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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1552942" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>I just picked up a WD Studio FW 800 - 3 TB recently. They've been discontinued in favor of Thunderbolt and USB 3, so some places are having close-outs on them. Picked mine up at Fry's almost 1/3 off.</p><p></p><p>There is no USB to FW - they are not compatible - at all.</p><p></p><p>You can use FW to Thunderbolt. So, a FW drive you buy now can be used with an adapter to TB later.</p><p>USB: it's not compatible with anything but itself - USB 3 is backwards compatible with USB 2 so you can use a USB 3 external drive with your USB 2 ports and be compatible with</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1552942, member: 24160"] I just picked up a WD Studio FW 800 - 3 TB recently. They've been discontinued in favor of Thunderbolt and USB 3, so some places are having close-outs on them. Picked mine up at Fry's almost 1/3 off. There is no USB to FW - they are not compatible - at all. You can use FW to Thunderbolt. So, a FW drive you buy now can be used with an adapter to TB later. USB: it's not compatible with anything but itself - USB 3 is backwards compatible with USB 2 so you can use a USB 3 external drive with your USB 2 ports and be compatible with [/QUOTE]
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