Firewire 800 to thunderbolt Adapter

does the speed go down?
I got a harddisk with firewire 800 out and my mbp retina doesn't have a firewire 800 fit.
I saw the adapter from firewire 800 to thunderbolt. but do you still keep the speed that firewire 800 has?

If your disk and Mac both have USB 3.0, the disk will run faster on USB than on Thunderbolt to FireWire.
R/W disk speeds:
USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt about equal at ~110 MB/s
Firewire about half at ~60 to ~70 MB/s
USB 2.0 about a third at ~35 to ~40 MB/s
http://www.macworld.com/article/2039427/how-fast-is-usb-3-0-really-.html

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