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How many Drive can I Daisy chain?
Hi,
Does anyone know how many external firewire drives I can safely chain together? I have 8 right now, but could easily double..
Thanks
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I’d start looking at alternative solutions now if I were you. YOu can get 8 bay SATA RAIDS that are much faster than FW, and more reliable.
Shane
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I believe the limit is 16. After that you could buy another firewire PCI card and more there.
That being said, I agree with Shane. You should probably be looking in eSATA units with an eSATA card to connect to it.
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It’s just not sensible to add more devices to the same bus – at a certain point you will just slow down access to the drives. Invest in something safer (RAID 5 or similar) and cheaper (without multiple enclosures) like an eSata array. I use 2 G-Tech G-Speed ES as one 8 drive RAID 5 array. 4 TB, and fast enough for uncompressed 2K…
Ben
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