Hi boys and girls
As per subject I need to connect a USB-C drive on to my 2017 macbook air via its thunderbolt 2 port. Will this adaptor do? The adaptor will connect to the macbook via a thunderbolt 2 cable.
Thanks
PS. I do not want to connect the drive via any of the macbook's USB ports as there's a DAC connected there. Having a DAC and a drive attached onto the same USB bus, is not a very good idea.
USB-C is only a connector specification and does not define what sort of signals run on it.
You can only connect Thunderbolt devices to a Thunderbolt 2 port. No simple adapter will allow you to use a USB drive on a Thunderbolt 2 port. The adapter you posted is to interface a Thunderbolt 2 device to a Thunderbolt 3 device. and will not work to connect a USB device.
The only way you can utilize the Thunderbolt 2 port to connect USB devices is to get a Thunderbolt 2 dock that has USB ports.
USB-C is only a connector specification and does not define what sort of signals run on it.
You can only connect Thunderbolt devices to a Thunderbolt 2 port. No simple adapter will allow you to use a USB drive on a Thunderbolt 2 port. The adapter you posted is to interface a Thunderbolt 2 device to a Thunderbolt 3 device. and will not work to connect a USB device.
The only way you can utilize the Thunderbolt 2 port to connect USB devices is to get a Thunderbolt 2 dock that has USB ports.
I do not believe that adapter will work. It will not provide the current to to the drive. This adapter only flows in one direction. The drive must be a self-powered device. Bus-powered devices connected directly to that Apple adapter are not supported
All you can do is give it a try.
Thanks. The drive is self-powered (actually it is the enclosure that is self-powered) and Apple touts this adaptor as being bi-directional. Nevertheless, with the male plug being thunderbolt 3 I can't help wondering whether it will "communicate" with the enclosure's purely usb-c output.
hyphen wrote:
I was afraid of that... I did have my hopes up for a while, with usb-c being a "subset" of TB3. Thanks for the clarification!
No, as I said, USB-C is a connector specification. It can be used to connect Thunderbolt 3/4 devices, charge phones and tablets, provide video connections to monitors, connect USB 3.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.2.1, 3,2,2, 4.0 devices, or anything else where a universal connector is desired to be used.
Hi,
I think it works.
I was afraid of that... I did have my hopes up for a while, with usb-c being a "subset" of TB3. Thanks for the clarification!
Connecting a drive in a USB-C enclosure onto a 2017 macbook air with a thunderbolt 2 port
