Thunderbolt and firewire are two interface connection standards that are intended for peripheral devices. I ordered a 500 gb samsung 850 evo, plus an owc firewire 800 usb 3 mercury. Firewire 800 has been standard on mac pros, imacs, and macbook pros for. The main difference between firewire and thunderbolt is speed. While the 2010 mac mini limits you to firewire 800 or usb 2. Through a single cable, the thunderbolt 3 dock brings an unprecedented combination of ports, convenience and power to your thunderbolt 3 equipped windows or mac. Oct 31, 2009 does anyone have any experience booting os x from an ssd drive connected via firewire 800, hopefully on an imac.
Jun 29, 2011 early thunderbolt vs firewire raid benchmarks. Enables firewire 800 connectivity to your computer mac win fw ev seriescompatible. I understand that firewire limits ssd s amazing sequential burst speed. My twoyear old macbook pro has both a ssd and a conventional spinning hard drive, plus one firewire 800 port. An ssd connected over thunderbolt seemed like overkill, and i was already powering one display with the built. Is upgrading an imac to an ssd over usb 2firewire an upgrade. Mar 19, 2020 information about these and other types of mac ports is available in the specifications for your mac. I upgrade it about 2 years ago to have 16gb ram and an ssd boot drive but now she cant upgrade to catalina we have an ipad pro and want to use sidecar a.
Antaira fwb68300 firewire 40094a 800 94b 4 port pci express controller card. At 10 gbps, thunderbolt technology is up to 20x faster than usb 2. Thunderbolt is the newer one that aims to compete with. Firewire ssd my imac is a 2010 27 i5, which i was finding slow so i got a firewire 800 ssd thunderbolt didnt arrive until 2011 model, this significantly improved by boot time and responsiveness. The weiss dac 202 and some other weiss models has a firewire input and it actually sounds best using firewire. Six lessons learned from dealing with an imacs dead ssd. Is thunderbolt doomed to be the new firewire, or can. Lacie 1tb rugged ssd pro external drive with thunderbolt 3 previous gallery image lacie 1tb rugged ssd pro external drive with thunderbolt 3 next gallery image lacie 1tb rugged ssd pro external. Connect your thunderbolt equipped mac to a firewire device with the apple thunderbolt to firewire adapter.
Make offer gtechnology 2tb external gdrive firewire esata usb 3. Choosing a portable thunderbolt hard drive lets look at the technologies powering the portable thunderbolt hard drives in the market today. Information about these and other types of mac ports is available in the specifications for your mac. I initially installed it in a fw 800 enclosure i was using for backups, and while it was much. Before i dive into the details, its worth noting some good news. The internal hd of the mac mini can be exchanged for an ssd or solid. Most firewire 400 devices can operate on firewire 800 connections. I did searches online and really didnt come up with much in the way of current data or test.
Owc thunderbolt 3 dock is the only game in town for firewire 800. Apples new thunderbolt technology uses the same displayport connection that has been available in older macs, which may be a source of confusion down. Boot os x on ssd via firewire 800 started oct 31, 2009. If both drives were new andor uncluttered, the 7200 rpm goflex pro for mac ultraportable drive would indeed be faster than its 5400 rpm goflex for mac ultraportable drive sibling. What type of connection is best to consider for an external hard drive. With thunderbolt available on your system a future sata 6gbps enclosure to. Owc thunderbolt 3 dock is the only game in town for. The same single hard drive external solution compared usb 3 vs. For the power macintosh g5 dual core and quad core, mac pro systems. Mac win thunderbolt 3 ssd hardware raid pelican cases sold separately. In my experience it has been significantly faster to restore from a timemachine drive rather than targetdisk mode over firewire or thunderbolt.
Antaira fwb68300 firewire 40094a80094b 4 port pci express controller card. Choose apple menu about this mac, click support, then click specifications. Difference between firewire and thunderbolt difference. To throw another variable into the mix, i am testing each.
Apples thunderbolt firewire adapter is a oneway connector. Owc thunderbolt 3 dock for windows and mac 14 ports. The performance gains were only so big since they were testing against a single nonssd drive. David weeks and i set up shop in his home office for a day of testing and comparing thunderbolt, usb 3, and firewire 800. I picked up an ssd crucial mx300 520 gb to upgrade my mid 2011 27 imac until the new mac pros are released. Replacing a macs 500gb or 1tb hard drive with a samesized ssd required at least. Going with my existing firewire 800 drives and the thunderbolt to firewire adapter or usb 3 drives. Sep 29, 2017 while the 2010 mac mini limits you to firewire 800 or usb 2. The internal hd of the mac mini can be exchanged for an ssd or solid state hybrid drive.
