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    Daisy Chaining Two G Speed Drives

    Posted by Jim Zito on June 13, 2013 at 2:59 am

    Hello,

    I have a G Speed 12TB drive and am looking to get another one to increase my space. I do video editing and animation. I was wondering what the best way to daisy chain the two drives is. I’m assuming you can’t do it using eSata connections. I have two eSata ports in my Mac Pro. Can I just connect both drives at once? I do not have Thunderbolt, so that is out. I also read that connecting the second drive to the first one with FW800 works. Is that fast/reliable?

    Thanks,
    Jim

    Jim Zito replied 12 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Alex Gerulaitis

    June 13, 2013 at 6:39 am

    Which G-Speed: eS or Q?

    eS: connecting the 2nd eS to another eSATA port on the same controller the 1st is connected to, will work.

    Q: any eSATA port will work. Daisy-chaining eSATA-to-FireWire – doesn’t. FireWire-to-FireWire – does.

    HTH.

  • Jim Zito

    June 13, 2013 at 10:23 am

    Thanks for your response. It’s Q. So I can connect both to my Mac via eSata and won’t have any performance problems?

    Thanks,
    Jim

  • Alex Gerulaitis

    June 13, 2013 at 8:45 pm

    [Jim Zito] “So I can connect both to my Mac via eSata and won’t have any performance problems?”

    You shouldn’t – but the usual disclaimers apply – “provided your system has adequate resources and doesn’t have bottlenecks yada yada blah blah…”

  • Jim Zito

    June 14, 2013 at 4:29 pm

    Thanks!

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