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MiniStation™ Thunderbolt offers easy plug-and-play storage, featuring Thunderbolt 1 interface for unparalleled transfer speeds and a USB port for universal connectivity. With speeds up to 10 Gbps, MiniStation Thunderbolt offers speeds 2X FASTER than USB 3.0. Perfect as a PC* or Mac® portable hard drive, the MiniStation Thunderbolt offers one of the fastest connection interfaces available.

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Overview

MiniStation Thunderbolt is a high performance portable storage and backup device that offers storage and extremely fast file transfer speeds.

Thunderbolt interface delivers extremely fast transfer speeds up to 10 Gbps for Mac users
USB 3.0 offers universal connectivity for Windows® PCs
Plug-and-play setup provides easy to use storage and quick capacity expansion
Pre-formatted for Mac
Time Machine® support offers scheduled backups for protecting Mac computers

UNPARALLELED SPEED

The MiniStation Thunderbolt portable hard drive features the revolutionary Thunderbolt storage technology, raising the bar on how you transfer, store and transport data. Delivering speeds up to an amazing 10 Gbps**, this portable Thunderbolt drive uses the fastest interface available, 2X FASTER than USB 3.0, ideal for creative professionals and multimedia enthusiasts. Additionally, daisy-chain up to six Thunderbolt devices to maximize use of a single port†.

It was just last week that Runic Games officially released their highly anticipated Torchlight 2 RPG for Windows. Torchlight 2 for mac os. In the meantime, it seems that gamers who use the Linux platform have not been forgotten too and support for Linux will be added in the future. According to Runic Games’ CEO, Max Schaefer (via ), he revealed that the Mac OS version of Torchlight 2 is on the agenda of things to do, but unfortunately it is still a couple of months away from being completed at the very least. Unfortunately for Mac OS gamers, if Torchlight 2 is a game you would love to play on your computer and don’t want to have to shell out money for Boot Camp and Windows, it looks like you will be in for a wait. This is pretty disappointing news for Mac OS gamers who were hoping to get their hands on the game in a timely manner, but we guess better late than never, right?

EASY TO USE STORAGE
MiniStation Thunderbolt provides reliable, easy to use portable storage to quickly expand the capacity of your PC or Mac computer with Thunderbolt support and universal USB 3.0 plug-and-play connectivity.

USB COMPATIBILITY
Coupled with the lightning-fast Thunderbolt interface is a USB 3.0 port for universal connectivity and backwards compatibility with USB 2.0. The MiniStation Thunderbolt portable hard drive is pre-formatted for Mac computers but can easily be reformatted for use with PCs*.

TIME MACHINE BACKUP
The MiniStation Thunderbolt portable hard drive is pre-formatted for use with Mac and compatible with Time Machine® for complete data backup. Schedule backups and automatically protect your important ﬁles with this powerful Mac portable hard drive.

Specifications

Number of drives	1
Drive interface	SATA 3 Gbps
Hard drive sizes	1 TB, 2 TB

Thunderbolt Interface

Standards compliance	Thunderbolt
Data transfer rates	10 Gbps*
Number of ports	1

* 10 Gbps is the maximum transfer rate derived from the specifications of the Thunderbolt technology. Actual transfer rates will vary depending upon environmental factors. Data rates, features and performance may vary based on the configuration of your system and other factors.

Standards compliance	USB 3.0 / USB 2.0
Data transfer rates	5 Gbps* (USB 3.0) 480 Mbps* (USB 2.0)
Connector type	Micro B
Number of ports	1

* 480 Mbps and 5 Gbps are the maximum transfer rates derived from the specifications of the Universal Serial Bus 2.0 and 3.0. Actual transfer rates will vary depending upon environmental factors. Data rates, features and performance may vary based on the configuration of your system and other factors.

Other

Dimensions (L x W x H)	5.12 x 3.17 x 0.91 in
Weight	0.58 lbs
Power consumption	Max 10W (Thunderbolt) Max 4.5W (USB 3.0)
Power supply	DC 5 V (Bus powered)
Client OS support	Thunderbolt: Mac OS® X 10.6 or later USB: Windows® 8 (32-bit/64-bit) Windows® 7 (32-bit/64-bit) Windows Vista® (32-bit/64-bit) Windows® XP Mac OS® X 10.5 or later
Box contents	MiniStation Thunderbolt Thunderbolt Cable USB 3.0 Cable Warranty Statement

Resources

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Downloads

Portable Thunderbolt Drives For Mac Computers

Documentation

File Size	Post Date	Version	OS Support	Notes
View Site	2016-25-04	MiniStation Thunderbolt User's Manual
Download	2016-25-04	Reformatting Guide for DriveStation / Ministation

Utilities

File Size	Post Date	Version	OS Support	Notes
Download	2017-17-04	Mac OS and Windows icons for HD-PATU3

Variations

MiniStation Thunderbolt 1 TB

MiniStation Thunderbolt 2 TB

Best portable external drives for your Mac or PC

With more and more laptops and devices being equipped with flash memory, that often means it becomes too expensive to get a good amount of storage built-in.

And, with so many more of us travelling around for work, working from home or needing to use more than one machine, it's more important than ever to have an external drive of sorts.

Portable Thunderbolt Drives For Mac Catalina

Thankfully, there's a lot of them around. And most of the portable options are small enough to go in a pocket.

Portable Thunderbolt Drives For Macbook Pro

There's both SSD (solid state) and HDD (more traditional style hard-drive), with the former being a bit more expensive, but also faster, smaller and more portable. They're also more likely to last you a long time because there are no moving parts. For editing movies and photos on an external drive, nothing really gets the job done like an SSD.

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We've tested each of the following, using each of them to edit 4K video footage in Final Cut Pro, keeping the original files on the external drive, and each of them performed really well, wi