Whiskers

Picked this up on Newegg and got it yesterday:

http://reviews.cnet.com/2300-9150_7-10012863.html

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822165478

Buy it if you have a Mac with TB!! Buy it now. Its incredible. Speed is awesome, works great in Bootcamp.








You still here? Go!!! Go now!! Buy it!!!

#1 STUNNA

Fuck that! $230!?!?!? You can get a USB 3.0 Portable 1TB drive for $110 or less. I don't think a portable hard drive is going to max out USB 3.0 bandwidth and not worth the extra $$$$ for TB. We don't all have $$$$$ like you wsklar........

speedemon90

lol yea... so expensive...

I'll stick to my slow 1tb usb 2.0 device for now.

Whiskers

Lol $230...Cheapos. Its a lot faster then USB 3 and runs VM's quite nicely.

CLpower

buffalo = booo

jupitersolo

I thought you liked the Seagate you showed me on FB?

Whiskers

??

#1 STUNNA

What they need to do is just sell the thunderbolt to sata 3 with sata power setup that they made for this and I'd be all over it.

Whiskers

40 GB in about 10 minutes....Yeah!!

TeknoKing

pure waste of $$$, as your computer/bus/hdd factors substantially limit the throughput.

It's like buying a Ferrari to race it in Midtown during peak hours.

I like my SSDs and eSata options. where is the rush?

doopstr

whisky
Can you do a compare of the thunderbolt port vs USB3?

Whiskers

Not at all. Its fast enough to runs VM Boxes off of and the SSD's are not cheap.

I have. Thunderbolt wins.

TeknoKing

True, makes sense.

I would be more interested in fast and inexpensive NAS servers :/

jupitersolo

OK, but those aren't portable.

Whiskers

For $200 its worth it. Sure I would love a SSD TB drive, but its not needed.

TeknoKing

Thunderbolt makes sense for Apple... I don't own Apple products, except the iPhone/iPad.

For VMware it's a great portable option. I just got 256GB Samsung 830 SSD for $190; this is my choice for portability with sata. Granted, it is not 1TB

Whiskers

Esata is much slower then thunderbolt or even USB 3

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/com...s-esata-931343

Windows 7 laptops coming with thunderbolt soon.

TeknoKing

^yes, but I'm hot swappable, I use sata iii directly.

but it would be lovely to have thunderbolt on a PC laptop. It's tough to compete with 10Gbps thunderbolt. Do you know when it make hit the market for PC geeks?

edit: http://www.extremetech.com/computing...d-in-the-water

40Gbps? kwaazy.

Whiskers

The motherboards are out.

Windows is not hot swappable though.