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  I was given a G-tech thunderbolt 2 RAID drive….

  Posted by David Carr on December 6, 2017 at 10:59 pm

  I have this drive:

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  but my computer only has firewire 800 and usb 3 ports. I can NOT install a thunderbolt card in the pc.

  so my question is…will this dock allow me to go thunderbolt drive> to dock > to firewire 800 in my computer for avid video editing?

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  Eric Santiago replied 8 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Rainer Wirth

  December 7, 2017 at 12:40 pm

  Hi David,

  the Raid you’ve got is pretty good,
  your computer you have got is not very good.
  Using a thunderbolt raid on a USB connection is senseless.
  The reason for a Raid system is to gain performance together with redundancy.
  In your case you don’t get performace from your raid.
  You can just plug a Sata Drive to the USB connection and you get as much performance
  as from the Thunderbolt raid.

  Cheers

  Rainer

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  Eric Santiago

  December 8, 2017 at 2:12 pm

  That OWC needs TB2 as a host connector.
  The FW800 is for input only and not a host connector.
  If you have a PC, get a TB2 PCIe card.
  HP makes one and is pretty decent.
  Of course we have no idea what PC you have so that could be the holdup.

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