Will this meet these specs: Minimum Speed 7200 RPM with 8MB Buffer 1 Firewire port, and 1 USB 2 or USB 3 port formatted as Mac OS extended
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If your MAC is equipped with a USB 3 port use it to connect the drive. Ignore Firewire. If you only have a USB2 port available, use Firewire. Fastest connection possible is USB 3 with current technology!
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It depends if you have a firewire on your macbook pro, so it depends the laptop
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Yes. If using USB 3.0 you should use mountain lion due to the apple driver improvements in 10.8.2
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USB 3 is faster than FireWire. I use the drive for Pro Tools audio recording and it has never given me any problems.
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Once it is in the thunderbolt port on a computer it shows up to the operating system as a FireWire 800 device with an LSI chipset. Just like having a FireWire port. So, yes, it should be just fine.
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Usb 3.0 is the same for pc's and mac's. If you have a 3.0 port it will work. The provided cable is short, 2 feet maybe. I bought this to extend it. http://www.cablewholesale.com/products/usb-firewire/usb-3.0-cables/product-10u3-02110e.php This really is a good hub for the money, it's well built, and it's powered even when the computer is off so it charges your devices when the computer is powered down.
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Try and use - plug into - Firewire as it is faster than USB2.USB Speed = 400 Mb/s Firewire 800 = 800Mb/s
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Did I read right? On this LaCie the USB 2.0 transfers at 480 mbs and the 400 firewire at 400mbs? This is in the spec section describing the product. I have a new MacBook Pro and had to use the USB cable since the 400 firewire LaCie cable would not fit the Mac's 800 port. I found that it transferred very fast. However I bought this for the firewire capability and expect to use it. When will LaCie make the 800 firewire, I wonder?
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The LaCie 9000481U does not include Thunderbolt; it has two (2) FireWire 800 (9-pin) ports, one (1) USB 3.0 port (USB 2.0 compatible), and one (1) eSATA 3Gb/s port. The unit is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 and up.
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I haven't done so, but if U could transfer files between 2 macs that have FireWire 800, then it should work. If you're not sure, I'd check some of the Mac forums.
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Thunderbolt transfers data at 10 Gbps. USB 3 can only manage 5 Gbps and USB 2 will max out at a very slow 400 MBps.
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What firewire port do you have on your Mac Mini? If it is the new format then yes, if not then no.
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The page says "Macally 2.5-Inch SATA to Firewire 800 and USB3.0 SuperSpeed Hard Disk Drive Enclosure." Thunderbolt is a completely different protocol than Firewire or USB3, however, most Thunderbolt hubs do have USB3 ports, which work at very high speeds even on older Thunderbolt Macs that have only USB2 ports. However, from my experience with Thunderbolt hubs, one cannot boot through those USB3 ports, as the Mac doesn't seem to recognize OS's through the hub.
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The short answer is no. Your speed will most definitely be limited by the slow 5400rpm disk. It will not take full advantage of the Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 bandwidth. I'll be getting a Thunderbolt drive with SSD.
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Not enough info from you. What kind of cord is needed, firewire, usb or thunderbolt. I bought the thunderbolt for my new iMac which no longer has firewire.
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Yes, at least mine were using Firewire. This one also has Firewire and a USB 3.0 port, while earlier models do not. That worked out great for connecting USB 3.0 to a new 5k iMac, which is faster than FW anyway; but my older ones cannot as the 5k iMac has no Firewire port.
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I have not used it for that purpose before. The standard connection it comes with is a USB 3.0 cable which is faster than firewire. If you have a USB 3.0 connection on your computer than great, if not it will still connect via a USB 2.0 connection but will not have the faster performance.