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Data transfer: Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt

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marddin

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Is there a way to connect 2 thunderbolt devices (Retina to iMac) and transfer data quickly?

I'm not interested in using target disk mode as this requires shutting down etc..
I thought you could just connect 2 devices and it would show up as a device.

Does anybody know of any utility to make a quick thunderbolt to thunderbolt data transfer?

Thanks for your help everyone!
Martin
 
rick3000

rick3000

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May 6, 2008
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You cannot boot the internal drive to two devices at the same time. One of them has to be in Target Disk Mode, if the startup/shutdown time is too long you could use an external Thunderbolt drive and eject it to move it between the two.
 
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FireWire2

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Oct 12, 2008
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marddin said:
Is there a way to connect 2 thunderbolt devices (Retina to iMac) and transfer data quickly?

I'm not interested in using target disk mode as this requires shutting down etc..
I thought you could just connect 2 devices and it would show up as a device.

Does anybody know of any utility to make a quick thunderbolt to thunderbolt data transfer?

Thanks for your help everyone!
Martin
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Thunderbolt is a host bus. You can not have 2x hosts in a data bus

How about using some sort of portable/transferable data set.

Source: Up to 16TB RAID5 volume (5x 4TB HDD) in eBOX-TeUS
Once data loaded. Transfer the HDD set via sneaker net, postal, fedex, ups...

Target: Insert the data loaded 16TB RAID5 into another eBOX-TeSU

This is what my clients use to transfer data from shooting site to studio
 
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