How do I daisy chain via the USB port in the back of the drive? How do I daisy chain successfully?
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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.
1247854
The drive needs to be connected to a plug in and through USB (1.0, 2.0, or 3.0)
2144525
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.
1994200
I have not tested these for daisy-chaining them, but with other simular (these are better built) I have done 2. I personally do not go beyond that. If you need to go longer, I would consider USB over Cat5 adapters (not internet.. the adapters just use Cat5 cable) OR better yet.. Move the equipment in question.
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You will want to get a standard Micro USB cable (USB A Male to Micro B Male). Something like this: http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-USB-Cable-Micro-Meters/dp/B003ES5ZSW/ However, this is probably unnecessary since the drive will come with a cable that will work. You can use a USB 3 cable on a USB 2 port.
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Amazon have been sending me the WD20EARS-00MVWB0!If you do buy it, please buy it thru my Amazon Store, its the same price and I get a small kickback from the sale.http://astore.amazon.com/brisperpag-20/detail/B002ZCXK0IGreat drive btw, use this for my main data partition and for an external backup drive on many servers.
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I've had the same problem with UNIVERSAL BDs... found these comments, unplugged USB... works! :)
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Actually tried that with one of the drives. Was a pain in the ass, and in the end it resulted in 'nada'. The switched controller reported the same error. Did have a little luck with another approach. Got a portable unit that accepts a hard drive on one end and has a USB on the other. With two of these, I was able to use an old CD copy program to make a copy. Took some errors on the way but worked well enough that the new drive had about 99% of the data. Since then, RAID 5, and while other drives have failed, no more dta loss.Hope this helps.
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There are two usb ports, one for communication, the other for additional power.I thought the same that you did-- where can I get the adaptor. It turns out that the drive works happily on 2 USB connections-- and no power adaptor. Good luck!
1945242
No it can't clone the drive in that manner. Using that setup you can only copy from on drive to the next. Not clone
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I'm aware that the drive works with both USB cables plugged in. However, since the choice is between using up an extra usb port and a usb extension cable (my laptop has exactly two ports: one on each side, so the default cable won't reach); buying a usb hub; or finding a power adapter that will work with the unit, I would prefer to have the extra power cable run to where the drive will "permanently" sit.
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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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I use a WD portable drive and it works well with this USB hub. (I did not try with more than one external drives.)
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I'm sorry, but I can't answer the question because the software was never able to show the "destination" drive. I contacted support and they weren't able to get it to work, either.
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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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Only 1 drive can be recognized at a time. You can fill one then remove it and attach another. I use a USB switch which only powers one port at a time. This allows me to plug in multiple external disc at a time and switch back and forth as needed.
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Well, I do not know as it seems pretty neatly closed, but there is always the alternative to use an external and/or network accessible drives. That's what I do over a Gigabit network. Good luck.