LINDY 3 Port FireWire 800 Repeater Hub (32911)

The unit is cheaply made. Not a real 4 port repeater. One port must be used as a connection port. The biggest draw back is the European electrical connection. With an adapter it may have crashed my HD. Returning it to Amazon.

Junk! I purchased this in hopes of adding greater stability to my Firewire connections over daisy-chaining. Instead, with use of this unit, my system had much greater instability, including drives un-mounting out of the blue, connected devices not working, data not transferring, etc.. I had to pull it out of my system and go back to daisy-chaining the Firewire, and things are working much more reliably now! Even if this device worked properly, I would consider it over-priced, since it is actually a simple splitter (one in; two out), and should therefore not even be called a "hub". Worst purchase I've made in a very long time!

This is the worst possible repeater and a complete rip off. I owned this repeater for more than 5 years and it has never ceased to make me angry about the quality. It does not complete with a us plug and the packaged adapter has a fault contact. A slight shake will disconnect the device. The price is sky high just because no one else is offering an alternative. I used to pay $80 and this is now $130!

Ordered through Amazon and it took 3 weeks to get here. When I opened it, the plug is not one that will work in the US. Contacted Amazon about it and they could not help me and gave me a refund. Nice to get the refund but it doesn't help me have a Firewire Hub that works.

The power adapter that is supplied with this hub comes with a plug that doesn't fit a US 110 volt powerpoint (electrical outlet), and this is not even mentioned or illustrated in the scant literature that comes with the hub. Presumably one needs another powerpoint adapter (not included) to allow it to be plugged in, and one would then have to hope that this doesn't end up frying the hub, or one's computer. Very stupid and annoying.

It would appear that Lindy falsely backed their item. While they sent me a second one to test, they never admitted fault in giving me any refund for purchasing it, when I found out both the original product, and the replacement were defective. Nowhere did they inform me ahead of time I had to use the original packaging. And here I read now on Amazon at least two other people attempted buying it to no avail. Wish I had read these reviews ahead of time. The device simply does not work as advertised. Hubs share data through a single port to multiple devices. Calling it a hub is false advertising.

Sehr gut

Je photographie avec un dos numérique connecté en Firewire. Ce hub et lui seul permet de travailler avec les dernières génération de Mac mini possédant un Firewire moins puissant que les précédents.

Mi riserbo di modificare la recensione perché questo lettore ce l'ho ancora in prova. Mi è arrivato ieri. Per ora, posso dire che ha molte difficoltà a leggere (o riconoscere) le compact flash della mia Mark II. La cosa che mi serviva di più. Su due schede collegate, alle volte legge, altre volte ignora del tutto. Ho provato le due compact a lettore inserito su diversi modelli di Mac:- Mac Pro (2010 - MacOS 10.8.5 - Mountain Lion), le CF sono riconosciute. Idem per hard disk da 1 TB Lacie Rugged;- MacBook Pro (2010 - MacOS 13 - High Sierra) entrambe le card non sono affatto riconosciute e capita che faccia capolino l'avviso in cui mi si chiede se io voglia Ignorare / Espellere / Inizializzare la card. L'hard disk è riconosciuto;- Mac Mini ( 2009 - MacOS 10.8.5 - Mountain Lion) una delle card è riconosciuta (Sandisk Extreme 32 GB - 60 Mb/s). L'altra, una Lexar Professional da 32 GB - 400x UDMA, mi da sempre lo stesso errore: Ignorare / Espellere / Inizializzare. Devo estrarla dal lettore, formattarla con la macchina fotografica e re-inserirla nel lettore per vedere che succede. Alcune volte funziona, altre non ne vuole proprio sapere e non è assolutamente riconosciuta.Mi sono fatto una mezza idea: la lettura delle card credo funzioni solo su sistemi operativi precedenti a MacOS 10, visto che all'epoca la tecnologia firewire 800 andava per la maggiore; al contrario, sugli attuali desktop / portatili che montino SO superiori a MaxOS 10, la cosa diventa più ostica.Non per nulla, la firewire 800 non la montano più .Però, per chi come me lavora con una Mark II (e quindi con le CF), la faccenda va bene quando devo importare il materiale sul fisso. Ma quando sono fuori per lavoro, mi vedo costretto a far diversamente: o devo acquistare più compact o devo ri-formattare il mio MacBook Pro e ripristinargli un backup di Time Machine con MacOS 10.8.Certo è che, quando spendi 93 €, vorresti che le cose funzionassero...AGGIORNAMENTO:Ho provato a collegare l'hard disk Lacie Rugged all'hub, a sua volta collegato al Mac Mini, ma non succede nulla. Ho riscontrato problemi di lettura anche con la stessa CF che sino a poco tempo prima veniva letta. Prima funziona, dopo non funziona più.Ho chiesto il rimborso. Una cosa inutile ed inutilmente costosa.

Product arrived quickly and well packaged. Includes power supply, although it is UK plug style wall-wart and not possible to change to european-style. Would be nice if there was a separate power cable...However, I have some plug adapters so it is not a big problem. Tested with FW800 drive connected directly to iMac and MacBook Pro (both recent models) and through the Lindy hub - transfer speeds were identical. Should note that 3-ports include one which is connected to computer, so 2 are available for attached devices. Have not tried with 2 drives attached and running at same time but I would expect 2 drives would be limited by throughput of single connection to Mac. In my experience, unless copying single large files, USB3 does not really offer any advantage over FW800 (except with SSD storage)

C’edt Hub de 3 ports mais vous pouvez mettre seulement 2 connexion car la 3 eme est utilisée pour la contai mac