That being said, Thunderbolt is supposed to give anything connected to via that cable to your computer the same speed as any piece of hardware connected internally. So a hard drive connected via thunderbolt should be just as fast as a harddrive installed internally. Also if you get a firewire audio interface, you will most likely need to get a firewire to thunderbolt cable as newer macs now only have thunderbolt ports and no firewire ports anymore. I think the mac mini's are the only current production models that have firewire still. On Jun 5, 2013, at 3:03 AM, Poppa Bear wrote:
> Thunderbold is the type of connection that the computer or external device > will have just like USB or Fire Wire. Thunderbolt is not like PCI, PCI is an > actual device/card that would need to be installed into the computer, but > thunder bolt is just the conection port on the Mac, or on a external hard > drive. > HTH > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Katie Zodrow > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 5:31 PM > Subject: difference between Thunderbolt and PCI > > Hi, everyone. Well, I'm finally now caught up with reading emails from the PT > list since I joined! Thanks for posting the tutorial Kevin recorded for > learning ProTools. I've been trying to find that podcast for the last 3 or 4 > months! I'm excited I can finally check that out. > I'm planning to purchase a Mac and ProTools system soon, but I was wondering > what the difference is between using Thunderbolt and using PCI. I'm confused > about what Thunderbolt is. Is it another audio interface or a separate hard > drive? Is it similar to a fire wire hard drive? > Thanks for your help. > Katie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
