What model / age of Mac are you using?

Off the top of my head the Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 is about £45 and the Thunderbolt 2 to Firewire 800 is about £25

Thanks
Dan

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

What model / age of Mac are you using?

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
2.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 1536 MB

In reply to a post by danielhyde:

Off the top of my head the Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 is about £45 and the Thunderbolt 2 to Firewire 800 is about £25

I think the eSATA adaptor was about half that! Also, I wasn't sure how much use I was going to make of the RAID box so probably wouldn't have paid seventy odd quid.

Somewhere there's going to be a bottleneck no matter how fast my cables are. I think we're saying that's my RAID 5 write speed for copying and I bet my Mac for rendering large photo files.

Yeah, also when spending that much you could spend a little more and get a new raid box that has USB 3 or C.
A decent RAID 5 should be able to easily hit 70-100MB/s

Thanks
Dan