I have a couple of external firewire drives and I notice they both have 2 firewire ports. <br><br>Can these be connected together so that data on one drive can be copied to the other? In other words, if I connected them together would I see both drives mount on my computer?<br><br>Old farts, the hidden caulk of civilization. Jim Atkinson<br>
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Thanks.<br><br>I picked up a second drive today and just noticed the ports while I was transferring files. Daisy chaining them should be faster.<br><br>Old farts, the hidden caulk of civilization. Jim Atkinson<br>
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Not sure if daisy-chaining them would make them faster. I thought I read someplace that it actually isn't faster. It's more for convenience of having them all hooked up.<br><br>
Yes, the speed will not change even though one would think the ones and zeros have less distance to travel. It runs on the same firewire protocol whichever way they are connected. It just allows fewer wires and more drives off one computer firewire jack.<br><br><br><br><br>
According to Macworld.com:<br><br>(If you use external drives, be sure to attach each one to its own FireWire bus; FireWire provides greater bandwidth than USB 2.0 in this situation, and daisy-chained FireWire drives make for slower throughput.)<br><br>
Oh! It takes a Tiger costume? Maybe that's what I need to do to get this #$%&* MacBook to connect to a certain router.<br><br>Old farts, the hidden caulk of civilization. Jim Atkinson<br>
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