External thuderbolt drive

[Bret Williams]

Have you seen this? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003EMJ34U/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3VZC5G7U3OWU4

Simple USB 3 to eSATA adapter. As both max out at about the same speed 300MB/sec, it should work just fine if you have a new mac with USB 3.

I looked at getting the adapters and using my old eSATA drives when I got a TB mac, but decided to bite the bullet and go for a better RAID 5 storage solution. Got the Pegasus R4 with 8 terabytes. But it’ll cost you! My iMac doesn’t have USB 3. But it does have FW800, which at only 70MB/sec is still enough to playback multiple streams of 1080i ProRess 422 in RT. I had to use my old GRaid the other day on a project and it worked just fine connected via FW800. Not quite at snappy as the Pegasus which I can count on for 200+MB/sec. I swear it used to be even faster, but maybe getting full / fragmented.