Home › Forums › Products › Rackmount › FireWire 1 vs. FireWire2 › Reply To: FireWire 1 vs. FireWire2 April 19, 2011 at 3:38 pm #121973 nickroseModeratorEventide Staff The H8000FW can send 16 channels each way over firewire. These 16 are arranged as 2 groups of 8 for routing purposes, known as FireWire1 and 2.