03-08-2013, 12:17 AM
Ken Sp. wrote:
I think I read here, at one time, that thunderbolt is a bit overkill. FireWire 800 would completely saturate the drive speed, unless you're using an SSD.
Nope. FW800 delivers about half the bandwidth necessary to hit the peak speed of a fast hard drive.
But Thunderbolt IS overkill for a single HD.
USB 3.0 is more than enough for that.