Belkin F5U501-APL Internal FireWire PCI Card for PC

by Belkin

Product Details

Product Manual [1.30mb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009WPOM
• Item model number: F5U501-APL
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #75 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Computer Components > I/O Port Cards > FireWire Port Cards
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 30, 2003

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Belkin FireWire 3-Port PCI Card brings the revolutionary speed of FireWire to your desktop computer, quickly and easily. The best solution for adding FireWire capability to desktop computers, the Card enhances peripheral connections with speed, accuracy, and ease. The Belkin FireWire 3-Port PCI Card maximizes your use of ultrafast disk, Zip, and optical drives, scanners, printers, i-Pod, and other peripherals.

Advantages

• Ultrafast data transfer rates of up to 400 Mbps, ideal for transmitting large multimedia files
• Instant connection for FireWire devices such as digital camcorders, hard drives, i-Pod, CD-RWs, and others-with support for a total of up to 62
• Easy Plug-and-Play setup-connect FireWire devices without restarting your computer
• Three additional FireWire ports installed directly onto your PC or Mac® computer
• Includes a 6 foot 6-pin to 4-pin FireWire cable

Product Description

The Belkin FireWire 3-Port PCI Card brings the revolutionary speed of FireWire to your desktop computer, quickly and easily. The best solution for adding FireWire capability to desktop computers, the Card enhances peripheral connections with speed, accuracy, and ease. The Belkin FireWire 3-Port PCI Card maximizes your use of ultrafast disk, Zip, and optical drives, scanners, printers, i-Pod, and other peripherals.

System Requirements:

• Windows 98 SE, 2000, Me, XP.
• Mac 8.6 and higher.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to install in Windows XP, March 3, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Belkin F5U501-APL Internal FireWire PCI Card for PC (Personal Computers)

I recieved the card yesterday. Today I got up early and installed the card in 10 minutes. As soon as I turned the computer on, Windows XP recognized the card and the digital camcorder it was attached to it. The transfer of video was smooth an easy just using Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2. I still have to get and install a more powerfull video production software, but I believe it will work great.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Effortless installation, November 28, 2004

By 

Rob S. (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Belkin F5U501-APL Internal FireWire PCI Card for PC (Personal Computers)

My Dell is getting a bit old, 5 yrs, 700 mhz, and I wondered how well a firewire card & ipod software would install, and would ipod transfers work well with this computer. I had upgraded from win 98 to win 2000 pro ~ 4 years ago, and love windows 2000's stability.

This belkin card went in EFFORTLESSLY! No software, no menus, nothing. Put card in, restart computer, and it WORKS PERFECTLY with nothing else to do. (The apple ipod software was a breeze also, and very robust, but did have to install web software updates from Apple).

I've had my 20GB 4G ipod about a week, and it is doing fantastic with this older computer!! I've filled 8gb so far, moving my musicmatch library, etc. and the longest sync. was maybe 5-8 minutes for 5gb?, and I suspect the firewire is not the bottleneck.

Thanks Belkin!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No Hassle Firewire, August 11, 2005

By 

John E. Norris - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Belkin F5U501-APL Internal FireWire PCI Card for PC (Personal Computers)

Just open up your computer, plug it in an empty slot, close the computer back up, and you're done. XP finds it and loads the driver when you boot up. Then just use it. Works great!