Saturday, January 18, 2020

Re: [Avid-L2] Connecting a Thunderbolt 3 Drive enclosure to a USB 3.0 PCIe card?

Greg is correct.  Thunderbolt has to be enabled on the motherboard and a CPU to get TBolt speeds and even just a connection.  You can't just 'upconvert adapt' to it, otherwise tons of adaptors would have come out since 2015.

And a cheap solution to get old MacPro cheesegrators is via a MacMini that has a TBolt port, albeit it may be TBolt 1 or 2, not 3.  

Now, once a unit has TBolt, using a bi-directional "adapter" to go to USB 3, eSata-III, is easily possible.

But you can't build a box/adapter with TBolt to go into any CPU that was not natively built for it.

-keoni tyler
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-------- Original message --------
From: Secret HQ <Greg@SecretHQ.com>
Date: 1/17/20 19:02 (GMT-08:00)
To: Avid-L2@groups.io
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Connecting a Thunderbolt 3 Drive enclosure to a USB 3.0 PCIe card?

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 ??  ;-) 

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On 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:
 
 
On 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
Posted by Video Geek Squad at 8:31 AM

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