Will the firewire cord that comes with this give me the fastest speed to my MacBook Pro?
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The only cable that's faster is the thunderbolt cable a hard drive that accepts that cast way way more.
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It has both a firewire and USB and comes with both cables in the box. I use the USB 2 on my iMac 27". Have had zero issues with the drive. Buy with confidence.
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You can Purchase a thunderbolt(Male ) to firewire adapter (Female ) from apple £25.00 I use one and its great
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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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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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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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Yes for the Fire Wire, but if attempting to use on a new Apple device with Thunderbolt 2 you will need to purchase the Fire Wire Adapter from Apple.
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I cannot definitively say, but I would assume that the mac would throttle down the speed to match whatever is hooked up to it. At least that is what PC's do to make newer ports "backward compatible".
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Honestly, I can't answer that. I assumed so, but now that you ask I'm not sure. You'd have to ask the OEM. I have it in my 2011 MacBook Pro running a 1TB spinning drive just for backup and data storage, so I don't need all that blazing fast of a connection.
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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.
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I'm using two of these, one with a Toshiba drive the other with a Seagate drive, both using Firewire on an iMac. I have had no problems with either one.
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Working on my mac mini perfectly. USB3.0 and OSX Mavericks. I have not used the firewire port but I assume it will work well.
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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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From slow to fast: FireWire is 800Mbps, USB 3.0 5Gbps, Thunderbolt is 10Gbps (or 1.25GB/s) - In this case, FireWire is the slowest interface of the group.
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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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If the MacBook Pro has a mini DisplayPort then yes, it sounds like it is the right cable. I'm Macdumb so I couldn't tell you for 100% on that front.
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No. You'd need a Thunderbolt-to-firewire adapter, which Apple sells, in addition to a firewire cable such as this one. And I don't think any MacBooks used the mini Firewire connector, only the larger FW400 and the newer FW800 connectors. So this cable wouldn't help you at all.