FireWire 800 to Thunderbolt Adapter

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FireWire 800 to Thunderbolt Adapter

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Apple finaly made the FireWire to Thunderbolt adapter. I have an G-Drive Mini external hard drive that I use daily for my Time Machine backups. This drive is important to me, because I have lots of precious files on my computer. The files I have are big, so when the hourly backup comes around, sometimes the transfer is a little slow.

I love using the newest technologies and have never tried Thunderbolt, so I was wondering if using the Firewire to Thunderbolt adapter makes file transfers between my iMac and G-Drive Mini faster. Would it even work with my external hard drive?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 8GB RAM, 500GB HD

Posted on Nov 3, 2012 8:04 AM

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David M Brewer

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Nov 3, 2012 8:23 AM in response to iemmanuelwash

No it won't make file tranfers fast than FW 800. Yes you can use it with external drives.

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Nov 4, 2012 2:28 PM in response to iemmanuelwash

If you use a Firewire drive make sure you have two connections on the Firewire drive so you can daisy-chain other devices to the Firewire...

For example:

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Jan 3, 2016 11:36 AM in response to David M Brewer

I wonder if you have run into this problem. I have 2 Glyph drives PortaGig 50s daisy chained together via Firewire 800, connected to new iMac 27" OS X 10.11.2 via Firewire Thunderbolt adapter. If I turn on one Glyph, no problem mounting ext HD. If I turn on second drive, the first seems to be ejected, lights start blinking on Glyph drives and neither will connect to computer. Doesn't matter which order I turn them on.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Sal

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