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1. FIREWIRE 800 TO USB 3 CABLE FULL
2. FIREWIRE 800 TO USB 3 CABLE PORTABLE
3. FIREWIRE 800 TO USB 3 CABLE PRO

Still I stand corrected probably best to just buy a usb3 cable. My guess is it was cheaper to just make one type of cable and put some of them in usb2 bags and some in usb3 bags. The funny thing is my "usb2" usb-c cable must actually be usb3 (all wires connected) and just marked usb2. I can't believe usb-if allows companies to only connect 5 of the 16 wires and make usb2 usb-c cables. The below presentation from 2016 specifically mentions USB-C USB 2.0 cables: There is no requirement that USB-C cables or ports work at those speeds, and according to the USB-IF, USB-C USB 2.0 is definitely allowed and encouraged. That also includes usb-c to Type-A cables. The "superspeed" wires simply don't exist in a USB2 cable. Note: for USB-A USB3 has additional pins compared to USB2 so you will need a new cable. That being said I tried using a high quality usb cable to connect a TB3 eGPU enclosure and it worked just fine. It is backwards compatible with usb (all speeds). It operates at roughly 4x the signalling rate of usb and thus you should buy a TB3 cable (will have TB3 logo on the ends). That being said if you buy cheap junk it may not be compliant and while not compliant it might operate at lower speeds but choke at higher speeds. So marketing aside there really is no such thing as a USB 2 usb-c cable vs USB3 usb-c cable. At least Monoprice is upfront about it now.Ī Compliant usb-c cable should operate at 10 Gbps, 5 Gpbs, 480 Mbps, etc. Lots of people don't realize that a USB-C cable might only have USB 2.0, so they have a new laptop with USB-C/USB 3.1, and they're using a USB 2.0 cable since it was the cheapest on Amazon/Monoprice.

It can use the old connectors, or it can use USB-C. USB 3.1 Gen2 is the current top-end, 10Gbit standard. (I still don't understand the rationale behind this) What you're thinking of is now called USB 3.1 Gen1. It does not exist any more, and they would like you to believe that it never existed. USB 3.0 has been handwaved away by a marketing team somewhere. It exists because USB 3.0's micro-b plug was the stupidest idea anyone's had for quite some time. It is not required that it support USB 3.1g1, 3.1g2, Power Delivery or any of the other nifty things USB can do these days. You know your FireWire very well, but not so much your USB.

FIREWIRE 800 TO USB 3 CABLE FULL

It can power HDMI and DisplayPort, natively, over an adapter, along with the full gamut of USB devices, from 1.0 up to 3.1. It has smaller, simpler connectors that can be plugged in upside down, along with twice the theoretical speed (10 Gbps) of USB 3.0 and far more versatility. This should be cheap, have high performance and put a low burden on cpu.And at the volume end, USB 2.0 has given way to the much faster USB 3.0, which is now being replaced by USB-C-a standard being led and championed by Apple. USB 3 seems to do the job.Ī very interesting test would be esata over thunderbolt. – one thunderbolt drive for projects I am currently working on My new favorite storage strategy is rather simple: The question is, not even whether USB 3 outperforms Firewire in every respect, but whether it is a usable alternative. The circle is bigger, the path is longer, so you can put more data on it.įirewire is a dying technology, there is no development, ports are vanishing and the price is not competitive. On the outside of the platters the disk reaches a higher transfer speed. Different partitions on a disk might result in different speeds, because the transfer rate the hard disk is able to reach depends also from the physical position of the heads on the platters. I see one remaining issue in the method you used however. It is interesting to see real world figures instead of just ‘800 mb/s’, ‘5 gb/s’ etc. Overall you did a good job testing the transfer this way. Since I was looking to have a smaller enclosure, I decided to give the Oyen Digital a shot. I found two: LaCie’s Rugged 1TB (which I’ve used in the past with no issues) and the Oyen Digital Mini Pro.

FIREWIRE 800 TO USB 3 CABLE PORTABLE

That configuration isn’t as easy to find as you would think on a portable drive. Ideally I would want to test the same drive that has both Firewire 800 and USB 3 built-in. That meant that I didn’t want to use two different drives. Since I couldn’t find the data I wanted, I decided to do my own tests. Most of what I found was comparisons to USB 2 or tests done before Macs had USB 3 built-in. I did searches online and really didn’t come up with much in the way of current data or test.

FIREWIRE 800 TO USB 3 CABLE PRO

Now that both the MacBook Pro Retina Display and MacBook Air ship with USB 3 I was curious to find out which was actually faster? Going with my existing Firewire 800 drives and the Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter or USB 3 drives.