Has anyone use this item with thunderbolt adaptor ? If you have are there any stand out difference from firewire ?
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You would be better off asking this on a recording forum. e.g. www.gearslutz.com I only used the Saffire Pro 40 with Firewire.
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I have recently started using it with apple's thunderbolt adaptor. I haven't had any issues whatsoever, it works just as well as it does with firewire.
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This adapter allows you to use your thunderbolt port with a FireWire 800 cable instead of the FireWire port on your computer
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Yes you would need to purchase the firewire to thunderbolt cable. This adapter is Firewire 400 to 800. I know the adapter I have for my MBP with Retina it is Thunderbolt to Firewire 800.
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This drive comes with a Firewire cable, an eSATA cable and a USB 3 cable.It has two firewire ports, one USB 3 port, and One eSATA port. No Thunderbolt.
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I use a FireWire cable to operate some digital equipment I own. My MacBook Pro doesn't have a FireWire output so I used the adapter to insert into my thunderbolt port which enabled me to attach my FireWire cable.
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Yes. Here's the thing about using the Apple branded Thunderbolt to FireWire adaptor. FireWire has an entirely different protocol than that of Thunderbolt. FireWire is a wonderful protocol to daisy chain with as it will allow 62 devices, whereas Thunderbolt will only allow FIVE devices to be daisy chained! So this can severely restrict your use of your FireWire daisy chain. For simple migration of one Mac to another there should not be any problems provided you disconnect everything FireWire from you Mac during the transfer. If you must have FireWire devices in use during the migration, only plug in what you must. I just broke my large FireWire daisy chain in two so that I can use some of my many Terabytes of files with the new Mac. It has been a real hassle and Apple has done a TERRIBLE job informing the public about the problems of going from FireWire to Thunderbolt. Does this answer your question? Robert
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Thunderbolt is the newer Apple/Mac standard, and is supposed to be faster. Fewer Thunderbolt-ready devices available though. I have the firewire version of the HD, and it is a huge speed increase over USB.
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This depends on what MacPro you have. Mine did not have thunderbolt ports, but a new radeon graphics card did have 2 thunderbolt ports. I think firewire 800 is the fastest cable for your MacPro.
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I am experiencing spin downs and unreliability. I think it is more a mac os x issue rather than the hardware enclosure, and I know that apple is not supporting firewire 800 anymore as they are focusing on thunderbolt, and as I am running version 10.7.5 of Os X, I have multiple spindown and -50 errors on my external 800 hard drives, I am sorry to add more confusion to the mix, mine might be a different story when I update my os x.
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There is no thunderbolt cable included with this adapter... That will have to be bought separately...
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USB 3.0 is much faster the firewire. USB 3.0 is 5Gbps/sec. FW800 is 800Mbps. USB 3.0 is not faster than Thunderbolt. However the Thunderbolt link does not speed up the USB 3.0 transfer. Read the link below to get more info on this. The dock works great! I have transferred high volumes of data between a USB 3.0 drive and the computer through the Belkin in a very short time! I really like my Belkin Thunderbolt Express dock! Checkout http://www.everythingusb.com/comparison.html
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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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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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Hello, this cable worked perfect. I needed to transfer information between my Mac's, I was using a FireWire 400 to 800, but I needed this adapter to go from FireWire 800 to thunderbolt. this works perfectly.
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The only problems that people have had with the apple adapter is with bus powered firewire 400 & 800 devices, due to the fact that thunderbolt supplies something like 7 watts while firewire can be in the 20-45 watt range depending on the hosting device. But since this drive is powered off of a external source you will not have that issue. you should have no problem running this drive from a thunderbolt adapter.
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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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If you go to rog.asus.com...four Super-Speed USB 3.0 ports, HDMI, mini-DisplayPort, VGA (d-sub), Gigabit Ethernet, an SD/MMC slot and 3.5mm headphone and microphone.no firewire. the mini-display port is NOT thunderbolt capable, but does support HDCP and DVI.