Product Description

The LaCie 130822 FireWire 400 and 800 USB 2.0 PCI Card Design by Sismo is plug and play so just plug it in and it¿s ready to work for you. Once your device is connected, your computer recognizes the device and automatically configures the necessary software. It¿s driver-free for Mac OS X 10.3 or higher and Windows 2000, XP or Vista. One standardized port and plug combination makes it simple and quick to connect and use. It¿s PCI 2.3 compliant, has a built-in hardware bus master engine, and offers 3.3V and 5V support and add three USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port and one FireWire 400 port to your computer. Made for users who want to upgrade their Mac or PC desktop computer to all three interfaces. The unique, exclusive new design by Sismo comes with a dedicated gripping pad for electrostatic discharge protection and is compatible with a PCI slot. The USB interface is hot-swappable and cross-platform, meaning you can use your USB peripherals on both Mac and Windows computers easily. Hi-Speed USB 2.0 provides the necessary fast data transfer rates that many of today¿s external devices require. This card is conveniently backward compatible with USB 1.1 devices as well for maximum connectivity (at USB 1.1 performance). The FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 interfaces are cross-platform, meaning you can use your FireWire peripherals on both Mac and Windows platforms, such as fast external hard drives, camcorders, and more. FireWire 800 boasts a maximum interface transfer rate of up to 800Mbits/s, making it ideal for speed demanding projects, like audio/video editing and regularly saving large files quickly. Conveniently, there¿s no need to shut down or restart your computer when adding or removing a FireWire device because they¿re hot-swappable.

Product Details

• Brand: LaCie
• Model: 130822
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .35 pounds
• Networking: PCI

Features

• 1 FireWire 800, 1 FireWire 400, and 3 USB 2.0 ports
• Dedicated gripping pad for electrostatic discharge protection
• Driver-free for Mac and Windows
• FireWire 800 max interface transfer rate up to 800Mbits/s
• USB 2.0 max interface transfer rate up to 480Mbits/s

Customer Reviews

Works
Installed it in my PowerMac Quicksilver G4 Dual 1GHz. First thing I noticed is that it is the first PCI card I've ever installed into this Mac that actually fit exactly (!). Usually (in fact, always until now) after plugging in the card, when tightening down the screw, the card lifts up a bit from the rear. Not htis one. Plugged it in and the screw-plate interfaced directly with the Mac's mounting hole. Amazing! I had actually decided (I've owned this Mac for many years) that cards were supposed to not fit exactly...
Anyway, in it went, and it works perfectly.

HORRIBLE
ordered two of these cards. both were junk.

first one came from amazon and i installed it into my computer running vista ultimate 64. the computer blue screened and crashed before even getting into windows. took it out sent it back to amazon and computer was fine.

second one came in from amazon, i could boot up into my computer and the card worked fine but it slowed my computer down to a crawl and sometimes it couldnt even detect its harddrive to boot! i thought my harddrive was trying to give up its ghost!

lacie is a reputable company. but this particular product is bullocks. maybe youll have better luck. koodles to amazon for having an awesome return policy though! this card gets the fewest stars possible for wasting my time twice.

Great Design
Card does what I expected, fits great on my XFX 8200 motherboard, replaced a cheaper version SYBA because when I went cheap, the connectors would wiggle the slightest bit and the connection would be broke, not the case here... this is all thumbs up! Works well in Windows 7 Beta