PCI Express is the next revolution in I/O interconnect standards that will deliver the bandwidth and features required by PCs, consumer electronics and communications devices. The architecture is a cost-effective, low-pin count, and point-to-point technology offering maximum bandwidth, reducing cost and design complexity and enabling smaller form factors. This card is the best solution for IEEE 1394b/a FireWire PCI Express and the interface has a potential transfer rate of 2.5 Gbps using a single-lane (or x1) PCI Express link.

FWB3414 provides the high performance serial I/O standard of FireWire 800 technology. The FireWire 800 implementation of the IEEE 1394b standard supports transfer speeds of up to 800 Mbps and device distances can now be up to 100 metres. IEEE 1394b PCI Express host card is particularly good for use with FireWire 800 multimedia peripherals and fully backward compatible with IEEE 1394a FireWire 400 devices, such as digital video (DV) camcorders and external HDD enclosures.

• Supports PCI Express Base Specification Revision 1.1.
• Single-lane ( x1) PCI Express throughput rates up to 2.5 Gbps.
• Compliant with 1394 Open Host Controller Interface Ver1.1.
• Supports data transfer rates of 100, 200, 400 and 800Mbps.
• Provides 3 external and 1 sharing internal FireWire ports.
• Built-in 4-pin power connector for receiving extra power supply from the system.
• Fully compliant with IEEE 1394b and backwards supports 1394a-2000 as well as 1394-1995 standards.
• Hot-swapping feature allows you to connect/disconnect devices without powering down the system.
• Works with various types of Firewire devices including DV camcorders, hard disk drives, removable drives, CD-RWs, DVD-ROMs and other Firewire audio/video devices.
• Supports Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, 7, Linux and MAC G5 operating systems