Using thunderbolt with firewire adapter on older mac

John Rofrano
March 31, 2015 at 1:47 pm

[Jennifer Mayer] “Can I not use a thunderbolt to firewire adapter on 2010 Macbook Pro?”

I’ve never seen a Firewire-to-Thunderbolt Adapter? Can you point me to one?

There are Thunderbolt-to-Firewire adapters but I don’t believe that you can go the other way.

[Jennifer Mayer] “I am trying to connect a Lacie 2Big external drive. It will only mount with USB cable.”

Considering that your 2010 MacBook Pro only has USB 2.0 I’d say it’s time for a new Mac because that’s going to be far too slow unless you are just using it to store archived files.

~jr

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Jennifer Mayer
March 31, 2015 at 1:52 pm

Thanks John. Yes, I did make the decision last night to go ahead and buy a new computer….heading out it little while to make the purchase. Leaning toward getting MacPro, but initially was thinking of getting MacBook Pro. Still kind of on the fence.
John Rofrano
April 2, 2015 at 12:59 pm

I guess it all depends on if you need the portability of a laptop or not. The new Mac Pro is quite impressive but it does chain you to a desk and the MacBook Pro is quite a capable laptop so I don’t think you can go wrong either way. Good Luck!

~jr

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