This black, FireWire 400 4-Pin to 4-Point Cable from Pearstone allows you to connect a variety of FireWire devices, transmitting data at speeds up to 400Mb/s. It provides high speed digital transmission of data, video and audio between computers and consumer devices such as scanners, printers, DV camcorders, external hard drives and more.

Meets/Exceeds all IEEE 1394a Standards    400 Mbps Transfer Rate

25' (7.6 m) cable length

Meets or Exceeds all 1394a Standards

Made of pure oxygen-free copper

100% shielded coverage

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. What is the maximum capacity disk size per drive?

A: Current qualified drives are 12TB disks (5x 12TB).

Q: 2. In JBOD mode, are the drives hot-swappable? Can I eject one drive without ejecting or disturbing the others?

A: Yes in JBOD mode you can eject and replace a drive without disturbing the other drives.

Q: 3. Can 5 (WD Red) 6TB be used fully successfully, or is it limited to 4th drives?

A: From the manufacturer website, there is no mention of a limit on the site, nor in the manual. They sell a 40TB version which would use 8TB drives, and a 30TB version which would use 6TB drives. So, it would make sense that WD Red 6TB drives would be find. I have submitted the question to the manufacturer.

Q: 4. Will JBOD work over FireWire 800?

A: Yes, the Oyen Digital Mobius 5-Bay FireWire 800/eSATA/USB 3.0 RAID Enclosure can be used in JBOD over FireWire 800.

Q: 5. Does this enclosure spin the drives down when the Mac goes to sleep?

A: Yes, it does spin down and all the way off, powers up on waking. But SoftRaid recommends not letting the Mac go to sleep to avoid corrupting the RAID volume.

Q: 6. The hard drive in my mid-2011 iMac is dead and I would prefer not cracking it open. Could I use this with a SSD and boot up from that, and use a HD in the other Bay for storage? There is no USB 3 port on the iMac so I am restricted to using firewire 800. I have heard conflicting reports as to whether that would be sufficient in order to use this with a bootable SSD. Thanks!

A: I have a 2011 iMac and the hdd died in it too. The internal sata cable that connects your hdd is about 6x faster than FireWire 800, which would probably make fw800 a nightmare for you to run off. Opening the iMac isn't as hard as it seems, just get the right tools, a clean table and check out some YouTube tutorials. Also make sure you get a new sata cable with the thermal sensor in it, otherwise your fans will run full speed all the time (I believe)..I also have the mobius and it's awesome for back up options.

Q: 7. Is it possible to install two 8TB drives in RAID 0 on this unit ? What's the max storage capacity on RAID 0 ? Thanks a lot in advance. Roberto.

A: I just installed 2 8tb seagate enterprise drives 2 days ago in a raid 1 setup. Only issue was connecting through USB instead of FireWire to get the drives into that configuration. Company walked me through it. They have great support. This is my second raid setup after buying the empty units. Very pleased.

Q: 8. Is port multiplier required on USB 3 port for this to work?

A: No, the Oyen Digital Mobius 5-Bay FireWire 800/eSATA/USB 3.0 RAID Enclosure BH #OY3R5EB3M does not require a port multiplier, it will work as it should with a single USB 3.0 port.

Q: 9. Otra is posible to buy an A.C. Adaptor extra?

A: Nosotros no vendmos el AC adapter para este articulo.

Q: 10. If 1 drive of a raid 5 fails, and replace the bad drive with a new drive- will this mobius rebuild the raid automatically- or is there software involved?

A: Yes it will rebuild itself although it takes awhiledepending on the size of the raid. Mine is 20TB and took nearly 2 days to rebuild.