Slightly OT: Firewire drives - daisy chain or hub?

[D. D. Brierton]

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 11:42 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:

> Both should work, and should produce the same performance.  All your
> Firewire devices are on the same bus so they will see all the data in
> either case, and there's only one interface on the computer, so the drives
> will have to take turns transferring data.

Right, that makes sense.

> The main advantage to using a powered hub (from my perspective having done
> some Firewire development (on MacOS)) is that when somthing bad happens and
> Firewire destroys the Firewire Interface you're hot-plugging something
> into, it will be either the device or the hub that is destroyed, not the
> computer's motherboard.

Eeek. I hadn't thought anything so dire could happen from simply
transferring data. I think I'll pop out and buy a hub. Do you have any
recommendations?

Thank you Tony.

Best, Darren

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