I have an external 2Tb drive (WD Studio Mac edition with metal casing, USB 2 and FW800).
I will be buying a MBA with 256Gb SSD. I won't keep my entire iphoto library on my MBA (80+ Gb) so I would point iphoto to my library on the external drive (which I have backed up on another drive).
Now, I can just access the WD through USB2 or I could fork out for a TB to FW adapter.
Question is whether I will get the full FW800 speed I'm enjoying right now on my iMac (which has a true FW800 port). Or will be ok with just USB 2 ?
Would USB2 be fast enough to run Wow from it ?
Of course, if I decide to connect an external display to the MBA, I'd be out of TB ports...
I will be buying a MBA with 256Gb SSD. I won't keep my entire iphoto library on my MBA (80+ Gb) so I would point iphoto to my library on the external drive (which I have backed up on another drive).
Now, I can just access the WD through USB2 or I could fork out for a TB to FW adapter.
Question is whether I will get the full FW800 speed I'm enjoying right now on my iMac (which has a true FW800 port). Or will be ok with just USB 2 ?
Would USB2 be fast enough to run Wow from it ?
Of course, if I decide to connect an external display to the MBA, I'd be out of TB ports...