mac Mini FireWire Question

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I have a nice 16X external FireWire DVD burner that I do not want to get rid of and a nice FireWire 400 GB hard drive that houses all of my music. Would it be a bad idea to daisychain both the drive and the DVD-R drive to one FireWire port? I would hate for my hard drive to just stop. Any advice would be great....



[EDIT] Ha! Noticed I named the thread backwards.....should have been Mac mini not mac Mini

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    gene cleangene clean Posts: 3,481member
    How about a FireWire hub?
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    jaredjared Posts: 639member
    I thought about that but would a hub be able to handle both?
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  • Reply 3 of 7
    gene cleangene clean Posts: 3,481member
    Sure, why not. I have a USB hub right here, and it handles my iPod, Sony 16X Dual Layer DVD/RW, HP All-In-One printer, and my mouse. It handles them just fine.



    I'm sure a FireWire hub would handle them too.
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  • Reply 4 of 7
    Daisy-chaining will be just fine. FireWire handles bandwidth allocation very well, so since you are on a single FireWire connection in any case there is nothing a FireWire switch (there is technically no such thing as a hub for either FireWire or USB) could do anyways.



    Switches/hubs are very, very, rarely a good idea on FireWire, that is because of the fundamental differences with USB.
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  • Reply 5 of 7
    sunilramansunilraman Posts: 8,133member
    Go the daisy chaining. Firewire is designed for that



    F8ck this hub shite, that's for USB
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  • Reply 6 of 7
    I just got a Mac Mini yesterday, and started editing some Movies that I did on my older iMac. I had to daisy chain the external drive and the the camera. works just great. So shouldn't be a problem.



    BTW, I really quite surprised how well this little guy works with just 256MB or RAM. It only really got sluggish while rendering parts of a movie. All my apps seem to run just fine. Web browsing is still way too slow. And that's in Safari and FireFox.



    -Scott
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  • Reply 7 of 7
    sunilramansunilraman Posts: 8,133member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by scott_r

    I just got a Mac Mini yesterday, and started editing some Movies that I did on my older iMac. I had to daisy chain the external drive and the the camera. works just great. So shouldn't be a problem.



    BTW, I really quite surprised how well this little guy works with just 256MB or RAM. It only really got sluggish while rendering parts of a movie. All my apps seem to run just fine. Web browsing is still way too slow. And that's in Safari and FireFox.



    -Scott




    sweet FireWire is da bomb y'all..!!



    yeah i use Safari in Tab mode instead of FireFox, just because it is quicker on 256mb systems. Safari has one niggling issue 'the dirty rectangle', eg, get's KILLED when showing all the animated smiley faces on AppleInsider reply page
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