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I need to connect a FireWire 800 external hard drive to a MacBook Pro early 2013 through its USB 3 port. Unfortunately I don't think such an adapter exists and if it did exist I would not expect it to be cheap. 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. A thunderbolt to firewire adapter OTOH can be made by bolting together existing chips. I bought a connector on eBay Be EXTREMELY careful when buying on ebay or from third party sellers on Amazon.
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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. I would have done so through the Thunderbolt port but the adaptor for that is too expensive for me at the moment. If you want to connect the drive without opening it then it's probablly your only reasonable option. I badly need to restore my new Mac so your help would be greatly appreciated. It may be possible to remove the drive from the enclosure and connect it via a different enclosure/adapter. 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.