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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Optical drive to MacPro
Date: 11 Dec 2016 02:53:04 GMT
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On 2016-12-11, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <584cb4ae$0$55890$c3e8da3$33881b6a@news.astraweb.com> 
>   JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> Since the 2013 MacPro comes with no peripherals, one has to add them
>> manually. Got a SATA to Thunderbolt disk box to support my 4 drives.
>
>> Now, I need to get an optical drive.
>
>> I have a thunderbolt port free on the disk box and on the Mac,  But all
>> 4 USB2 ports are taken.
>
> The 2013 Mac Pro has USB 3.0 ports and each port supports 127 devices.
> Since USB 3 supports 5Gbps, that is far more than any optical drive is
> capable of.

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