Thunderbolt 1 or Thunderbolt 2?
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I think it is thunderbolt 1. It really won't make any difference. It is only a two mechanical drive enclosure, which can't exceed thunderbolt 1 max anyway. If yoou have two ssd's, raided, that might be a different story.
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The dock only ultimately provides one thunderbolt connection. So with my early 2011 macpro I still had only ability to have one additional monitor but I don't have an HDMI connector. Not sure what the Air has. Ultimately I bought a new MacBook Pro with two thunderbolt displays and now have two external monitors and the laptop display. Love it and it gave me an opportunity to upgrade.
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No it does not have 2 thunderbolt connectors. Only 1 thunderbolt and a 3.0 port.
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Yes. Thunderbolt 2 uses the same connectors as the original Thunderbolt, so Thunderbolt 2 devices will be backwards compatible with Thunderbolt peripherals and vice versa. But a Thunderbolt device connected to a Thunderbolt 2 port will perform at the Thunderbolt speed of 10 Gbps. Thunderbolt is basically a mini displayport with an apple name, so it should work.
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Thunderbolt transfers data at 10 Gbps. USB 3 can only manage 5 Gbps and USB 2 will max out at a very slow 400 MBps.
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I prefer G Drives because the speed of the HD 7200RPM. I know connecting via thunderbolt is not going to make it faster but I am already using my USB ports for Audio Interfaces. It is just convenience and less things to carry and connect by using the thunderbolt.
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Here is one more... more expensive but probably works better and is faster as it plugs into the thunderbolt port.Sonnet Echo ExpressCard Pro Thunderbolt Adapter & SxS Media Reader
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True. But you'll be getting a tremendously noticeable faster speed simply from the thunderbolt interface cable. I was surprised at how well it performs while not in a Raid config.
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Hi, Melissa. No Thunderbolt. You must have seen a photo with an e-SATA port which it does have. It's got two 800FW ports, one USB port and one eSata port. You can easily get a Thunderbolt to 800FW adapter which is what I use with my AirBook. They cost $29 from an Apple store. '-( Hope this helps! Dana Jae
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Probably not. FireWire is either 400 or 800 Kbps, and both thunderbolt and USB 3 are faster.
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There is absolutely no reason to get thunderbolt, USB 2.0 goes up 450mbps with 300 being the typical peak. For comparison, the most common internet today only goes from from 20-50mbps. Most at home routers don't even support Local Area Networks to 300mbps, you're really only getting thunderbolt for the name really. Thunderbolt is overkill for this, a good use of a thunderport would be like hooking up a 4k resolution monitor that needs tons of bandwidth.
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You can Purchase a thunderbolt(Male ) to firewire adapter (Female ) from apple £25.00 I use one and its great
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No, I built this as a editing machine for solid works, and at my last job had two thunderbolt displays connected daisy chaining two more externals. In total I have 4 monitors running on this computer without issue. The ports are at a standard distance way from each other that two thunderbolt cables connect perfectly.
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I have both. I have had several G Tec devices (USB and FireWire) both mobile and non-mobile prior to the Thunderbolt, and still use two of them. The Thunderbolt is great! I have found each of my G Drives to be first rate. The G Drive also looks better and is less bulky than the La Cie. My La Cie is good, but it gets hotter than the G Drive. I understand that others have found the La Cie to get hot so mine is not an unusual case. I like the G Drive better, but that is a personal choice. I don't think you can go wrong with either.
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There is no thunderbolt cable included with this adapter... That will have to be bought separately...
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To answer the question, no. The model I have, has 2-800 firewire ports and 1-USB3 port. The other picture which is confusing is not the one that I received. It has an esata port, 2-800 firewire ports and 1-USB2 port. Neither one has a Thunderbolt Port. This is the one with Thunderbolt... G-Technology G-RAID with Thunderbolt Professional Dual Drive Storage System 4TB (0G02289)
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according to Wikipedia Thunderbolt 2 is backwards compatible and should accept cables designed for Thunderbolt 1, which seems to be what this cord was designed for, so I cannot guarantee it would work because I haven't tried it but I would expect it to.