You’re quite right! I started out looking for the PCI card we used, then got distracted by the profusion of Thunderbolt cards and as you say, got myself in a mix up between the old FireWire 400/800 and Thunderbolt 2 & 3.

Apologies everyone that read my reply!!

A few years back, we used a Thunderbolt 400 PCI card in an HP PC and that worked fine with a LaCie thunderbolt drive, so I can’t see why it wouldn’t work with the Promise R6.

I see StarTech do a range of these, including the faster 800 speed versions. https://www.startech.com/en-us/cards-adapters/pex1394b3

I agree with Patrick, CCC has been one of the most solid pieces of software I’ve every owned!

I use it for both regular bootable cloning of my drive and for creating hourly backups of a clients server so that when they accidentally delete a file or worse, a folder, I can go into the Safety copy and restore within minutes.

They also allow downloads…

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Jenn,

Your Backup Plus is pre-formatted GUID NTFS, which is primarily designed for a Windows OS setup.
Apple being very aware of the need to fit in with the Windows market, decided some time ago to allow you to read NTFS formatted drives, then more recently to read & write to NTFS volumes.

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