![]() ![]() That made it an easy choice to go with FireWire 800, which maxes out at a raw rate of 800 megabits per second (Mbps). USB 2.0 is too slow, and I lacked USB 3.0. The SSD I chose has FireWire 800 to provide a fast-enough connection to my Mac mini, plus USB 3.0, so I can use it with the next Mac I buy. (Amazon sells the Thunderbolt/USB 3.0 Transcend 512GB SSD external drive for about $370, including both kinds of cables.) So any Thunderbolt drive would need to have two ports to support passthrough, and I didn’t find any in my price range. An SSD connected over Thunderbolt seemed like overkill, and I was already powering one display with the built-in HDMI port and another via DisplayPort using the Thunderbolt connection. My model of Mac mini has four USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port, and Thunderbolt.
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