{"id":10970,"date":"2015-04-06T12:52:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T16:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10970"},"modified":"2015-04-06T12:52:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T16:52:44","slug":"speedy-transfers-with-ip-over-thunderbolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/06\/speedy-transfers-with-ip-over-thunderbolt\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedy Transfers With IP Over Thunderbolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2015\/04\/speedy-transfers-with-thunderbolt-over-ip\/\">Dan Moren<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2015\/04\/speedy-transfers-with-thunderbolt-over-ip\/\">\n<p>Right now Thunderbolt remains the fastest port on both my 2011-era iMac and my MacBook Air from 2014&mdash;even if it can&rsquo;t reach its full speed of 10Gbps (or 20Gbps in the case of Thunderbolt 2), it can still transfer a multi-gigabyte file from one machine to the other in a matter of seconds. But using it to transfer files does take a few steps.<\/p>\n<p>While you could use <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/PH13842?locale=en_US\">Thunderbolt Target Disk Mode<\/a>, which essentially lets you boot one of your Macs as an external drive, I generally don&rsquo;t feel like shutting down my computer just to transfer a file. Fortunately, there&rsquo;s another option: Thunderbolt can converse via the same Internet Protocol (IP) used by Ethernet. It just takes a little quick configuration.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Moren: Right now Thunderbolt remains the fastest port on both my 2011-era iMac and my MacBook Air from 2014&mdash;even if it can&rsquo;t reach its full speed of 10Gbps (or 20Gbps in the case of Thunderbolt 2), it can still transfer a multi-gigabyte file from one machine to the other in a matter of seconds. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,476,201],"class_list":["post-10970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-networking","tag-thunderbolt"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10971,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions\/10971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}