Hi Mike It can depend on what you are doing. If its video editing, my recomendation is to do it properly and get an eSata card fitted to your G5 and get the Mercury Pro Qx2 - eSata is the most reliable way to go. The G5 looks on esata as an internaly connected device on the motherboard, wheras firewire devices are treated as external ones. Also there is the temptation to unplug firewire "hot", I know of several folk who have stuffed there motherboards because they hotplugged the firewire plug in backwards ( yes, a firewire card will probibally save this situation as well, you just kill the card which is cheap compared to a motherboard!) My two esata external HDD's have Never faulted, whereas the two FW's have.... Also, if you are sending large files of continious data (ie movie files) to and from drives and DVD writers the firewire highway gets a litte bit crowded with data so I dont like daisychaining either. However there are multipull F/Wire channels in the G5, so the cheapest way to go is to put the system drive in the G5 box,(thats on a sata channel) and the two other HDD's in separate external cases, each one on a differant fw channel - use the Fw800on one and Fw 400 for the other to ensure this , put the external optical drive on the remaining fw socket. However,If you want to do it right first time get the Mercury Elite Qx2 and a eSata card ( depending on model of the G5 - its either PCI, PCI-X or PCI-Express) and pop the drive,s you have in it. (but not the one with the system OS on it - keep that in the G5). The good thing about the Qx2 is that you can expand it as your budget and needs grow. If you are making your living out of it, choosing Enterprise Class HDD's on new purchases is a good idea. HTH Bruce
On Mar 1, 4:34 pm, "Michael G.M." <michaelgm717...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have 3 FireWire 400 Devices that I'm considering daisy chaining: Two > HDs and an optical drive. > Are there any benefits, considerations, boot-ability (on the fw400 > devices) and what-not I don't know about, because I don't know about > daisy chaining other than hooking up a bunch of devices. Pros and > cons, please? > FWIW, I'll probably get another FW drive if I don't get OWC's Mercury > Elite Qx2 4-Bay to make things simpler and easier with HDD drives. For > now, I'm considering daisy chaining. > > TIA!!!, > -Mike -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
