John,
It will not work - at all.
Your only hope is to connect this drive to another computer which has Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt on Mac is a motherboard-only proposition. If your Mac does not have Thunderbolt built in to the motherboard, you do not have Thunderbolt, period.
If the drive supports both Thunderbolt and USB, then you could use a USB adaptor. This might be possible - read the manual on the drive to find out.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 10:02 PM Secret HQ <Greg@secrethq.com> wrote:
You can't put thunderbolt into usb. Mac uses the usb 3.1 connector for thunderbolt 3- I got a bi-directional adapter from Apple that connects thunderbolt 2 to t-bolt 3, but aside from that, I think you're out of luck.How about a Mac mini and some gigE ?? ;-)________________________Greg HusonSecret Headquarters, IncGK Huson, LLCGreg (at) SecretHQ.comOn Jan 17, 2020, at 18:49, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:That looks like the others and it seems that it would connect to a mac with usb C to then connect to a usb 3.0 device. I need to get from a USB 3.0 A connector on the mac pro and adapt it to connect to a Thunderbolt 3 device. It seems thunderbolt 3 as the source can be adapted to all kinds of device types including usb 3.0 but going the other way doesn't seem to exist. In a perfect world I'd plug in a usb 3.0 type A to my mac pro old cheese grater and the other end of the adapter/cable will have a thunderbolt 3 connector. Of course the bandwidth would be limited to usb 3.0 but then I could connect. Now I got nothing but going through another computer.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 05:18 PM, Sol Fischler wrote:
Further down in that Amazon link, however, I saw this:Would this work? (You tell me yes, and I might buy one also...)-- Sol-------------------------------------------------Sol FischlerEditor: Image & Sound914-525-2579On Friday, January 17, 2020, 06:31:19 PM EST, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:What I need is USB-A to Thunderbolt 3. Your link is USBC to USB-A. From the link:
"SuperSpeed Connection: Connects USB-A devices (flash drives, keyboards, mice, hubs) to USB-C devices (new smartphones, tablets, laptops). USB 3.1 Gen 1 (USB 3.0) enables up to 5Gbps SuperSpeed data transfer"
In my case the "Device" is a Thunderbolt 3 Drive enclosure/raid. If I could take this then convert the USB-C side to Thunderbolt 3 maybe that would work?
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 11:21 AM, Marcel B. wrote:
This is what I use. It works well with everything.
https://tinyurl.com/yxywmr3o
On 17/01/2020 13:24, John Moore wrote:I've done a bunch of googling and everything seems to talk about taking Thunderbolt 3 to USB C. What kind of adapter is there to take the standard USB 3.0 Type A connection on the USB 3.0 card in my MacPro mid 2010 upgraded to 12 Core 3.33GHz and connect to a Thunderbolt 3 Drive enclosure.Many of the other bays have trash cans and the connect to these thunderbolt 3 drives with a thunderbolt 3 to thunderbolt 2 adapter.I see if I had thunderbolt 3 on my computer it would connect to all kinds of things but obviously my old macpro doesn't support that.John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net
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