Using 2 ext. drives with a MacBook?

I want to upgrade from LE8 to Logic Studio. My MacBook's hard drive, though, has
only 37G of free space. Looking at Apple's system requirements, I get the feeling I may need additional hard drive space for the exs samples and other content. Even though I'll only be installing Logic (and not Main Stage, etc) it also seems prudent not to ask the MacBook's internal HD to run both the application as well as the samples.
The MacBook has only a single Firewire port. I currently have an external hard
drive connected there to record my audio files to. Can I load the exs samples onto a second external drive and plug that into the available port on the separate drive I currently
use?
Put more briefly: Can I daisy chain firewire drives, using one for recording and
one for exs
sample storage?
Jim

The solution you suggested is perfectly reasonable, however if you are running a large number of audio files and EXS files you may run into bandwidth issues.
You could always get a larger firewire drive and use the other one to archive stuff, but to be honest i think you would be perfectly fine using a USB 2 drive to stream + record audio. Are you using a firewire or USB audio interface?

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