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Question: I need to clone my macbook pro hdd to a ssd, so I can them switch drives. I can do this by booting to Acronis cloning software. I need to know if the thunderbolt is hot at boot up.
Document: Right now that adds about $50 the the cost.The sled portion of the adapter is heavily ventilated on the sides and end, and with good reason. The adapter dissipates a LOT of heat. It isn't dangerously hot - hard drives typically run warn anyway - but it is noticeable. You'll want to make sure you allow it to get enough air to keep it from overheating. Don't toss a magazine on top of it.I was prompted to buy this adapter by a recent move to a Macbook Pro Retina Display.
Relevant gear I have:GoFlex ThunderboltVertex 4 SSD, 1.5 firmwareEarly 2011 2.3 core i7, 17&#34; MacBook Pro w/ stock Samsung 525Gig internal SSD8gig RAM, Samsung 1333hz CL9Elgato .5 meter black Thunderbolt cableWords:So friggin fast I can't be leave it. Gigs transfer effortlessly like a candy wrapper in the wind, &#34;Whisp&#34; A whole other league, a new era. Mind blowing.Note: Everything SSD and Thunderbolt get hot under operation, it's normal..
But I also now own a BUNCH of bare 2.5" SATA drives, which I use for archives and for doing clone backups of my partitioned boot disk. I use GoFlex I/O adapters to connect them to the port du jour. When I'm done using the drives I keep them in storage boxes like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Ineo-Technology-Drive-Protection-I-NC07/dp/B0051BV0H0. They're small, safe and less expensive than GoFlex drives for archival purposes.Now to the GoFlex Thunderbolt adapter itself - The adapter is a good deal larger than the USB and Firewire GoFlex adapters, which are inch-long affairs that plug onto the end of the drive chassis.
Now I join the others in removing my old rating and giving this "product" a 1.When I was consolidating external disks by transferring a few hundred G of files, the Macbook Pro totally locked up and required powering off to recover. The freeze was total; the file transfer indicator froze, the trackpad didn't work, and the keyboard was dead, too.I tried a second transfer with a different goflex hdd and the same thing happened after a little over 180 G had been transferred.When I changed from the thunderbolt interface to either the FW 800 or USB Seagate interfaces the problem didn't occur, and in fact, over the last several years I've never had a similar lock-up problem with these Seagate adapters.What was odd is that I've left the thunderbolt adapter hooked up for hours at a time, handling the time machine files with no problems.However, based on these incidents I'd recommend NOT buying this interface until Seagate gets it working.I saw in one of the comments that Seagate had told a user that it was an Apple OS X problem.
This adapter is fast as frack but also hot as Hell. It's a bit pricey but if you need the speed it's worth it. I do a lot of photo editing so I could justify the cost. Probably not worth it for general use and back up unless you're the impatient sort. If your looking to get on the thunderbolt train I think the Seagate goflex adapters are the most versatile and cost effective option going.
Works very well with my 2011 Macbook Pro. It is a great device for hooking bare 2.5" SATA laptop drives to. Doesnt have to be in any kind of case just a bare drive. This helps for data recovery from another computer that has died. Very slim device that does what it says, and fast.Only issue I had is that it does not work very well with SSD's. I still gave it 5 stars because the device works as it should, it is not really "meant" to be used in this manner to hook bare drives to.
I have used this product intermittently to work on video files on my Macbook Pro Quad, It worked ok but not without annoying issues.1. It would disconnect the drive at the slightest movement of the cable.2. It would disconnect the drive randomly(I have used different drives, Seagate Go-Flex ,Seagate 2.5HDD, OWC SSD and Toshiba 2.5) it didn't matter. It Randomly disconnects without movement of the set-up.3. After a period of use, It Died...The Light is on but the drives does not appear on the Computer.
This will not work immediately when you connect directly to your MBPr using a thunderbolt cable. You will need to restart the PC with the cable still attached the HDD. Windows will then be able to recognize it after the boot up. Remember to plug in when rerooting.Transfer rate of lossless audio maintain at a stable transfer of 85-95mb/sec on a MBPr running windows home premium.It does not come with a thunderbolt cable, u need to get it separately from apple directly for $49.
I used it to clone my MacbookPro's 500GB SSD to a Samsung 1TB SSD which I put on the Seagate adapter. There is some discussion about whether the Seagate adapter can handle large SSDs. It was fine with the Samsung 1TB. When I had cloned it, I put the Samsung in the laptop and the original (a Toshiba) on the sled. Both worked fine with the Seagate adapter. You need to shim the sled up about 2mm to take the strain off the connector but the connector is a sturdy unit and you don't need to be fussy.
Fast hard-drive adapter for my mew MacBook Air.When I use this thunderbolt adapter with Seagate GoFlex  FreeAgent  1.5Tb STAA1500201 hard drive,it gives me HD read-write speed of 50-60 Mb/sec. (I expect the speed is limited by the hard disk maximum read-write speed, so the thunderbolt can give even more high speed)And when I used the same disk with the USB 2.0 adapter in the same MacBook Air - the speed was 14-16 Mb/sec.So, anyway I have 4 times read-write speed boost for huge 1.5Tb external HD, that I really need for my Mac.
Answer: A drive placed into the GoFlex Thunderbolt can be a boot device.