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Add ons for Quad
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Does anyone know of a place to get another firewire card and a usb carb to put into my quad? I desperately need more ports for peripherals and I don't want to use a hub. I am having difficulty finding cards that are compatible due to the PCI express need. Thanks.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Is there a PCI Express card with just Firewire 800 ports? I'm looking for something like 4 Firewire 800 ports on one card...
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Originally Posted by angelmb
Yah, I misread, and posted PCI cards
Originally Posted by F*ckDell
Is there a PCI Express card with just Firewire 800 ports? I'm looking for something like 4 Firewire 800 ports on one card...
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firew...i-pcmcia-cards
(that's the page that angelmb provided) What you are looking for is there.
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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What you need is a HUB, not another card. Both Firewire & USB hubs are available. Make sure you buy a model that is self-powered, or you may run into problems if the connected devices draw too much power from the Mac.
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No, he needs a card. FireWire 800 split four ways by a hub becomes, effectively, FireWire 200...not good for high-bandwidth work like I'm sure he wants to do.
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Originally Posted by Mister Elf
No, he needs a card. FireWire 800 split four ways by a hub becomes, effectively, FireWire 200...not good for high-bandwidth work like I'm sure he wants to do.
That is only if he is using all four devices simultaneously. I could see someone using two, but four?
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Originally Posted by Tuoder
That is only if he is using all four devices simultaneously. I could see someone using two, but four?
Well, you could have something like four hard drives in external cases set up as a software RAID. Not optimal, but possible. Or you could be grabbing data from multiple HD Video sources and dumping it to firewire drives... Anyone who has a quad is probably doing all sorts of weird things
But about the cards, if you track down the compatible chipsets, then you can try PC suppliers with cards with the same chipsets, and save some money. You should be able to get PCI-e firewire 800 cards fairly easy. USB 2 cards might be a bit harder... but there's always OWC
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