That helps to preserve your existing investment in USB Mac accessories while opening options for even faster gizmos and gadgets. The USB 3.0 ports that were standard on many older models of Apple computers since 2012 are fully backward compatible with Mac USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 devices. It opened the door to much, much faster Mac compatible peripherals of all sorts at a far lower cost than comparable ThunderBolt devices.
The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Universal Serial Bus standard for many Macintosh computing peripherals was an important advancement. USB 3.0 Mac backup drives offer Macintosh users the most affordable Apple compatible storage solutions.