Portable Hard Drive For Mac Thunderbolt

MiniStation™ Thunderbolt offers easy plug-and-play storage, featuring Thunderbolt 1 interface for unparalleled transfer speeds and a USB port for universal connectivity. With speeds up to 10 Gbps, MiniStation Thunderbolt offers speeds 2X FASTER than USB 3.0. Perfect as a PC* or Mac® portable hard drive, the MiniStation Thunderbolt offers one of the fastest connection interfaces available.

G-DRIVE mobile with Thunderbolt – stylish portable storage for laptop users featuring ultra-fast Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 interfaces. G-Technology combines up to 1TB. capacity and a 7200RPM hard drive, together with Time Machine compatibility for quick back up of documents, music, digital video and photos. The best SSDs and hard drives 2021 Top portable external drives for your Mac or PC. And it only achieves those speeds if you use a Thunderbolt 3 port on your Mac/Laptop. If you can afford it.

The current king of the mountain of portable Thunderbolt drive performance is Elgato's Thunderbolt Drive+. It's equipped with Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 interfaces, but inside it uses a Solid State Drive (SSD) mechanism made by Plextor — no hard drive here, pure flash storage for maximum speed. If you have a older Mac with an original Thunderbolt or Thunderbolt 2 port and want a Thunderbolt drive to use with it, go ahead and pull the trigger. A few makers of rugged drives, such as LaCie. LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C 4TB Portable External Hard Drive HDD USB 3.0 Compatible for Mac and PC (STFS4000800), with Slinger Hard Drive Case 3.8 out of 5 stars4 $229.94$229.94 Get it Thu, Jan 28- Mon, Feb 1.

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Overview

MiniStation Thunderbolt is a high performance portable storage and backup device that offers storage and extremely fast file transfer speeds.

Thunderbolt interface delivers extremely fast transfer speeds up to 10 Gbps for Mac users
USB 3.0 offers universal connectivity for Windows® PCs
Plug-and-play setup provides easy to use storage and quick capacity expansion
Pre-formatted for Mac
Time Machine® support offers scheduled backups for protecting Mac computers

UNPARALLELED SPEED

The MiniStation Thunderbolt portable hard drive features the revolutionary Thunderbolt storage technology, raising the bar on how you transfer, store and transport data. Delivering speeds up to an amazing 10 Gbps**, this portable Thunderbolt drive uses the fastest interface available, 2X FASTER than USB 3.0, ideal for creative professionals and multimedia enthusiasts. Additionally, daisy-chain up to six Thunderbolt devices to maximize use of a single port†.

EASY TO USE STORAGE
MiniStation Thunderbolt provides reliable, easy to use portable storage to quickly expand the capacity of your PC or Mac computer with Thunderbolt support and universal USB 3.0 plug-and-play connectivity.

USB COMPATIBILITY
Coupled with the lightning-fast Thunderbolt interface is a USB 3.0 port for universal connectivity and backwards compatibility with USB 2.0. The MiniStation Thunderbolt portable hard drive is pre-formatted for Mac computers but can easily be reformatted for use with PCs*.

TIME MACHINE BACKUP
The MiniStation Thunderbolt portable hard drive is pre-formatted for use with Mac and compatible with Time Machine® for complete data backup. Schedule backups and automatically protect your important ﬁles with this powerful Mac portable hard drive.

Specifications

Number of drives	1
Drive interface	SATA 3 Gbps
Hard drive sizes	1 TB, 2 TB

Thunderbolt Interface

Standards compliance	Thunderbolt
Data transfer rates	10 Gbps*
Number of ports	1

* 10 Gbps is the maximum transfer rate derived from the specifications of the Thunderbolt technology. Actual transfer rates will vary depending upon environmental factors. Data rates, features and performance may vary based on the configuration of your system and other factors.

Standards compliance	USB 3.0 / USB 2.0
Data transfer rates	5 Gbps* (USB 3.0) 480 Mbps* (USB 2.0)
Connector type	Micro B
Number of ports	1