Apple Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter.

[bwana]

I'm shooting/editing a fair bit of video myself these days and up until now I was doing it on a 13" non retina. Believe it or not you don't need a 1:1 pixel ratio to edit.

 

[koffiejunkie]

I'm shooting/editing a fair bit of video myself these days and up until now I was doing it on a 13" non retina. Believe it or not you don't need a 1:1 pixel ratio to edit.

I know, but it's also my primary viewing pace. Our TV doesn't even do 720p

That's probably for hard drives. Card readers use much less power than a spinny disc

Mine will be here this afternoon - will text with an external drive then.

Turns out this is correct. It won't power the external drive. I'm guessing the adapter doesn't pass enough power, because I'm sure the Thunderbolt port does have enough on tap.

Unfortunately my encosure doesn't have an auxiliry power socket, so I can't even test it with an external power supply. I think I have a 90MB/s SD card though - I'll try that tonight.

 

[bwana]

I know, but it's also my primary viewing pace. Our TV doesn't even do 720p



Turns out this is correct. It won't power the external drive. I'm guessing the adapter doesn't pass enough power, because I'm sure the Thunderbolt port does have enough on tap.

Unfortunately my encosure doesn't have an auxiliry power socket, so I can't even test it with an external power supply. I think I have a 90MB/s SD card though - I'll try that tonight.

Bummer. According to the specs it will supply up to 7w. I wonder what the drives require?