Hello everyone.
I play with the idea to get a “WD My Book Pro 8TB”.
Now my question:
Is it possible to run the “WD My Book Pro 8TB” via Thunderbolt 1 on a pc to have a speed advantage against USB 3?
The WD device itself has Thunderbolt 2 but as far as I know is TB (Thunderbolt) also backward compatible. I guess that the TB port is intended primarily for Mac users, but there are also some Windows motherboards TB Support.
In my case, this is a board from Gigabyte from 2012 (GA-Z77X-UP5 TH) which, as I said, “only” TB 1 and has 2x TB 1 ports on board the board.
I have found some TB 2 Pci cards in the net, but it seems to be that those only run on Z89 & Z99 chipsets and not on my older Z77. So the option also falls away i think.
Now only my question whether I can connect the WD MyBookPro 8TB via TB 2 to TB 1 (backward compatible), and if this is runnign well, because when i buy such a high-end device, then I’d like to use the faster speed of TB 1 instead of USB 3.
Also worth mentioning is that I currently run Win7 ( 64bit ) but will do the upgrade to Win10 ( 64bit ) soon !
I am thankful for every tip and idea in this case!
Thanks in advance.
Flex