Why does my MyBook Studio 1 have two firewire 800 ports?

Hi, I have a WD MyBook Studio edition (version 1) that I use as a backup for my iMac (Early 2008). I'm planning to upgrade my iMac's internal drive to 1 or 2 TBs and I want to know if I can add another MyBook onto the one I currently have via its second firewire port. I'm not sure if that's why there are 2 ports, but that's why you guys are here, right? Thanks in advance and if you know any good internal drives send a link my way ;)!

Hi funman895: Yes indeed the Firewire drives can be daisy-chained. So you can add another MyBook to the second FW port on your drive.
Hope this helps
Stedman

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