How can I get the quickest file transfer speeds between a 12" rMB and 2011 iMac?

[kylera]

I imagine that a wired connection of some kind would be faster than wireless. Even so, there are different ways I could connect the two Macs. What type of connection (USB to USB, Ethernet to Ethernet, etc.) would be the fastest possible?

 

[sublunar]

I'd say USB-C to Ethernet assuming you have a decent router and cabling

 

[ryguy92000]

USB-c to THUNDERBOLT will offer the fastest trans speeds. Target disk mode the mbp2011 and off you go. Ethernet caps out at 1gb/s

 

[ApolloBoy]

USB-c to THUNDERBOLT will offer the fastest trans speeds.

Thunderbolt by itself won't work since the MacBook can only do USB 3 speed (5 Gbps). You could use a Thunderbolt to USB 3 converter on the iMac and then use one of these cables to connect it to the MacBook, but that's a pretty expensive way to do it and I'm not even sure that'd work. I think you might be better off using a USB-C Ethernet adapter to link the two.

 

[Clix Pix]

You might want to consider copying everything to an external disk drive and using that.....