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#1 2008-02-04 8:50 pm
- daniel_w
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Daisy-chaining Firewire Drives?
Hi all,
I'm looking at getting a couple of external hard drives but need some advice.
Lacie do a USB2 drive that I like the look of because it's fanless (~zero noise). Thing is that if I have two then they're taking up ports.
The silver porche drives they do have fans, however they at least are firewire which I do know that you can 'daisy chain' to each other.
Does anyone have any experience with this or know if the drives are connected in this way, will my mac still see them as two separate drives / one big drive / or will they only operate in some RAID kind of fashion.
Ideally I would like to have the mac still see them as separate, but connect them in a daisy chain fashion. Or am I best just sticking with the USB2 option?
Any advice anyone? - THANKS 
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#2 2008-02-04 8:58 pm
- mrreet2001
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Re: Daisy-chaining Firewire Drives?
"two separate drives"
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#4 2008-02-04 11:17 pm
- daniel_w
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Re: Daisy-chaining Firewire Drives?
Sweet - thanks people.
BTW, anyone have a personal preference or experience with those lacie porche drives? Noisy/quiet? Reliable/or not?
I've noticed they only have a 2yr warranty compared to some Western Digital drives which seem to have 5yr - wonder if they're as reliable?
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#5 2008-02-05 1:24 am
- jb
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Re: Daisy-chaining Firewire Drives?
I have a 250GB LaCie Porsche drive. It's currently attached via firewire 400.
At first I had a DOA drive but it turns out it was my logic board. Once I got the logic board replaced, I have no complaints, other than when I'm not using the grounded power adapater on my macbook pro, I really notice the electrical charge on the case, and the power brick for the LaCie drive isn't grounded.
But other than that relatively small stuff, it's performed well, I'd say.
I've had this drive for roughly 9 months.
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#6 2008-02-05 9:05 am
Re: Daisy-chaining Firewire Drives?
daniel_w wrote:
BTW, anyone have a personal preference or experience with those lacie porche drives? Noisy/quiet? Reliable/or not?
The old ones wheren't so reliable as they didn't have a fan (tight plastic without ventilation) but the new ones should be better as they have a fan. However, the fan blows as long as the drive is switched on, that is also when the computer sleeps (or even disconnected)
If you want to go for an affordable LaCie (which I wouldn't as in general I've heard lots of bad stories about them) you could maybe check out their new black alu boxes, they're also cheap, and are probably better on the temperature than the porche ones. Else same shape except for big embossed logo on top.
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