Q: Using a thunderbolt drive with thunderbolt-gigabit adapter
Hi.
I have a bit of an odd situation.
I bought a used IMAC 27 retina 5k with a 256 SSD. late 2015 model - still under warranty. Backstory..before i made the purchase i called in the SN and the Apple representative said that it had a 1TB fusion drive. turns out it was a custom 256 SSD. Great machine, nice and fast but the drive is too small for holding all the photos we have locally. I called apple and they said it's easy to put the photos on a thunderbolt drive and it wouldn't be much if any difference in access time for the photos as thunderbolt comms is actually quicker than the SATA drive speed of an external drive.
Now for the odd question.
I don't want a hard drive hanging around my nice clean looking IMAC. I have an ethernet cable however in the wall.
Does anyone know if I can use a gigabit to thunder bolt converter on the mac side of the setup, use the in wall ethernet cable i have that allows me to put the drive up by my structured wiring panel, then connect the thunderbolt drive, with another gigabit/thunderbolt converter ?
To they and clarify that setup again:
-IMAC
- thunderbolt / gigabit converter
- about 100 feet of ethernet cable
- thunderbolt / gigabit converter
- Thunderbolt drive
or am i nuts?
upgrading the drive on the IMAC without voiding the warranty is WAYYY to expensive.
Cheers
Mac
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
Posted on May 7, 2016 6:19 AM
You are making it far to complex, just get one of:
https://www.twelvesouth.com/product/backpack-for-imac
hook up the External Hard Disk and you are done.
Posted on May 7, 2016 2:24 PM