FireWire Question

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green17

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Hello,
I just ordered a presonus firestudio 26x26. My question is about the firewire connection. I've got a SIIG 1394 firewire card with a TI chipset in it. I believe this is a 6-pin connection. My question is, should I shell out 35 bucks for a 800 mbps cord from BestBuy? Or would a 100/200/400 cable (that cost about $5) do okay for me? Thanks!!
 
If the size of the cord is related to the speed of info transfer, then you should get the big one. Won't the Firestudio come with a firewire cord?
 
A FW800 cord isn't going to do you any good.... that interface is a FW400 and wont go any faster than that.

FW400 can keep up with over 100 cd-quality audio streams anyway...thats why you dont see a lot of FW800 interfaces-- they just dont need any more bandwidth than FW400.
 
what about USB cables? are the $30 ones at best buy better than the random ones I got?

also I have a 9-pin(FW 800) external hard-drive port and a 4-pin(1394) port on my laptop. what does that say about how fast it is?
 
I would love to use the FireWire cord that comes with the unit, but I'm buying it used. There's no cord coming with it. So, $30 cord from BestBuy or $1 cord from Dollar Tree?
 
green17 said:
I would love to use the FireWire cord that comes with the unit, but I'm buying it used. There's no cord coming with it. So, $30 cord from BestBuy or $1 cord from Dollar Tree?
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There will be no difference between then really other then the quality, but I'm sure the best buy one isn't much better in quality to justify the price.
 
If the $1 cord works, you win.

If it doesn't, you're only out a dollar and can still go get the $30 one.

('ya gotta learn to think things thru..... :-) )
 
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