Review on 6 Feet Pasow FireWire Cable - 9 Pin to 4 Pin IEEE 1394 Firewire 800/400 by Dwight Tim

As a collector of Macs that Apple considers "old fashioned" or "obsolete", I can say that this very inexpensive cable made my PowerBook G4 easier to maintain 27 -Inch iMac, both the main reason I bought the cable. The second reason - a used LaCie D2 Quadra case with lots of ports, including FireWire 800 - came to mind a few days after I had already ordered the cable. After taking the cable out of the box and connecting it to the aforementioned computers and hard drive, the drive responded almost immediately. Copying 14GB of data took 5 to 10 minutes, while it took 15 to 20 minutes with FireWire 400 and over an hour with USB. With the activatable Target Disk Mode. By holding down "T" while turning on my Mac, I can quickly and easily back up my PowerBook or transfer data without opening the PowerBook lid and damaging anything. All in all a very good cheap cable. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who needs a FireWire 800 cable but doesn't already have one or needs a replacement.