Using thunderbolt with firewire adapter on older mac

[John Rofrano]

[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]

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]

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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