Just don't let my eyesight get any worse, or the psoriasis rheumatoid arthritis with gout in my hands or my memory worsens.U-Haul Collegeboxes College Student Moving & Shipping Kit - Includes 5 Heavy-Duty 24' x 16' x 18' Boxes, 1 Roll of Tape, 10 Shipping Label Pouches, 5 Zip Ties, and 1 Marker $39.99 $ 39. I am not complaining, but I do not see the theoretical Thunderbolt 1 being much faster than the firewire 800, and in actual fact it is a fair bit slower.īut hey I'm retired and over 80 and I've got the time.

2.5' HDD Bufallo via Thunderbolt 1: 9.43GB took 11.54 minutes.

WD 3.5: HDD Black in Voyager dock via FW 800: 9.32GB took 9.25 minutes.

I am assuming it is due to the lower spinning speed of the Buffalo Drive.įor example, here are two carbon copy cloner clones and the amount of data and the time taken: Of two drives I used with carbon copy cloner, one 2.5' Buffalo HDD is connected via its Thunderbolt 1 connection to the same connection on the iMac, and the other CCC backup Drive is a bare WD Black 3.5' in a Voyager Q dock connected via its firewire 800 port to the same port on the iMac.Īccording to specs and theoretical speeds, for the Firewire connection, I should be getting close to 800 Mb/s for Firewire 800 and as my Thunderbolt 1 has a maximum speed of 10 Gb/s, (10 Gbps = 1250 MB/s) which is a pretty good speed increase, at least according to the books, but in actual practice a very seldom see such a speed increase.

One thing closely related to this topic is what I have discovered with my own 2011 27in iMac, and that one thing that fascinates me is why and how the speed of two of my backup drives work.

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