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from Indianapolis, IN on 8/10/2009
Comments about Belkin Belkin 6 Port Firewire Hub Supports 6 Pin with Throughput of up to 400Mbps.:
I own three units (so far)! Great to expand a single Firewire port to six, to connect ALL of your firewire devices at once: flatbed scanner, film scanner, digital audio I/O, DV camcorder, and external Hard Disc Drive(s). Firewire-400 generally outperforms USB-2.0 for external hard disk drives, even though USB-2.0 is "faster" in theory (480Mbps vs. 400Mbps) as measured by the HD-Speed freeware utility on several different Firewire/USB or combo HDD units.
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from Phila. PA on 12/29/2008
Comments about Belkin Belkin 6 Port Firewire Hub Supports 6 Pin with Throughput of up to 400Mbps.:
Hooks up several FW drives
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from Calgary, AB, Canada on 11/8/2007
Comments about Belkin Belkin 6 Port Firewire Hub Supports 6 Pin with Throughput of up to 400Mbps.:
This is a great product for anyone with multiple FireWire products and only a few or one FireWire ports on your computer. I used to daisy chain my three external hard drives together, but heard speculation that doing so might damage certain components (perhaps during a power surge, although I'm not certain; a Google search turns up many reviews of daisy chaining).
Being paranoid of the data I have stored on these hard drives, I decided to invest in a FireWire hub. This one works great, and apparently doesn't even need to be plugged in to function (although I use the supplied power cable, since I have access to a plug).
It comes with a FireWire 400 cable, in case you don't have a spare to attach it to the computer. It seems to work as fast as things ran before I got the hub.