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I am hoping to connect an older iMac (14,2) with Thunderbolt 2 to my Thunderbay 4 with Thunderbolt 3.
Unfortunately the StarTech adapter I had on hand for that purpose does not work; turns out it is TB3 host to TB2 peripheral only. (I swear they altered the description since I bought it 😞 )
Does anyone have experience with the Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 adapter for this purpose? The official description implies that it should be bidirectional.
Posted : 03/01/2021 1:25 pm
the only adapter that reliably works is the Apple adapter. It is indeed bidirectional for disk drives. It does not support Thunderbolt 1 to 3, however.
Posted : 03/01/2021 2:56 pm
I wanted to mention that on my two machines, a late 2012 MacBook pro, and a 2012 Mac Mini, the apple adapter does work going from Thunderbolt 1 to Thunderbolt 3 on my OWC Thunderbay 4, both with raid 5.
I wonder if later Macs do not, if your experience has been that they give problems.
Posted : 17/03/2021 1:03 pm
There have been some reported issues with TB1 to 3, but many users are able to use them. I think most issues are display related. But officially this adapter is not supported for Thunderbolt 1.
Posted : 17/03/2021 1:53 pm
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OP here: The official Apple TB2 <-> TB3 adapter has been working fine for me (iMac late 2013)
Posted : 05/04/2021 10:07 pm
