How many drives can you daisy chain

Nov 29, AM in response to dwb In response to dwb. Question: Q: how many firewire drives can I daisy chain on the mac mini More Less. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: edalexjr edalexjr. Question: Q: Question: Q: how many firewire drives can I daisy chain on the mac mini How many firewire g-drives can I daisy chain on my mac mini.

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Loading page content. User profile for user: lllaass lllaass. Cable length will be 24" to the last connector. I am pretty sure the cable can handle the current draw Unfortunately no way to figure out capacity there.

Heres a picture, as taken off Jonnyguru. I think then you have it pretty well covered. I don't think you are anywhere near the capacity for that wire with all the drives. For reference, all the wires are tin-coated copper. Does not make much sense to me though since the 4 pin peripheral wire can handle 5 maybe All rants I produce are sole property of Suck iiiiiitttttttttt.

Originally Posted by Neuromancer. Thats weird Neuro I have one that came with my D that holds PM me, I can help! A single cable with good wiring, as stated by noxqzs, should be able to power many drives. The backplane in my server can hold up to 20 drives and is run by two cables that I made.

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Stick a few of these in. I was thinking of these —. I know its not going to be the easiest or prettiest of solutions, but I was ideally thinking of speed. If the former, probably quicker to destroy the platters with a hammer.

Unplug adapter from laptop; connect to drive; connect to laptop; format; disconnect from laptop; change drive; rinse and repeat. If these are 3. It may well be cheaper than having someone on minimum wage doing hundreds of batches of plugging in drives and running erase software on them.