What is the difference between firewire 400 and firewire 800. Firewire, or ieee 94, is another connection type that was popular for a while, but has kind of gone away over the last few years. And with a rugged, fanless aluminum chassis, this external powerhouse runs cool and quiet in any environment. Not included on raidbank5 diskless storage solution. The popularity of usb 2 and usb 3 devices slowed adoption of firewire, resulting in the slow decline of the connection. Small and compact, it connects to the thunderbolt port on your mac computer, giving you a firewire 800 port that supplies up to 7w for buspowered peripherals like. Using a quadinterface esata, firewire 800, firewire 400, usb 2.
Plugandplay, hot swap compatible, allows connection and disconnection of firewire devices without shutting down computer. Amazons choice for firewire to usb adapter elago firewire 400 to 800 adapter white for mac pro, macbook pro, mac mini, imac and all other computers 4. An esata port would normally be used for connecting an external hdd or bluraydvd drive to the laptop. It can exceed transfer rates of 80 megabytes per second using firewire 800 and up to 1500 megabytes per second via esata. This week at the nab conference, firmtek is showing booth sl 1238 their new sata expresscard34 host adapter seritek2sm2e for the macbook pro. Fantom drives greendrive quad hard drive 2 tb firewire 800 firewire usb 3. The compact external drive features a shockresistant design and blue activity led behild the front grille. I have currently attached the external hdd to the usb port, but the data transfer is slow. Link to connect external devices, such as a hard drive or a digital video camera, without needing to restart your computer. Because these are larger drives i have in continuous use, i bought the firewire adapters, and they nearly doubled the transfer speed to these drives. Owcme3qhkitsw owc mercury elite pro esata, firewire 400800. Pasow firewire 94b 800 ieee 9 pin to 9 pin male to male cable for mac pro, macbook pro, mac mini, imac pc,digital cameras, slr 9 pin to 9 pin 4.
Now my macbook takes firewire 400 with this adapter. Thru s2f adapter, you could easily buy the storage device which supports esata port for your old mac pro pc which only has firewire. Glyph studioraid 4tb 2bay raid desktop external hard drive with usb 3. But seagate sells an adapter that swaps out the drives usb 3. Yes, i know they use completely different interfaces so it would need a controllerconverter chip like a sata to usb adapter. This nitroav host bus adapter is a professional grade esata94b firewire 800 combo pci express x4 4 lane, designed for mac pro and windows users for virtually any device. Small and compact, it connects to the thunderbolt port on your mac computer, giving you a firewire 800 port that supplies up to 7w for buspowered peripherals. Firewire 800 to thunderbolt adapter write 66 mbs, read 76 mbs. Build a pc esata to firewire ieee94 techspot forums. Cable builders ieee 94b firewire 800 400 cable 9 pin. Firewire 800 and usb hard drive enclosure sep 12, 2012 i have a 1tb western digital 7200 rpm black sata internal hard drive that i no longer use and would like to put it into an external enclosure to use with my mac mini 2011 for backup amd data storage. The d2 quadra has got the enhanced connectivity with usb 3. However, if there was an adapter that could allow me to connect all of my usb 3. The firewire 800 port even provides up to 7w of power for your buspowered external hard drive solution needs.
Many firewire 800 drives commanded a premium over their cheaper usb offerings. We had a chance to test it along with their redesigned two tray sata enclosure seritek2en2. And in answer to your original question, no you cant use the esata port to connect a firewire device as the 2 connections use different protocoles and therefore wont be able to communicate with each other. I can even use a firewire 800thunderbolt adapter to connect to my macbook air. A firewire port provides power, so the connected device usually doesnt need its own power cord many mac computers have one or more firewire 400 ports that transfer data at up to 400. Wd my book studio edition wdh1q7500 hard drive 750 gb.
Firewire 800 is the recent version of this bus interface hardware, that can be used to transfer data through special ports, that are available in mac computers. My old camcorder only has an output of firewire 400, but my macbook pro only takes a firewire 800. Expands esata direct connect enclosure connectivity to include firewire 800400usb 2. Includes intech hard disk speedtools, prosoft data backup 3, and novastor novabackup for windows. Product title usb to firewire 94 4 pin ilink adapter cable 5ft average rating. How to connect firewire 800 9 pin to 400 4 pin and 6 pin professional cable. The apple thunderbolt to firewire adapter enables you to easily connect up to 63 externally powered firewire 800 devices to your thunderbolt portequipped computer.
Technological difference as i mentioned before, sata is the bus interface used for most hard drives, for internal data transfer. Use your existing firewire 400 devices with the latest mac mini, imac, and macbook pro 17 models, which only come equipped with firewire 800 and usb 2. A wide variety of sata firewire 800 options are available to you, such as paid samples. Wd my book studio edition wdh1q7500 hard drive 750 gb firewire 800 firewire usb 2. Is there any such thing as a firewire 800 to usb 3. Has anyone done any benchmarks on their mac laptops with a firewire 800 external and esata external drive with some sort of pcmcia adapter. I will soon be buying a macbook pro it has a firewire 800, and i will be buying a 2tb raid drive which has a usb and esata. The only difference was the cable connecting the voyager to the mac pro.
Plug and play existing digital devices such as scanners, printers, memory card readers, digital cameras, and ipods quickly and economically. Akitio thunder dock thunderbolt docking station akitio. You can use firewire sometimes called ieee 94 or i. It is such a simple and useful thing, i wouldnt believe it if they didnt exist. The device manager lists the firewire adapter as, texas instruments 94 ohci compliant host controller. Easily connect your thunderboltequipped mac to a firewire device with the apple thunderbolt to firewire adapter. Lacie lac9000258ek 4 tb d2 quadra professional firewire. Firewire 800 ieee94b 2 port and 400 ieee94a 1 port to mini pcie controller card simpe30018. Expands esata direct connect enclosure connectivity to include firewire 800 400usb 2. Dual sata hard drive docking station direct high speed sata port on docking station to esata port on notebook or desktop pc connects two sata ports on docking station to two esata ports on computer supports up to 2 hard. As far as the majority of modern external hard drives possess usb 3.
It was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by apple, which called it firewire, in cooperation with a number of companies, primarily sony and panasonic. Firewire 400 cables are capable of transferring up to 480 mbps. Imagine a situation when you have a mid2010 imac with a firewire 800 along with usb 2. Wow, i had no idea that esata is 20x faster than fw800. Provides mac os boot capability to external esata enclosures. However esata storage always needs its own power source. With the esata hub esata from drive to hub, thunderbolt from hub to imac write 82 mbs. This occurred even though firewire 400 and 800 are faster than previous usb technologies not including 3. Sata firewire 800, sata firewire 800 suppliers and. That is why some of them wonder if an adapter that would match firewire 800 port with a usb 3. This unit has 5 x 4tb hitachi 7200 rpm drives for a maximum of 20tb of storage.
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