Be warned: Apple released a new version of this adapter (model number A2119) in August 2019 that supports HDMI 2.0. For an 8K display, you need an HDMI 2.1 cable with support for 48Gbps bandwidth, such as the Belkin Ultra HD HDMI 2.1 Cable ( $28/ £42 on Amazon)įor other Macs, Apple offers the USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter, a $69/£75 device that also provides a USB-A port and a USB-C port that’s for charging only. The M2 Pro/Max 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro has an HDMI 2.1 port and can run a 4K display at 240Hz, or up to an 8K display at 60Hz.

Keep in mind that the port supports HDMI 2.0, so the maximum resolution and refresh rate it can run is 4k at 60Hz. You can use a regular HDMI cable like the Amazon Basic HDMI cable ( $17/ £12 on Amazon) and plug it in. However there are a few enclosures out there that do weird stuff like change the apparent sector size of the drive breaking attempts to read them outside the enclosure.If you have the 14- or 16-inch M1 Pro/Max MacBook Pro or Mac Studio, they have a full-sized HDMI 2.0 port. It may be possible to remove the drive from the enclosure and connect it via a different enclosure/adapter. I badly need to restore my new Mac so your help would be greatly appreciated. If you want to connect the drive without opening it then it's probablly your only reasonable option. I would have done so through the Thunderbolt port but the adaptor for that is too expensive for me at the moment. Unfortunately there there are a shedload of unscrupulous sellers who will sell cables/adapters with virtually any combination of connectors without telling thier customers that in the vast majority of cases such a cable/adapter is useless or even harmful. It's not that it would be impossible to build such an adapter but the market is small, the engineering work in developing the converter would be non-trivial and there may well be performance issues.Ī thunderbolt to firewire adapter OTOH can be made by bolting together existing chips.īe EXTREMELY careful when buying on ebay or from third party sellers on Amazon. Unfortunately I don't think such an adapter exists and if it did exist I would not expect it to be cheap.

I need to connect a FireWire 800 external hard drive to a MacBook Pro early 2013 through its USB 3 port.

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