Today I was using the thunderbolt external hard drive normally and then my computer fell off the couch. The computer and its ports are fine. But the thunderbolt connector (The one that goes into the still working port) has been damaged and will not go into the port and after attempting to bend it back, it won't go in at all. The LaCie USB port on the drive might be still working and I will try to back up everything onto another drive if such connection can not be fixed.
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The closest alternative to a Thunderbolt 3 drive is a USB-C version, as they also. G-Technology 1TB G-DRIVE ev ATC Portable External Hard Drive with Tethered Thunderbolt Cable, All-Terrain Drive Solution (0G03586) RPM: 7200 RPM; Dimensions: All-Terrain Case: 1.20' x 4.25' x 6.46' G-Drive ev ATC: 0.65' x 3.29' x 5.14'. Samsung Portable SSD X5. Samsung Portable X5 SSD is the best Thunderbolt 3 solid-state drive for. Usually all external HDD's and SSD's have a USB3.0 connector which should be quite compatible with the 2014 MacBook Air models. Why to use a complex process of getting a suitable cable when you already have the easier way with you, of connecting t.
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Is it possible to fix or get the thunderbolt connector fixed?
Adobe pdf 8. Even after attempting to fix the thunderbolt connector by bending it back. It won't fit into the port anymore. While my thunderbolt to gigabit ethernet works just fine meaning that the port on the MacBook air is just fine. Just the connector is the broken part. I think such a thing can be fixed if you take a new connector and change the old one out.
The main cause of the problem is the fall of the computer and taking the drive with it. Attempts to fix it (Bending the port back.) have failed.
Specifications of the MacBook Air: Intel core i7-4650U at 1.7GHz Base clock (turbo to 3.3GHz) 8GB of DDR3 RAM memory at 1600MHz, 128GB SSD, LaCie rugged external hard drive 1TB, Model identifier: MacBookAir6,2. macOS 10.12.6
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Posted on Jul 24, 2017 6:41 PM
Yes, you can use the Seagate STAE128 Thunderbolt Adapter for Backup Plus with any SATA external 2.5' Hard Drive. You can also use the STAE121 but I've read that they discontinued that for the newer STAE128.
Here's a little review on my experience with the Seagate STAE128 Thunderbolt Adapter and a bare 2.5' SATA external hard drive. Since switching over to the Macbook Pro Retina with 256gb SSD, I've been a little worried about my hard drive space.
Coming from the regular Macbook Pro with a 750gb hard drive I wasn't used to worrying about space. I had to move all of my music to an external and reduced the amount of photos I could work on at a time. Since I scan my photos to raw uncompressed TIFF files at a fairly high DPI, the files are quite large. I used to keep about six months to a years worth of scanned negatives on my laptop at a time, and moved anything older to an external. With only 256gb to spare I'm limited to maybe half of that.
So my research started when I was looking into an external in which I could use to edit directly on and was portable. This required something fast and small. I looked into USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt, to which the later provided minimal results. The best I could find were 3 or 4 heavy options for Thunderbolt external hard drives at really steep prices, considering I could buy a 1TB USB 3.0 portal external for a hundred dollars.
After more research I came upon the Seagate Thunder Bolt Adapter, STAE 121, that would allow me to convert the Seagate enclosed external drives to Thunderbolt. A little more googling and I found out I could actually use the STAE 121 with a bare 2.5' SATA hard drive. A little skeptical at first mostly because of the lack of people talking about it on the internet, I went to Best Buy to see if they had it in stock.
When I got there I found the newer version, the Seagate Thunderbolt Adapter For Backup Plus, or STAE128. A little confused, I tried to google it but found nothing. I bought it, and a Thunderbolt plug by Apple.
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Coming from the regular Macbook Pro with a 750gb hard drive I wasn't used to worrying about space. I had to move all of my music to an external and reduced the amount of photos I could work on at a time. Since I scan my photos to raw uncompressed TIFF files at a fairly high DPI, the files are quite large. I used to keep about six months to a years worth of scanned negatives on my laptop at a time, and moved anything older to an external. With only 256gb to spare I'm limited to maybe half of that.
So my research started when I was looking into an external in which I could use to edit directly on and was portable. This required something fast and small. I looked into USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt, to which the later provided minimal results. The best I could find were 3 or 4 heavy options for Thunderbolt external hard drives at really steep prices, considering I could buy a 1TB USB 3.0 portal external for a hundred dollars.
After more research I came upon the Seagate Thunder Bolt Adapter, STAE 121, that would allow me to convert the Seagate enclosed external drives to Thunderbolt. A little more googling and I found out I could actually use the STAE 121 with a bare 2.5' SATA hard drive. A little skeptical at first mostly because of the lack of people talking about it on the internet, I went to Best Buy to see if they had it in stock.
When I got there I found the newer version, the Seagate Thunderbolt Adapter For Backup Plus, or STAE128. A little confused, I tried to google it but found nothing. I bought it, and a Thunderbolt plug by Apple.
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At first I thought I would need to use a SATA cable to connect my hard drive, but it actually plugged right into it.
I'm using a Seagate Momentus 7200rpm 500gb hard drive which I pulled from my old Macbook Pro. I don't have any benchmarks from when that was installed internally, but I did find a few through google and this seems to be about the average.
My results using the same hard drive and the Seagate Thunderbolt Adapter STAE128 were very close to that.
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Compared to my 2TB Western Digital External HDD USB2.0.
and for fun, compared to the internal 256gb SSD that's inside my Macbook Retina.
Overall I'm definitely happy with the STAE128. I get to use my SATA 2.5' hard drives that I have laying around, I get speeds that match internal speeds, it's portable and self powered, and best of all it was only 99(+99(+99(+50 for the Thunderbolt cable). The price alone beats any of the other Thunderbolt options out right now.
Next up, installing and booting Windows 7 off the STAE128 Thunderbolt drive.
UPDATE:
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I successfully installed, and am now running, Windows 7 from my Thunderbolt external hard drive. I followed these directions and it worked perfectly.
