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Cheap 6 Foot 4pin 6pin IEEE1394 Firewire Cables - NOGoddess - 01-03-2007
Pick up a couple of spares... $0.84 a cable, limit of two.
Over here: http://www.firefold.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=PRICEMELT
Re: Cheap 6 Foot 4pin 6pin IEEE1394 Firewire Cables - Racer X - 01-03-2007
$2 each, free shipping, no limit.
their PCMS (house brand) cable are decent quality, and are frequently free shipping.
Re: Cheap 6 Foot 4pin 6pin IEEE1394 Firewire Cables - NOGoddess - 01-03-2007
Good to know about, thanks. Only paid $2.26 for shipping at the other place for a total of $3.94 so at least this time I didn't come out behind
Re: Cheap 6 Foot 4pin 6pin IEEE1394 Firewire Cables - kahuna1342 - 01-03-2007
The price for the 6ft PC Microstore cables is $4 each. The two dollar cables are only 3 ft long.
Thanks for the tip NOGoddess. Ordered two of them.
Re: Cheap 6 Foot 4pin 6pin IEEE1394 Firewire Cables - Racer X - 01-03-2007
I just move the camera closer to my mac......
Re: Cheap 6 Foot 4pin 6pin IEEE1394 Firewire Cables - MikeF - 01-03-2007
I looked for some right-angle firewire cables and was amazed at how expensive they were ($20-25 for 3')... Anyone know of a cheap source?
Re: Cheap 6 Foot 4pin 6pin IEEE1394 Firewire Cables - Racer X - 01-03-2007
I have never seen a cheap one. short with right angles for stacked drives?
Re: Cheap 6 Foot 4pin 6pin IEEE1394 Firewire Cables - x-uri - 01-04-2007
My experience with cheap cables is that you get what you pay for. I've had three failures with no-name firewire cables that weren't doing anything but connecting drives to my Mac. One actually failed inside my G3 Macenstein, when I decided to use the internal plug on my FW USB PCI card to connect to a FW bridgeboard on a drive inside the G3 case.
OTOH, I have a pair of Granite Digital cables that have seen 6+ years of hard service -- getting around, coiled and uncoiled, plugged and unplugged, with barely a dropped frame.
IMHO, YMMV, and all that.