The Hosa FireWire Cable is a 6 pin cable. FireWire has gained popularity due to its extremely high data transfer rate—rivaling that of SCSI. This Hosa FireWire cable can support up to 63 devices at 200-400Mbps over a length of 4.5 meters (15 ft.) and is hot swappable. You can think of it as the bigger, more powerful brother to USB.