Re: [Avid-L2] Connect Tbolt only drive to a Westmere MacPro (mid 2012)

 

So you can get a converter to connect a USB3 drive to a Tbolt port, but not a Tbolt drive to a USB3 port?  LAME!  I just need the data.  I don't need all the video support and crap.  Just the data.  Tbolt is really starting to annoy me.

Jay

On Jul 24, 2017, at 12:18 PM, Jeff Hedberg jeff@unioneditorial.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Jay,

You won't find a card or cable that will do this.

Best bet is to get one machine that can handle thunderbolt, then push the data across the network.

USB3 is a good addition to that machine, I'd recommend adding that regardless. I added the Sonnet, and it's worked well here.

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On Jul 24, 2017, at 1:11 PM, Jay Mahavier jay_mahavier@earthlink.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Situation is that I have people bringing me drives that only have Tbolt ports on them. How can I connect that to an older MacPro? I don't see any PCIe cards to add Tbolt ports, but maybe I'm missing something.  

I did find a PCIe card from Sonnet to add USB3.0 ports, and a PCIe card from StarTech to add USB3.1 ports, but is there a cable that will allow a Tbolt drive to be connected to either USB3 or USB3.1?

Thank you for assistance.

Jay

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