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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: dandeliondigital on April 16, 2010, 11:06:22 am

Title: NEED RECOMMENDATION: FW800 Hub
Post by: dandeliondigital on April 16, 2010, 11:06:22 am

I recently bought a few Verbatim FW 800 SureFire Hard Drives, and the first thing you realize is that you cannot daisy chain them. So now I need a FW (Firewire) 800 Hub. I checked the web and planned on buying a Belkin (because of past happiness with their FW400 hub), but soo n discovered the Belkin models are unavailable. A few other brands are, but I have never heard of these names before.

Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Thanks, and so long for now, TOM

Title: NEED RECOMMENDATION: FW800 Hub
Post by: pixpop on April 16, 2010, 01:54:35 pm

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/4316...peater_Hub.html (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/431602-REG/Kramer_VS_30FW_VS30FW_3_Port_FireWire_800_Repeater_Hub.html)

Title: NEED RECOMMENDATION: FW800 Hub
Post by: dandeliondigital on April 16, 2010, 02:37:29 pm

hi pixpop,
So are you using this item?

On an Intel/Mac?

Happy?

(It’s not any bother and performs as you would hope?)

Thanks, and so long for now, TOM

Title: NEED RECOMMENDATION: FW800 Hub
Post by: pixpop on April 16, 2010, 11:05:26 pm

Quote from: dandeliondigital

hi pixpop,
So are you using this item?

On an Intel/Mac?

Happy?

(It’s not any bother and performs as you would hope?)

Thanks, and so long for now, TOM

I use it on an Intel MBP. It's very well made and works perfectly! I also take it with me in my computer bag when I'm on the road and never had a problem.  I've been using it with two g-tech raid minis attached via fw800. It's great.

Title: NEED RECOMMENDATION: FW800 Hub
Post by: dandeliondigital on April 21, 2010, 10:33:30 am

Hi,
Good. I’ll probably get one.

Do you need to use an AC Adapter with 2 drives running on this hub? THe SurFire FW800 drive do have an accessory AC Adapter, but I’d rather KIS.

BTW, are you making a RAID out of the 2 drives?

So long for now, TOM

Quote from: pixpop

It's great.

Title: NEED RECOMMENDATION: FW800 Hub
Post by: dandeliondigital on May 24, 2010, 11:50:02 pm

Hi,
Well I got the Kramer VS-30 FW 800 Hub, and it isn't working correctly on My MacPro Desktop Machine.

I'm having my drive disconnect itself and I get the Improper Device Removal Warning.

I hooked the same drive up to the Apple internal Hub and it works great. Very fast.

So I have a message in to Kramer Tech Support.

Maybe it's defective?

You ever get those errors?

Thanks, and so long for now, TOM

Quote from: pixpop

I use it on an Intel MBP. It's very well made and works perfectly! I also take it with me in my computer bag when I'm on the road and never had a problem.  I've been using it with two g-tech raid minis attached via fw800. It's great.