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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1541182"><p>Your setup is fine. The function of the ports is as you have labelled them and any device supporting the protocol of the port can be attached to the port. No, you don't have ThunderBolt on that iMac so getting a ThunderBolt EHD is not a good solution. For you, the fastest EHD you can get would be a FW800 drive. If you get one with two FW800 ports for daisy chaining devices, you could attach your Sony camcorder to the EHD and the EHD to the Firewire 800 port on the iMac. That gives you the fastest data transfer speeds so that big movie files load and save more quickly. The LaCie EHD may have a daisy chain port, so if you wanted to go that way, you could get a FW400 EHD and daisy chain it with the LaCie. Not as fast as the FW800 port, but still pretty quick. </p><p></p><p>And last, you could get a USB2 EHD and use any of the the open ports for that, but that's the slowest speed for file read and write. I personally found USB drives to be somewhat problematic. My personal experience is that USB drives tended to unmount on their own, but it may have been my EHDs as I haven't seen rants on any websites about it happening.</p><p></p><p>BTW, you might want ot look at the speed of the Sony Camcorder dock. If it's not capable of FW800 speeds, you are "wasting" that high speed port by connecting a slow device to it. If the LaCie has daisy chain and if the Sony is FW400, you can move the dock to the LaCie and free up the FW800 for your new EHD.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1541182"] Your setup is fine. The function of the ports is as you have labelled them and any device supporting the protocol of the port can be attached to the port. No, you don't have ThunderBolt on that iMac so getting a ThunderBolt EHD is not a good solution. For you, the fastest EHD you can get would be a FW800 drive. If you get one with two FW800 ports for daisy chaining devices, you could attach your Sony camcorder to the EHD and the EHD to the Firewire 800 port on the iMac. That gives you the fastest data transfer speeds so that big movie files load and save more quickly. The LaCie EHD may have a daisy chain port, so if you wanted to go that way, you could get a FW400 EHD and daisy chain it with the LaCie. Not as fast as the FW800 port, but still pretty quick. And last, you could get a USB2 EHD and use any of the the open ports for that, but that's the slowest speed for file read and write. I personally found USB drives to be somewhat problematic. My personal experience is that USB drives tended to unmount on their own, but it may have been my EHDs as I haven't seen rants on any websites about it happening. BTW, you might want ot look at the speed of the Sony Camcorder dock. If it's not capable of FW800 speeds, you are "wasting" that high speed port by connecting a slow device to it. If the LaCie has daisy chain and if the Sony is FW400, you can move the dock to the LaCie and free up the FW800 for your new EHD. [/QUOTE]
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