Daisy-chaining MOTU Traveler and a FW hard drive

[mr_nabo]

Hi,

My MBP is starting to get very stressed out and slowing down to pitiful performance speeds which I believe is due to having too much loaded on my HD (17gigs left on a 100gig drive and I've been told leaving half your hd free is best).

So, I want to maintain my portability by buying an external FW HD to stream my samples from (this one maybe: http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/119381) as I've been told USB 2 is pants for audio. If I'm wrong about that, please let me know as I will otherwise go with a Freecom 28146 160gig.

So, my question is: am I going to have lots of trouble if I daisy-chain my Traveler with an external portable (meaning bus-powered) hard drive? Has anyone done it?

Any advice hugely appreciated

[mshelsy]

I run my traveler and external HD off of my FW400 bus. I use power adapters for both.

I have to re-enable record channels in Logic if I start and stop and start recording. I assume this has something to do with the project file path via the firewire bus.

I can record enable tracks, start and stop and start again with no problems on my internal HD.

Hope this helps

[mr_nabo]

Thanks for getting back to me.

I think I'll have to risk it and get an externally-powered FW HD that I'll daisy-chain with my soundcard. Otherwise, I'll invest in a firewire expresscard to get the extra ports.

Cheers

[mshelsy]

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