The apple md862zma 05m thunderbolt cable supports blazing fast data transfer with two independent channels of 10 gbps each use the apple thunderbolt cable to connect your thunderbolt equipped peripherals to your imac mac mini macbook pro or macbook air with thunderbolt you get superfast data transfer speeds and huge expansion capabilities it features two 10 gbps data channels per port which means data transfer is up to twice as fast as usb 3 and up to 12 times faster than firewire 800