush in the FW 400 end connected to my audio interface (Echo AudioFire4).
The worst for last: static seems to interfere with the operation of the cable. When I touch anything that produces a static charge (in the arid climate of Colorado that’s most everything), signal to my interface is interrupted. Owning the interface for close to 2 years prior using the included FW 400 cable on my old MacBook Pro, this never happened once. Unfortunately, new MacBook Pros only sport a FW 800 port, thence the need for such a convertor cable. Now, there are a number of confounds here, but the cable seems the most likely candidate.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Lost connection
By John Doe
I’ve gotten 2 of these cables and both of them were wrong on delivery. Can’t flex the cable at all once connected or it loses the connection. Guess I’ll stick with my ridiculously long Belkin cable that maintains a solid connection…
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