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I need more FireWire hubs for my MacBook pro 13"
What do people suggest? Not got the biggest budget.
What do people suggest? Not got the biggest budget.
Need more firewire
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Anyone?
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Ah I thought I did put it in there. Thanks for pointing that out Neil.
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cowasaki said:
Much appreciated.
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duttytd said:
There are a couple of options here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-F5U526ukAPL-S-FireWire-6-Port-hub/dp/B000A7IDVG
I've used the Belkin one, but assume you need FW800, unfortunately FW hubs are pretty pricey...
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duttytd said:
Are you sure that you need a hub? It's pretty rare that people do.
How many FireWire devices are you tying to attach to your MBP? You can daisy-chain up to 63 of them together.
If you really need more than that and you have an MBP with Thunderbolt and need an additional FireWire bus, it's probably cheaper to get a Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter.
http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD464ZM/A
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Musicman said:
Well I have about 5 thing I want to connect to FireWire and have only 1 port and no thunderbolt.
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I had a couple of FW800 drives which all had pass throughs. Do you really need them all at the same time.
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cowasaki said:
Yeah one is my audio interface, one is my TC powercore, one a compressor and I have a few other things.
What is a pass through?
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It's a 2nd FW socket on the device do you can plug that device into another one. There are FW hubs available but they are just not cheap. Shame you don't have a 17" as they have several FW ports and you can plug a cardbus FW interface in too. How many FW ports do you actually have and how many in total do you need at one time.
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cowasaki said:
I have one on the 13" MBP and I could get away with just 3 plugged in at a time then I can swap one for another as and when I need it.
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Well there is this 3 x FW800 hub at about £65:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32911-LIN...es_Adapters&hash=item3a78b16445#ht_1382wt_972
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this 6 port FW400 device at £27
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/6-port-IE...s_Adapters&hash=item2320e44124#ht_3805wt_1386
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32911-LIN...es_Adapters&hash=item3a78b16445#ht_1382wt_972
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this 6 port FW400 device at £27
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/6-port-IE...s_Adapters&hash=item2320e44124#ht_3805wt_1386
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cowasaki said:
Would the £27 one do what I need it to?
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cowasaki said:
Thanks a lot for the help.
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I had the 17", they have both. If he is connecting one thing at the moment then he must have "computer to FW400" so just needs one FW400 to FW400 for each device. If he does have both a FW400 & FW800 then he could connect one device via a lead.
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philshep said:
I have a FW400 to 800 cable at the moment was fairly cheap off the bay.