Best way to have an iMac second monitor and Thunderbolt daisy chain?

I'm getting new iMacs for my school lab & wish to daisy chain with Thunderbolt cables into pods of 6 for backing up. I also want to run a second monitor with each iMac. What is the best way to do this since both Thunderbolt ports will be used? USB 3.0 to HDMI?

Canadian Tech Teacher wrote:
By "pods" I had meant creating little LAN's of 6 computers connected to a Thunderbolt drive but I've been doing a lot of reading and now I'm wondering about whether that can actually be done?
The only Mac to Mac connections that Thunderbolt supports that I know of are target disk mode & target display mode, neither of which supports a daisy chain topology or is suitable for a multi-host LAN. (Only one Mac can be the host in either of these modes.)
However, if you want to crete six computer LANs for backups, you could use traditional Ethernet or WiFi LANs & (for instance) a large NAS drive array, or Airport Extreme Base Stations with one or more USB drives attached to them. You could also use Time Capsules, but that is more expensive than going with AEBS's & attached drives. Obviously, wired LAN's would be more suitable for multiple "pods" of six Macs, both because of better reliability & elimination of WiFi channel contention that would show down wireless throughput.
Of course, this isn't as fast as a Thunderbolt drive connected directly to a Mac, but the only way I know of to do that is by connecting to one Mac at a time, which probably would negate any backup copying speed advantage.
Thunderbolt drives (& cables) are expensive so their use is really only justified where very high speed data transfers are necessary. If you don't need that, you might consider a simpler solution of one (or for redundancy two) USB 3.0 drives per iMac, since they are relatively cheap & still offer high speed data transfers.

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