New imac has only one firewire 800 port?

You can locate Firewire hubs however they are expensive. I have had 3 Firewire 800 external HD's daisy chained together for 3 years that work flawlessly. The drives I have come with 2 FW 800 ports so this is quite easy, there are several top quality external HD's that are similar including:




OWC Mercury Pro line




Lacie Quadra D2 line (this is what i have)



G-Tech G series line



All of these drives have similar specifications and are all high quality products. I think you will find them to be the most recommended on these forums.

BTW your old iMac had 1 Firewire port and 1 Firewire 800 port not 2 firewire ports.

Regards,

Roger

photohead wrote:
Is there a hub or repeater you can use instead of daisy chaining.

i also don't much like daisy chaining. instead, i opted for one of [ these_|http://www.partsdata.de/IEEE1394b_HUB_repeater_Firewire_800_4_ports_IOI__gbIEEE1394-334.html] hubs.

the supplier ships to a number of countries in Europe. if you're located in the US, just google for a similar product.

J GG

Hi photohead

Have a look at > http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75471

A hub is not necessary, but could be handy for easy access as well as mixing storage and audio devices. See > [Firewire 800 hubs and repeters|http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&client=pub-6263300333013957&cof=FOR ID%3A1%3BGL%3A1%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BLC%3A%230000ff%3BVLC%3A%23663399%3BGFNT%3A%230 000ff%3BGIMP%3A%230000ff%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3B&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=fire wire 800+hubs+andrepeters&btnG=Search]

Dennis

As to my old firewire imac, 2006 late model. It has two firewire ports-both 400. Thanks for your info. Perhaps I will just get a Raid drive and make it much simpler. Just don't want to do it until my other drives go bad. Wish Apple had just added another port?

Sorry I assumed you had a 24" you must have either have a 17" or 20". 🙂