{"id":6495,"date":"2012-11-02T16:25:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T21:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6495"},"modified":"2012-11-02T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T21:25:15","slug":"thunderbolt-to-firewire-adapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/02\/thunderbolt-to-firewire-adapter\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2013380\/firewires-demise-heres-how-to-cope.html\">Mel Beckman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2013380\/firewires-demise-heres-how-to-cope.html\"><p>The adapter works well when it works, providing full FireWire 800 performance. But users of the adapter have encountered a frustrating limitation: Only 7 watts of bus power is supplied to an attached device. The FireWire standard supports up to 45 watts, although most computers, including Macs, deliver 10 to 20 watts. Some bus-powered FireWire devices have an optional DC power port, even if they don&rsquo;t include an AC power adapter. If you can externally power your device, you can bypass the 7-watt limitation. Otherwise you&rsquo;ll need to explore other solutions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, this transition seems to be taking a while. FireWire is on the way out. Thunderbolt devices are few and expensive. USB 3 is here and fast. It&rsquo;s great in theory, but USB has never approached the reliability of FireWire.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Beckman: The adapter works well when it works, providing full FireWire 800 performance. But users of the adapter have encountered a frustrating limitation: Only 7 watts of bus power is supplied to an attached device. The FireWire standard supports up to 45 watts, although most computers, including Macs, deliver 10 to 20 watts. Some [&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":[202,30,201,175],"class_list":["post-6495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-firewire","tag-mac","tag-thunderbolt","tag-usb"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495","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=6495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6497,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions\/6497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}