Belkin FireWire 6-Port Hub
by Belkin Inc.
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Customer Review: Noisy for firewire audio interfaces
Summary: 3 Stars
The device works as advertised but is better suited for hard drives than audio interfaces. The audio never cut out, but the noise level probably increased 300-500%. Even without playback and the volume quite low there is an obvious hissing sound. It sounds almost exactly like playing an audio tape. There were no other devices on the hub except a Presonus Firebox. I tried several ports and several cables to no avail.
I'm giving it 3/5 stars because I had intended to use it for Firewire audio + Firewire hard drive with my Mac mini. But I'm sure it's great with firewire drives.
Customer Review: Careful what you wish for
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought both the 7-port USB hub and the 6-port Firewire hub to work with my iBook. Needed more ports. No problem with the USB hub. I attached the Firewire hub, then attached my new Iomega external hard drive, and had a near-disaster which took me a full day to recover from. Turns out my new hard drive is not supposed to be plugged into a hub. No warning from Belkin about that possibility, and a warning from Iomega deep in the CD that came with the drive. So, MAKE SURE YOUR COMPONENTS ARE HUB-COMPATIBLE. That's the little lesson I learned.Customer Review: MAC USERS BEWARE
Summary: 1 Stars
I rate the Belkin 6 port hub a zero. I installed exactly as instructed to my G5 tower. Plugged in 3 external hard drives and an iSight camera. Not one device showed up on my desktop and iSight didn't work at all. I tried a different firewire port on the G5 still nothing.
To boot, the port screwed up my hard drive. I couldn't shut down or restart the usual way. When I finally got the G5 restarted my menu bar was missing. It took several shut downs and restarts to make things right.
Don't take a chance with your computer
Customer Review: Balky & Disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
I had an older Belkin Firewire hub which worked perfectly for about 6 or 7 years, so when it started acting up, I cheerfully replaced it without reservation, with this new model.
It works fine with my hard drives, but consistently makes me disconnect and reconnect a digital camera that I plug into it. I never had that problem with the previous hub. I thought the problem might be a faulty wire so I have tried several different ones with the same spotty results.
Customer Review: Expandability and performance
Summary: 5 Stars
I edit video on my imac computer and store all of my video files on and external hard drive. With only one firewire port on my computer I had to capture video to the internal HD and then copy them to the external one. With this firewire 6 port hub I am able to capture video from my camera straight to the external firewire drive without any dropped frames or failures. It has a nice compact size so it does not take up much desktop space at all.