Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adaptor

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  • 4.0 out of 5 stars

    no bus power for Focusrite Saffire Pro 24

    • Written by from Zofingen

    114 of 129 people found this useful

    Finally it's here and it's a great product, however my Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 won't power up on bus power - I have to use the external power supply. 7W should be enough to power the device....

    Was this useful? no bus power for Focusrite Saffire Pro 24

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  • 4.0 out of 5 stars

    works fine so far!

    • Written by from Tempe

    33 of 34 people found this useful

    I used it with my MOTU audio interface. So far so good. I just noticed a little overheat of the adapter, but I don't know if it is normal.

    Was this useful? works fine so far!

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  • 4.0 out of 5 stars

    Works great, but warm/hot?

    • Written by from Austin

    27 of 28 people found this useful

    Works great, nice to have my old FW800 stuff back for my new MBA. However, the adapter and plug at the laptop are really warm and sometimes very hot. Doesn't seem quite right...

    Was this useful? Works great, but warm/hot?

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  • 4.0 out of 5 stars

    Wish it had a thunderbolt out port

    • Written by from Menlo Park

    30 of 34 people found this useful

    So here I am with my MacBook Air with a mini-displayport-to-DVI adapter feeding my monitor, and I have to unplug the monitor in order to plug in my firewire 800 disk.

    Admittedly, this product was never advertised as a hub, and the price is a heckuva lot better than just about any other thunderbolt product out there, but thunderbolt still has a way to go before I can even do simple stuff that firewire and USB did from the get-go. I don't totally regret my MacBook Air purchase, but Apple hasn't made it easy to love the product.

    Was this useful? Wish it had a thunderbolt out port

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  • 4.0 out of 5 stars

    It works

    • Written by from Alamo

    17 of 19 people found this useful

    Some guy mentioned it couldn't power his Lacie Rugged drive... well it works with mine (2.5") ... maybe he had a 3.5?

    Minus a star because of the wait, and it's a bit longer than I'd hoped.

    Was this useful? It works

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  • 4.0 out of 5 stars

    Works as advertised

    • Written by from Laval

    8 of 9 people found this useful

    I got this cable earlier in the week so that I could connect my old G-Drives through my TB G-Raid then to my new late 2012 iMac.

    I have 4 G-Drives (2 x 1TB and 2x 3TB) plus a g-drive mini (500GB) using FW800 and a 4TB G-Raid using TB.

    I Daisy chained all my G-Drives with FW800 (including my g-drive mini) into my G-Raid with this cable and it worked flawlessly. Even my g-drive mini that has no AC adapter got enough power to work as normal. Added bonus was that my speeds seem to be faster than when I had all these drives plugged into my 2010 Macbook Pro. I was transferring ~60GB of RAW images from my g-drive mini to my G-Raid at 87 MB / sec.

    I have been using this setup for a week now (4 + hours a day) transferring files back and forth with zero issues.

    I gave it a 4 / 5 just because I do not like the fact I needed an adapter to connect technology that apple made into an apple product. I think they should have kept at least 1 FW800 port on their new iMac's.

    Was this useful? Works as advertised

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