firewire hub vs USB2.0
Oct 6th, 2009, 06:02
I have just purchased an iMac and in contrast to my 1 year old model, it only has one firewire port (firewire 800, 9 pin). I am connecting my Apogee Duet to it using a firewire 800 to 400 cable (Duet's port takes only 400 (6 pin).
I am planning to record to an external drive. I have not purchase that as of yet, but know it has to be 7200 rpm. Would I be better off getting a firewire hub and running both the Duet and the external drive off the iMac's firewire port or should I get a USB external drive?? I do know with some USB hubs some components won't run off the hub. Is that also true with firewire? Someone told me that a USB drive would be fine for music recording
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Jim Frank