Apple Thunderbolt To Firewire 800 Cable

This adapter combined with Apple FireWire to Thunderbolt , and FireWire 800 to 400 adapter for using old FireWire device with M1 MacBook Pro. Works great.

I have had mine several months and am pleased with it. It does not support Thunderbolt 2 or Firewire 400/800. It does get quite warm during use.

I use a Presonus Firestudio Project, which uses a Firewire connection, in my home studio. Of course, Firewire is a dead standard but I had seen that Apple had a converter to go from Firewire to Thunderbolt, so when I ordered my ASUS Republic of Gamers computer from B&H of course I ordered the Apple converter too. Unfortunately what I didn't realize was that the Thunderbolt end was the older, larger connector, and the computer had a USB-C/Thunderbolt connector that's a different size. So I still couldn't make the last mile. I ordered this converter, and it works perfectly. A couple of words of caution, though. It didn't work right away, not because of the converter but because of quirks in the Presonus hardware and their Studio One software. If you're looking at this for the same reason, be sure to remember to install Universal Control off the disk that came with the hardware first. Then download the update. It might take a few restarts to get the computer to see the Firestudio Project and get the light to turn blue. Once you've done that, if you're using Studio One and it doesn't show up automatically you can manually select it as the audio device. Then you'll be good to go. This converter has been a lifesaver. I can now record again, and I don't have to try to talk my wife into letting me buy a new audio interface!

After running Lightroom and Photoshop on a MacBook Pro for about 5 years, I finally broke down and bought the Mac Pro. I did not realize how much time I had been wasting, twiddling my thumbs while the old MacBook churned away processing images. The Mac Pro is very fast and quiet and has a nice assortment of ports. After purchasing a Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter, I was able to quickly mount two daisy chained external Firewire drives along with a USB3 drive and a new Thunderbolt backup drive. It is also nice to have the 1TB internal flash drive for software and temporary storage. It took me a while to figure out that I needed a new, Thunderbolt to Display Port cable to connect the Mac Pro to my 27 inch NEC monitor. Once I got the NEC cable and a keyboard, I was quickly up and running with a monitor resolution of 2560 x 1440 (no adaptor required). Although the Mac Pro does not have an optical drive, I learned that it can share the drive on my MacBook Pro using WiFi or an ethernet cable. I was able to use this approach to install some software that I have on CDs. Overall, I am very happy with the Mac Pro. It may be the last computer that I ever buy.

The Apple Thunderbolt Cable worked perfectly for my streaming setup which included a Nikon D750 going out to a Blackmajic Ultra Mini Recorder to my Apple iMac. The cable is long enough to run the cable from the camera as it’s mounted on a tripod in the center of my studio.

Notice how Apple stopped selling their Thunderbolt Pro cable? I have one. It stopped working after a year. This Cable is solid. Hasn't failed me (yet).

With this adaptor I connected a Thunderbolt to Firewire adaptor and the daisy chain worked fine... so far. I do have other gear, with Firewire connectivity, that I have yet to test but will.

I bought this drive to be able to shoot RAW images and be able to edit them on the go without having to worry about running low on internal hard drive space it was an necessary upgrade. The G-Raid mini helped me with both of these issues. Not only did it give me more space but thanks to the RAID it also performed far better than any of my firewire 800 external hard drives. The best aspect of the drive is that its firewire 800 powered, but unlike many other firewire 800 powered drives on the market, this drive has a second firewire 800 for daisy-chaining. Having this option has allowed me to hook up my firewire 800 CF card reader and be able to work efficiently on tight deadlines.. The protective pouch is a nice complimentary bonus to keep the drive in super good shape. The eSATA is a nice, but I haven't been able to use it with my Macbook Pro 17 since my Griffin eSATA expresscard doesn't respond to it. The only downfall to this product is that in order to switch from RAID0 to RAID1, the drive has to be completely formatted, and there is no notice included with the product that mentions the drive needs to be formatted. Overall its a wonderful product, and I'm convinced that if I need more space in the future I will be purchasing more of these.

Excellent device. Pretty, small, fast (using it via Firewire 800), quiet and safe (RAID redundancy). Using it for my Aperture library and it works really well. Built for continuous use (built in fan, also very quiet).

Using the enclosure for external drive on MacBook Pro 13 unibody. Wanted the Firewire 800 speed for an external bootable drive. Found it best to follow instructions of NOT screwing the hard drive down to the heat sink(even though there were enough screws in the package to do so). As it turned out two of the drives I was using were bad so it was easy to just open the end-cap and slide the I/O board with hard drive out to replace then slide it back in. The two end-caps (one permanent the other has screws to hold it in place) hold parts inside fairly well with a 2.5 5400 rpm SATA hard drive. This case is not intended to be water-proof, shock-proof or dust-proof etc. Just an enclosure for an external hard drive best used laying flat and still. Happy with the fact that package includes USB 2 to USB 3 cable as well as Firewire 800 cable. device is capable of daisy-chaining Fireire 800 devices since it has two ports. Included is a pleather carrying case. Has a tiny on-off switch. Case is see-through clear plastic with reasonably thick construction. The blue LED when turned on is a good visual cue not to shake or move the enclosure as the hard-drive is on and spinning. Careful not to tighten side screws to hold the end-cap in place is they may strip or crack the plastic piece.