Cheap 6 Foot 4pin 6pin IEEE1394 Firewire Cables

[NOGoddess]

Pick up a couple of spares... $0.84 a cable, limit of two.

Over here: http://www.firefold.com/ProductInfo.aspx...=PRICEMELT

[Racer X]

$2 each, free shipping, no limit.



their PCMS (house brand) cable are decent quality, and are frequently free shipping.

[NOGoddess]

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

[kahuna1342]

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.

[Racer X]

I just move the camera closer to my mac......

[MikeF]

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?

[Racer X]

I have never seen a cheap one. short with right angles for stacked drives?

[x-uri]

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.