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rabates

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Firewire 800 PC card ?
« on: July 01, 2009, 09:45:01 pm »

I am considering buying a 1394b card for my PC desktop to download UDMA cards with a Firewire 800 reader. I have a PCI slot free and 3 PCIe X1 slots free. PCIe cards are considerably expesive then then PCI. Is there any advantage to PCIe over PCI
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« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2009, 11:20:51 pm »

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I am considering buying a 1394b card for my PC desktop to download UDMA cards with a Firewire 800 reader. I have a PCI slot free and 3 PCIe X1 slots free. PCIe cards are considerably expesive then then PCI. Is there any advantage to PCIe over PCI

I bought a PCIe card for my Mac from OWC and it works great -- 3x FW800 plus 3x USB2 for about $115: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technology/FW8USB2E/
« Last Edit: July 01, 2009, 11:21:13 pm by Jack Flesher »
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« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2009, 12:33:42 am »

I have one of the unibrain pci-e cards. At the time they were the only ones who had FW-800 drivers for Vista x64, but I don't know if that's changed by now. The adapter works fine with my Sandisk FW-800 UDMA card reader, I get over 30MB/s when reading from Extreme IV cards.
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