You can also daisy chain several Firewire drives together (or use a Firewire hub), and add more as your needs require.

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Weak PC demand is the biggest issue, pulling down the performance of the whole food chain, chips, drives, software, everything.

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That, of course, drives the food chain for people and also cattle up by quite a bit and then it affects the economy.

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Both Digitimes and Maximum PC are reporting that supply chain slowdowns resulting from the tsunami in Japan may lead to a potential shortage of hard drives in 2011.

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