*** The official 2023 and 2024 Mac mini thread (it has the M2 chip, the M4 chip and everything!) ***

[HACO]

Also I just realised….those WD drives are Thunderbolt 2.

So I will need Tb2 to Tb3 adaptors. That past is not the problem, the problem is I don't know if it will work on the M4 Mac. Tb4 is backwards compatible with Tb3 but I don’t think it is to Tb2.

People who have the Ultra M2 cannot get it to work, not without some really silly work around.

Protocol-wise, TB3/4 ports are backwards compatible with TB2, any adapter should work.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Protocol-wise, TB3/4 ports are backwards compatible with TB2, any adapter should work.

There is a long Reddit thread where people are having problems with it.

The solution is £50 for the adaptor to take a chance or £150 to get a 8tb HDD and move everything over and guaranteed to work.

 

[HACO]

There is a long Reddit thread where people are having problems with it.

The solution is £50 for the adaptor to take a chance or £150 to get a 8tb HDD and move everything over and guaranteed to work.

Probably cheaper to just open up the old HDD and move the actual disk to a simple USB enclosure, should probably end up cheaper and more reliable than dealing with these expensive adapters.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Probably cheaper to just open up the old HDD and move the actual disk to a simple USB enclosure, should probably end up cheaper and more reliable than dealing with these expensive adapters.

My problem is the WD Duo drives are running in Raid, so I don’t know how it would work if I just take 1 out.