Is it advised "Daisy Chain" my two LaCie external hard drives
Is it recommended to Daisy Chain my two LaCie external hard drives to my iMac?
Is there any "real" advantage to doing this?
If it is advised; how do I connect?
I am running an iMac OS X Version 10.9.4
Processor 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 12 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Hard Discs LaCie d2 Quadra 2TB FireWire 800
FireWire 400
eSata
USB 2.0
and LaCie d2 Quadra 3TB USB3
eSata
2x FireWire 800
USB 2.0
The only advantage is to free up a port on the compute.
In your case the two drives only have Firewire 800 and eSATA in common. You don't have an eSATA port on your iMac so you could only daisy-chain via Firewire. If you did that then the drive that supports USB3 would run at a slower speed. The way you have it set up now one of them is able to operate at the very fast USB 3.0 speed. On the other hand if neither of these drives needs to run particularly fast then if you daisy-chain them via Firewire 800 that would free up the USB 3.0 port should you need it.
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