The 2.5" GoFlex adapters supply power to a 2.5" drive through FireWire, USB or Thunderbolt directly, while the 3.5" adapter is a larger base which supplies power to a 3.5" drive via a wall wart. The bare GoFlex drive, of whatever generation, is nothing more than a 2.5" or 3.5" SATA hard drive in an enclosure that exposes the power and data ports on the back of the drive. The Seagate GoFlex adapters are self-contained SATA to USB, SATA to FireWire or SATA to Thunderbolt bridges. This is untrue - the variosu GoFlex options are all just direct plug SATA adapters.
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I realize this is all somewhat off topic, but I had to say something to clarify the statement that " the items listed for the Seagate drive are for that drive only". Because these are larger drives I have in continuous use, I bought the Firewire adapters, and they nearly doubled the transfer speed to these drives. But Seagate sells an adapter that swaps out the drives' USB 3.0 interface for a Firewire 800 interface. I have a couple of Seagate Backups+ drives that came USB 3.0 enabled. However, if there was an adapter that could allow me to connect all of my USB 3.0-capable drives to my iMac's Firewire 800 port and harness its higher speed (compared to my iMac's USB 2.0 ports), it would be worth spending money on such a device because it would work with every USB 3.0 drive I've bought or will buy.Īs to your last few sentences, I'm not sure what you're saying.
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I'm using these drives for long-term storage of data, so spending considerably more money to get Firewire drives would not make any sense at all. That wasn't my question.Īnd, yes, I do buy the USB versions because they are cheaper. MichelPM-Of course I know that there are external drives with Firewire 800, and I knew that when I bought my external drives (and all without having to do a bit of research). Radiation Mac-Thank you for the information.