Mac...thunderbolt or firewire?

darcym

the availability of thunderbolt has not long really hit mainstream, and it's quite expensive, I've just moved from firewire to thunderbolt and the interface caused £2k so it's all a weight up, you can get some quality bang for your buck firewire interfaces, I've been with a digidesign rack003 and rack003+ for a good many years now, and while not the best possible firewire device its certainly a very good bang for your buck especially in the used market.

Jeremiah

One thing to watch out for is with bus-powered interfaces; AFAIK Thunderbolt cannot supply as much power as Firewire, so Thunderbolt interfaces are more likely to need a separate power supply, especially if they also have phantom power on the mic inputs.

pmg

Deijavoo said:

My Apogee Duet uses firewire and I'm pretty happy with it. I would like to connect loads of shit to my TB port but haven't had the need yet.

My Duet runs off USB and is fine. I use fire wise for my time machine back up drive and link an external SSD as a boot drive thunderbolt