External Hard Drives for Thunderbolt 2

I have a MacBook Pro from 2015 with two thunderbolt 2 ports. I need the 2 USB ports for recording audio but I need to uses an external hard drive. I've had a heck of a time finding an external drive (or some kind of dock that will give me extra USB ports) that will work on thunderbolt 2. Anyone have any suggestions or links?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jan 3, 2021 7:25 PM

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Jan 4, 2021 12:24 PM in response to andypandaass

Gosh, tell me about it. I have two computers with Tb2. Thunderbolt 2 was very ephemeral so there's pretty much nothing out there for it.


Nov 2018: Is there a USB-A female to Thunderbolt 2 adapter for external hard drives? - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8654132 - essentially no.


I think pretty much all you can do with them now is attach an extra display using a mini display cable since that fits into that port. Of course then you need something that attaches to a mini display cable.

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External Hard Drives for Thunderbolt 2

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