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Per could you elaborate? you mean using the second FW in the back of the RME to daisy chain the external FW HD? On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > Firewire can be daisy-chained. Thus no need for a hub. Avoid USB for > audio if possible (USB data transmission capacity flutter with varying > CPU load). > > It's more safe to use extra drives for your project recordings. Best > is two drives, where you copy files to keep them identical. This > serves two causes: you back up your work and you never have to suffer > downtime to defrag the work dirves (given you reformat a drive before > copying all work files to it). > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se > www.perboysen.com > www.looproom.com internet music hub > > > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Louie Angulo > <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Hello people, >> im going to be aupgrading from the dual core 21" imac to the 27" quad >> core for audio recording purposes. >> The thing i need to consider before buying is: >> would it be better to get it with the 2TB HD than the 1TB? >> would you then partition the 2TB in two and put all of your software >> in one and your recordings into the second partition? >> or would you just get a 1TB and get an external HD to store your files? >> which one would you recommend or is faster, firewire or USB? could you >> give me a link to professional reliable ones? >> the Imacs only have one FW800 port in the back where i already have my >> RME FW800 plugged in >> that means i would need a FW hub to plug the external HD,which one >> would you recomend that have combinations of USBs and FW? >> so far ive found this one : >> >> http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=199941 >> >> thanx for your help! >> cheers >> Luis >> >> >> >> -- >> www.luis-angulo.com >> >> > > -- www.luis-angulo.com