Mac mini, thunderbolt and two monitors

Hi all,
I have a late 2012 Mac Mini, and a 27" LED Cinema display. I want to connect two monitors to the mini. I was thinking about buying a 27" Thunderbolt display to connect via the Thunderbolt port, then daisy chaining the LED Cinema (via mini-DP) to the Thunderbolt display. Will this work?
Any other suggestions would be welcomed as well.
Thanks.
John

Does your comment mean that you use the Thunderbolt disk drive inbetween LED cinema display and the Thunderbolt display ie. you plug the MDP cable coming out of the LED display into the TB drive, and then use the other TB port on the drive to plug into the Thunderbolt display?? I assume then into the computers TB port..?
Yes.
A couple of things if I'm getting this right...does this mean the drive is useless as a drive and is rather just acting as a hub?? I'm assuming this because there are no ports left on the drive to actually plug it into the computer
The drive will work. It gets its data connection to the computer through the Thunderbolt display's connection.
2nd I've heard that a thunderbolt port can only support 1 MDP device in it's chain, and it is has to be last in the chain before connection?? Does this not cause a problem? Having said that I have my 24" LED apple display connected through a TB drive and it is the drive that connects last and works fine (after I updated the displays frimware to stop the flicker it caused).
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