Orange-Micro Reviews

The item delivered was a four port hub, not a five port hub as advertised. It has the same part number as the item pictured, but is a different item. I will return it.

I am a recording engineer using firewire with high speed powerful hard drives that transfer huge amounts of data at a time,IEEE 1394 firewire technology is the ultimate and provides me with powerful capabilities using external drives.

there are no Mac OS X drivers for this card, either included with it or available on the companies website. it is supposed to "just work", which it does. however, installing the card prohibits the computer from being able to go to "deep sleep", meaning that you're fan will be on no matter what you do -- short of turning the machine off. credit to their tech support for responding to my question about this issue promptly, but their response was not what I wanted to hear: "Our card may not allow your computer to Deep Sleep properly. We are looking into the cause of this issue and when we find the cause of the problem, we will fix it (if it is our problem)." in the meantime, I'll be returning it. I'll try the more expensive Belkin next, to see if it works.

I give this item 1 star because it says it meets all IEEE-1394 specifications but the plug didn't fit into my JVC Camcorder. It might be that JVC wants me to buy their own firewire cable but I think this cable still should have worked.

Works great and is a deal at [price]. The only gripe I have is that it stinks! I could smell the plastic insulation before I even opened the box from Amazon. An unpleasant acrid combination of rubber and some kind of chemical. Repeated washing in hot soapy water (not the end connectors!) and hanging it out in the sunlight for a week has markedly reduced the smell but it's still noticeable. Hopefully time will make this cable's smell as sweet as it's price.

I found similar firewire cables to sell for anywhere [for a range of prices]. This one is the most reasonably priced I've come across. ...the cable works great! It does kind of smell, however. Kind of a processed plastic sort of smell...