Belkin FireWire 6-Port Hub
by Belkin Inc.
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Customer Review: Works fine, light as a feather
Summary: 4 Stars
I write this review only because the negative reviews almost made me not buy the Belkin FireWire Hub. Alas, the options for such a devise are few and far between and unless you want to order something (instead of picking it up at the store) you have even fewer choices.
So, reluctantly, I picked this up and LO! on my Intel MacBook it was 100% plug and play. No software, no freezing, nothing but sweet FireWire action.
At this very moment I have a LaCie DVD Firewire drive, SeaGate 300GB Firewire drive, MOTU 8Pre Firewire Interface and a Canon DV Recorder all plugged in with one more port to spare. I was having trouble daisy chaining all of them before and so far (a few hours) everything has been running great. If I have any trouble I'll update this review.
My only critique is that the hub is so small and light weight it sort of need to be pinned down, otherwise it'll go where ever the wires take it. Just FYI.
Customer Review: No help from Belkin
Summary: 1 Stars
I have two Western Digital Drives, one 1 TB La Cie Big Disk and a lighscribe La Cie DVD burner. This Belkin hub does not support any of these on an Intel iMAC with Mac OS X 10.5.5. If you go to the Belkin web site you will not find a picture or documentation for a F5U526-APL. You will be told your search does not match any Belkin products. What you will find is documentation for FireWire 6-Port Hub #F5U526-WHT. That is a "different" product from the F2U526-APL. In that documentation there is no information about possible compatibility issues. So I give this the worse rating on two counts: 1) The manufacturer does not provide any support in when their products are compatible nor any guidance on how to check for compatibility and 2) this product is not even considered to be one of Belkin's. Is it discontinued? Even so, there should be an entry if Belkin provided "up and out" customer service.Customer Review: Works as expected
Summary: 4 Stars
I have purchased two of these Firewire hubs. They have worked fine with several Western Digital 500GB MyBooks and LaCie 250GB and 500GB Porsche drives connected to an Intel Mac mini, a Mac PowerPC G4, and a Mac Dual PowerPC G5. All computers were running Mac OS X Tiger.
I could not see any performance drop-off when using the hub with one device. (Duplication of a 500-MB blank disc image file on a 250GB LaCie Porsche drive took 30 sec whether the cable was connected directly or indirectly via the Belkin hub to an Intel duo-core Mac mini.)
One warning though: do not connect or disconnect a cable to any Firewire port while burning a DVD on an external Firewire optical drive. You will abort the process with an "unstable interface" error and get a disc only suitable as a coaster!
Customer Review: Great for Hard Drives/Video
Summary: 5 Stars
I was looking all over for a FireWire splitter and this one does a great job. I am a video editor and need lots of FireWire ports. I have 3 external Hard Drives and my video camera running through this port and I can say it works perfectly. I use an Apple G5 and Final Cut, this product has helped me get the info I need onto my drives all while hooked into the same drive. As my monitor and G5 were running out of FireWire ports this literally saved the day for all my video needs.
If you use FireWire a lot, and only use FireWire drives and cameras then this is a must by. I just wish I would have known about it sooner.
Customer Review: it came broken
Summary: 1 Stars
I didn't realize the hub was not working until i went down to a second Mac store and they checked it out and discovered that when they plugged in my Duet Apogee pre amp to one of their Belkin 6 pin firewire hubs it powered the Duet with no problem. The problem I was having was the inability to power my Duet pre-amp from the hub. The Duet only worked when I plugged it into my powerbook G4 directly. I never thought to think that my Belkin hub was dysfunctional until 3 months later having taken many trips to various Apple stores. So now what do I do. Amazon sent me a Belkin hub that doesn't work.