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FW400 vs FW800 Daisy Chain
My co-worker has an older model macpro and only one FW800 port and two external HDDs. Would it be faster to connect a second External HDD through daisy chaining FW800 or to connect the second drive into the FW400 port?
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[Christopher Targia] “Would it be faster to connect a second External HDD through daisy chaining FW800 or to connect the second drive into the FW400 port? “
Both fw400 and 800 share the same bus. I’d stick with the fw800 daisy chain as the fw400 port is half the speed.
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Great thanks, does anyone know the speed of FW800 daisy chain? compared to direct FW800?
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MacPro Octo Core Intel Xenon 2.8Ghz 6GB DDR2 Ram
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[Christopher Targia] “Great thanks, does anyone know the speed of FW800 daisy chain? compared to direct FW800? “
What do you mean? It runs at fw800 speed (potentially 800mb/sec).
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even through daisy chaining? wouldn’t running two drives through the same port slow them both down?
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MacPro Octo Core Intel Xenon 2.8Ghz 6GB DDR2 Ram
FCP 7.0.2
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[Christopher Targia] “wouldn’t running two drives through the same port slow them both down? “
A little, but not more than using a fw400 connection.
You can easily test this by running the AJA System Test which is downloadable for free from AJA.com
Jeremy
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