The cable is a male-to-male FireWire 800 cable, designed for connecting two devices that take advantage of this high-bandwidth interface. This Firewire 9-PIN to 9-PIN cable is most commonly used to download data from a digital video camera to an editing machine, or to attach an external hard drive to a host computer. FireWire 800 runs at double the bandwidth of its predecessor, the powerful IEEE-1394 FireWire (or i.Link) interface. Important: 1)IEEE 1394 cable comes with 4PIN/6PIN and 9PIN, pls kindly check the port of your host and target devices. 2)The cable listed is a Firewire 800 1394B 9-pin to 9-pin plug cable. 3)The firewie 800 cable comes with various kinds of molding and shell.We will send it randomly. 4)We promise all cables comes with copper conductor,foiling.