Adding six FireWire ports to your computer couldn’t be easier. The Belkin 6-Port FireWire Hub stands vertically on your desktop, conserving precious desktop space as it saves you from reaching behind your computer for ports.
Simply plug your high-speed, Zip, optical, or disk drive, scanner, printer, and other peripherals into the five rear Hub ports; a sixth port is conveniently located up front for easy access for your digital camera or other portable peripherals.
The unit stands alone or docks with additional Hubs, making it easy to put all your multimedia gear on the ultrafast FireWire track. FireWire technology supports up to 63 devices on one computer with Plug-and-Play ease.
The Belkin 6-Port FireWire Hub’s sculpted, breakthrough design is aesthetically pleasing as it is functional. Intrinsic cable management flows your cables from the Hub in single file arc, reducing desktop clutter.
Advantages- Connect six FireWire devices
- Hot swap FireWire electronics, digital cameras, and computer peripherals
- Transfer data at incredible FireWire speedsup to 400Mbps and 30 times more bandwidth than USB
- Store or transfer large multimedia files seamlessly to or from PC, DV camcorders, music synthesizers, drives, and other peripherals
1 Looks good, poor function
The nice shape comes at the expense of good design. The vertical stand isn't up to holding the weight of installed cables and it easily pops out of place. The cosmetic shield gets in the way of seeing your cables and the curved connector surface makes access to cables fussy.
I'm finding the unit I've been using for many months to be unreliable with hard drives and other fast devices. These work fine when connected directly to a 1304 port. I'm looking for a replacement.