Aug 20, 2012 if both drives were new andor uncluttered, the 7200 rpm goflex pro for mac ultraportable drive would indeed be faster than its 5400 rpm goflex for mac ultraportable drive sibling. Ideally i would want to test the same drive that has both firewire 800 and usb 3 builtin. Small and compact, it connects to the thunderbolt also works with thunderbolt 2, but will be. Jul 28, 2018 firewire is a little bit of a premium vs usb 23 and i wouldnt invest in too much firewire hardware, but for a hdd, it may make sense. Quickly access all of the displays and peripherals at your desk while minimizing desk clutter. Apple thunderbolt to firewire 800 unboxing a ishukawa. Mac mini with firewire what to do with it disk storage. Restarting would often free up 20 to 40gb of disk space on the minis.
Lacie 1tb rugged ssd pro external drive with thunderbolt 3 previous gallery image lacie 1tb rugged ssd pro external drive with thunderbolt 3 next gallery image lacie 1tb rugged ssd pro external drive with thunderbolt 3. Early thunderbolt vs firewire raid benchmarks macrumors. Aug 03, 2012 apples thunderbolt firewire adapter is a oneway connector. Gonna try running a firewire 800 ssd as my imac boot drive. Aug 10, 2012 now that both the macbook pro retina display and macbook air ship with usb 3 i was curious to find out which was actually faster. Mar 15, 2011 confusing mini displayport with thunderbolt. It was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by apple, which called it. Seagate starts selling goflex portable thunderbolt adapter.
I got this adapter so that i could use an 800 firewire cable which was male on both ends to connect to my 2012 mac pro 5,1 in order to implement target drive on a 2012 mac book air with thunderbolt v1 or v2, i cant determine which one it is. Lacie rugged portable hard drives are the most trusted way to capture and transport data in the field. My concern is that my media drive for itunes is getting pretty full. Ieee 94 is an interface standard for a serial bus for highspeed communications and isochronous realtime data transfer. I cloned the internal system hdd onto the external firewire 800 ssd solid state drive and it has been working great for about 6 months so far. When internal surgery of a mac isnt in the cards, an external ssd can. Tb31pciex16 thunderbolt 3 pcie expansion chassis thunderbolt 3 to 16 x pcie aluminum pcie ssd external pcie enclosure pcie slot. Given that each one can drive six thunderbolt devices, apple clearly. Apple thunderbolt to firewire 800 unboxing youtube. How to add a fast new ssd to your old mac or macbook for only. A closer look at thunderbolt external storage rocket yard owc.
Almost every hard drive, ssd, and internal optical drive is connected to sata these days. Smallest portable thunderbolt thumb and keychain drives for mac. I keep my photo library on a portable 1tb seagate firewire 800 drive and all my itunes music and movies on a 256 gb external portable wd usb 2. Shop for firewire, firewire 800 macfixit australia.
Even when a typical single 6gbps sata iii solidstate. Dec 12, 2012 rebdrive firewire 800 ssd 256gbmac os x 10. Copy the entire internal drive to it and your machine will feel like a new mac with a solid state internal drive. My time machine drive is a wd portable drive on firewire 400.
Apples new thunderbolt technology uses the same displayport connection that has been available in older macs, which may be a source of. Use an external ssd to make an old mac feel new without cracking. Shop for firewire, firewire 800 external drives, firewire. Boot os x on ssd via firewire 800 oct 31, 2009 does anyone have any experience booting os. Even when a typical single 6gbps sata iii solidstate drive is connected to a thunderbolt or usb 3. Lacie 8tb 2big dock thunderbolt 3 raid storage previous. An external hard drive enclosure with a firewire input. I have also chosen the same path you did booting an imac with a dead internal drive with an external ssd. Connect your thunderboltequipped mac to a firewire device with the apple thunderbolt to firewire adapter. Not as fast as having the drive on an internal sata interface but noticably fast all. Dec 26, 2012 apple thunderbolt to firewire 800 unboxing a ishukawa. Much of this is simply because most data transfers in everyday realworld use sparse, spotty and intermittent read write requests. Gtechnology 1tb gdrive mobile ssd rseries storage next gallery image.
The minipro is equipped with the industrys best oxford chipset, which is approved by many professional audiovideo hardware and software manufacturers. The slowest sata bus has nearly twice the bandwidth of firewire 800, and later sata revisions have made firewire 800 practically obsolete for power users. However, as a boot disk, i think ssd s zero seek time can be just as important, if not more so. Gtechnology 1tb g drive mobile ssd rseries storage next gallery image.
I getting an i7 with the 780 4mb card and 1tb flash drive with 16mb of memory. Small and compact, it connects to the thunderbolt also works with thunderbolt 2, but will be limited to thunderbolt speeds port on your mac computer, giving you a firewire 800 port that supplies up to 7w for buspowered peripherals like hard drives and audio devices. While apples new adapter can be attached to a computer by its firewire connection, it will not provide thunderbolt over firewire. Mac pro 2019 mac pro late 20 mac mini 2018 and later. New macbook pro with retina display and ssd internal drive, a recent. While we are on the subject of portable hard drives, lets look at ones with the thunderbolt interface for macs. Thunderbolt 3 usbc use thunderbolt 3 usbc with displays and other devices that connect using either a thunderbolt 3 usbc.
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