I have the G Drive 1 TB (GEN4 1TB) external drive purchased in 2010. I need to connect to my new MacBook Pro. I'm using the external drive for media storage of my video editing projects. Will a 800fw to thunderbolt adapter cable work?

I doubt this can be relocated or moved so you might want to just repost in the macbook pro area.

MacBook Pro
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro

https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os?view=discussions

Can you afford a new Thunderbolt case and cable? any case with FW800 is going to be slow 72MB/sec and less, and any new 1TB drive is capable of 75MB/s minimum up to 125MB/sec.

Thunderbolt storage can of course when setup properly reach 100's of MB higher using multiple drives.

Use what you have for a system backup or for secondary backup storage.

you might be able to take the drive - most cases allow you to open and swap drives - and use this:

G-Technology 1TB G-DRIVE mini High-Speed Portable Hard Drive

or this:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/HB137VC/A/g-technology-4tb-g-raid-professional -high-performance-dual-drive-hard-drive?fnode=5f

LarryCyn wrote:

I read somewhere the G Drives don't connect well to MacBook Pro.

That would be strange. While I don't have a GDrive, it's rare to hear of specific brands having specific problems with a MacBook Pro. There's a famous photographer who talks about his GDrives all the time, and he's Mac-based.