How do I daisy chain via the USB port in the back of the drive? I connected a second My Book World Ed 1TB drive via the USB of the first drive. But it is not recognized. How do I daisy chain successfully? How do I daisy chain via the USB port in the back of the drive? I connected a second My Book World Ed 1TB drive via the USB of the first drive. But it is not recognized. How do I daisy chain... » Read More How do I daisy chain via the USB port in the back of the drive? I connected a second My Book World Ed 1TB drive via the USB of the first drive. But it is not recognized. How do I daisy chain successfully? « Show Less
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Rocco, I wish that I knew the answer. I have the same question, as I'm interested in purchasing two, of the WD World Edition 2TB, to daisychain them through the USB. Maybe, somebody will know soon?
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From my research the My Book World Edition can't be accessed via USB, only via network. Why pay the extra for another NAS anyway only to use it as a USB HDD? You can add a cheaper USB HDD instead.
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You can't add another MyBook World Edition, but you can plug any standard USB external hard drive, including a regular MyBook USB drive, into the USB port on the World Edition and it will show up on your network along with the World Edition as another networked storage device. This expands the storage available through the My Book World Edition wireless connection that can serve all your computers at the same time. It's adding another wireless-connected storage drive. I've been told that using a USB hub plugged into the World Edition to add several external drives won't work, at least not yet.
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You can't daisy chain this product with another My Book. But you can add a standard external hard drive to it.
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Your computer should be able to read more than one external drive at the time. Most likely, the issue seems to be a conflict of IDs assigned to each (ED) when we connect an (ED), then when we connect a 2nd (ED), then the 2nd (ED) is trying to use an ID that has already been assigned to the 1st (ED), therefore, the 2nd (ED) stays "offline" to avoid a conflict with the 1st (ED). The technical term is "The disk is offline because it has a signature collision with another disk that is online" To make the 2nd and 3rd, and 4th (ED) to be online, then you have to go to: - Computer Management - Disk Management - Scroll down so you can see your external drives - You will notice that the 1st (ED) is "Online" - You will notice that the other (EDs) are "Offline" - Right-Click on "Offline" and a shortcut menu will give the option to turn (ED) "Online" - Wait for a few seconds and now that (ED) will become available to be used. I hope these findings will help you guys minimize your frustrations as I had them before I found this solution
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This is the adapter only for a Thunderbolt interface, the drive itself is a separate purchase, you can by various sizes and I believe the standard interface is USB 3.0. You can also daisy chain devices, I use two external drives on my Mac mini, this with a 2tb drive for my ITunes library and portable 1tb Seagate drive for time machine backup.
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I had the same issue. I even attempted to connect this to a "powered" USB port and still had nothing happen. I recently had the opportunity to test a Seagate Backup Plus Portable 1TB drive, which has a removable USB3.0 to SATA adapter. The Seagate adapter worked perfectly on all the drive I tested (i.e., 2.5" and 3.5" 1TB, 2TB, and 3TB). I'm now looking for a quality USB3.0-to-SATA adapter with a single cable, like the Seagate one.
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it only recognizes one external drive ,they both would work but you couldnt open both to transfer data between each other
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You'll need a USB 3.0 hub to connect more than one more device. There is no daisy chaining hub built into the LaCie.
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not sure which way you are going but... I have this thunderbolt drive connected directly to thunderbolt connection on my computer and then about 5 firewire800 drives daisy chained to it with an adapter.
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I've been trying this with no success. A single drive through a 7-port usb hub worked fine. However, upon connecting three drives, one TB drive became corrupted and had to be reformatted! The other two TB drives were connected and able to be shared. Upon both hookups my wired connection continued to lose and regain internet; followed by not being able to access the router admin from firefox. At this point I'm ready to just connect a single tb drive and give up on multiple drives. If I have any later success I'll post again. Good luck.
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You can't daisy chain these drives since they only have one usb port. Both must be connected to your computer at the same time in order to transfer data from one another
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I think the dual thunderbolt version is primarily intended for that. I suppose if you used the USB port to connect to the computer and the thunderbolt to daisy chain to another gdrive, it would work. On the product creator's site, there is this forum entry on daisy chaining: http://support.g-technology.com/kbase/users/kb.php?id=76 I admit I have not tried this. Otherwise, if you want to go completely thunderbolt on it, you should choose the version of the g-drive with dual thunderbolt ports on it. http://www.amazon.com/G-Technology-G-RAID-Dual-External-Drive/dp/B002QID2NG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1402279606&sr=8-2&keywords=g+drive+dual+thunderbolt
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Hi Charles, I have two of these drives, the first one I configured myself to RAID 1, which I use to store my most important files, due to the redundancy. The second drive I left as is, which is RAID 0, which I use as a working drive where I need speed. Once I finish my job and edit the files, I store them on the first drive. I have them daisy chained together and have not encountered any problems. Hope this helps! I love these drives, very fast, good build quality and quiet. Good quality for the money.
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But how would you add more than one external drive? Would you just use a USB hub?
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There are 3 USB ports (2in back 1 in front), I have had multiple external hard drives connected.
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I'm not sure. I haven't opened up the casing or tried anything like daisy-chaining. However, you likely could, and if not you can always backup 2 separately. Again, as far as a daisy chain, I don't know.
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I use three 2T Verbatim USB drives. I am *very* happy with each of them. They work as advertised and I've never had a problem. I use them in a Windows environment and always reformat them to use NTFS file formatting--as that is much quicker. Typically, I leave them off, and only power them on to copy a backup to or to restore files from. Two of the drives I use are model # USB2T. I think they are USB2. The other is model # SNS2TB which I think is USB3. I prefer it because the on/off switch toggles in a different direction rather than being a button that one might think they pushed on or off when they didn't push hard enough. It's not a big deal either way, but it may be indicative of their making small improvements over time. Best of luck to you.
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I'm not sure about daisy chaining, but I use two on my machine. I provide two separate power cables and I use one of the USB ports as the header for the second unit
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Are you sure that you used the USB cable correctly? You need to plug both USB cables to your computer for the drive to work. One would only provide power, and the other would be used to transfer DATA, neither one can work on its own. As a troubleshooting step, try to use a drive in the enclosure that you know for sure is not dead, if that one works, and the other one is still giving you problems, then it might be a problem in the drive itself but not the enclosure. However, if the drive that you know is working well, still doesn't show up on the computer, then it might be a problem in the enclosure. Hope this helps!