Thunderbolt or Firewire

[lsvtecjohn3]

I need help on deciding on whether I should buy Thunderbolt or Firewire 800 external hard drive.

I plan on buying a 6 TB hd soon to store my iTunes library on. My library is a little bit bigger than 1 TB and growing. I have over 10,000 pictures i also want to back up, and I want to download all my videos I have on my video camera and store them all in one place. Right now I have 550Gb left from my 2TB HD on my iMac.

I'm going to configure it to RAID 1

Should I go Thunderbolt because of the speed and because it's the newer technology? Or should I go Firewire because its cheaper and once I get everything over to the external speed won't matter.

 

[AcesHigh87]

IMO for what you want FW 800 would be more than fast enough and a fraction of the cost of thunderbolt.

 

[Ifti]

I agree with the above. I also still use FW800 drives and find them more then enough for my uses, including some video editing using FW800 as scratch disks.

 

[lsvtecjohn3]

Ok thanks for the responses. I thought the FireWire would be a good option.

 

[And1ss]

Yeah stick to FW for now. Fast enough for your needs.

Thunderbolt is just a bit too expensive right now.