Daisy-Chaining Firewire drives question

[reebzor]

I have a real quick question about daisy chaining some firewire drives.

I'm looking at buying an OWC Mercury for my macmini. I'm going to connect it via FW800. Can I then daisy chain a FW400 device to the OWC? The drive has 2 FW800 ports but only 1 FW400 so can this be done?

 

[gr8tfly]

Should work fine. With the FW800 at the head of the chain (nearest to the Mac), you'll get full speed. I have a similar setup: 3 FW800's, then two FW400 drives and a FW400 burner. You can also use the FW800 port on the drive for FW400 with a FW800<>Fw400 cable. (17" ubMBP Early 2009)

 

[justit]

Should work fine. With the FW800 at the head of the chain (nearest to the Mac), you'll get full speed. I have a similar setup: 3 FW800's, then two FW400 drives and a FW400 burner. You can also use the FW800 port on the drive for FW400 with a FW800<>Fw400 cable. (17" ubMBP Early 2009)

Do you have a lot of combined fan noise?

 

[mscriv]

Do you have a lot of combined fan noise?

Don't worry Sparky, daddy will turn off the computer in a minute.

 

[gr8tfly]

Do you have a lot of combined fan noise?

They're all fanless cases. (I hate fan noise...)

1 FreeAgent Desk Mac (FW800, 1TB),
2 fanless 3rd party FW800 cases (a 1TB and a 750GB),
2 FreeAgent Pro (FW400, 750GB)