SIIG FireWire 2-Port PCIe Express Card

Key Features and Benefits

PCI Express 1-lane (x1) FireWire adapter works with PCIe slots with different lane width
Installs in any available PCIe slot and supports data rates up to 400Mbps
Standard height and low profile brackets are included to work in different chassis form factors

Works with FireWire 1394a devices including DV camcorder, CD-RW/DVD-ROM, portable hard disk, digital camera, and other audio/video devices

Works with Sony, Panasonic, Cannon, Sharp, JVC and many other DV camcorders for digital video creating/editing

Lifetime Manufacturers Warranty

Detailed Specs

Regulatory approval(s): FCC Class B (DoC) & CE
Chipset: Texas Instruments
Bus type: PCI Express x1
Port type: Two 6-pin external FireWire (1394a)
Compliant with PCI Express Base Specification Revision 1.0a
Compliant with IEEE 1394-1995, 1394a-2000 and OHCI 1.1 standards
Hot-swapping feature allows you to connect/disconnect devices without powering down the system
Supports serial bus data transfer rates of 100, 200 and 400Mb/sec and supports up to 63 devices
Onboard power connector to provide reliable power source

System Requirements

Mac
Power Mac G5 PCI Express enabled system with an available PCI Express slot
Mac OS X v10.4 or later

PC
PCI Express enabled system with an available PCI Express slot
Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003

Package Contents

FireWire 2-Port PCIe
Spare enhanced low profile bracket
"Y" split power cable
Quick installation guide

PCIe is also known as (PCI-Express).

PCI Express slots are not compatible with PCI or PCI-X expansion cards.

Is there a difference between PCI-X and PCI-Express? Yes. Are the compatible with each other? No

How do I know if what slot I have? and what is the difference?

PCI -- Also called "Conventional PCI". This is 32 and 64 bit PCI that you've come to know and love. The PCI spec has been undergoing a significant set of changes over the years to try to keep pace with speed and system advances. One thing you probably haven't noticed is a change from 5V signalling to 3.3V. The spec to which vendors are implementing now is PCI V2.2; There are a PCI V2.3 and PCI V3.0 already defined.

PCI-X -- The PCI SIG likes to call this "High performance, backward compatible PCI for the future" which just means that the PCI SIG is not lacking marketing people. PCI-X uses all the same connectors and stuff as "conventional" PCI. The transfer speed is indicated by the goofy moniker added to the end, as in "PCI-X 66" (which supports a 66MHZ clock rate) or "PCI-X 133" (which supports a 133Mhz clock rate). Because the data is transfered in parallel, either 32 or 64 bits at a time (or even 16 bits at a time, don't ask), this means that PCI-X 133 offers a bandwidth of 1.0GB/second, and PCI-X 533 could offer a bandwidth of 4.3GB/second.

PCI Express -- This is an entirely new bus architecture, previously known by the name "3GIO." It's got new connectors and everything. It even defines a new PC Card (PCMCIA) standard called Express Card. How different is PCI Express from stuff that came befoer it? Well, for one thing, it performs serial data transfers and it starts with a base transfer rate of 2.5Gb/second. Data is transfered in packets, and effectively routed via a switch. Transfers are bi-directional, so data can flow to and from a device simultaneously. Since data is switched, more than 1 device can be transfering at the same time.

What's even more fun about PCI Express is that cards can utilize as many as 16 transfers in parallel, thus providing (are you ready for this??) up to 8GB/second total throughput (4GB/second in each direction). These parallelized serial transfers are what are referred to as "PCI Express x8" (pronounced "by eight", by the way) for 8 parallel bit streams or "PCI Express x16" for 16 parallel bit streams. AGP is being replaced with x16 PCI Express connections.

UPC#: 662774027043, or
662774026695
MPN#: NN-E20112-SI