External thunderbolt recommendations

Just thought I'd post a Blackmagic test from my LaCie TB enclosure w/ the Samsung 850 evo drive installed.

A little under a week, and I don't think I could go back to the speed (or lack thereof) of the internal spinner in my 2013 iMac.

[[ It's going to be faster than any mechanical drive set up, and it is currently on sale:
http://www.ncix.com/detail/angelbird...00289-1360.htm ]]

Cough!
That's an "on-sale" price?

You'd do far better by buying a "bare" SSD and an external enclosure, and "rolling your own" drive.

Sanlitun said:

For now rather than buying a TB2 enclosure I am thinking about one of the Angelbird USB3 512 SSD drives.

It's going to be faster than any mechanical drive set up, and it is currently on sale:

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If you want a compact, fast external USB3 SSD, you could get one of these cheaper than that Angelbird one...

http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RWXVRW8/

triple-tap said:

Just thought I'd post a Blackmagic test from my LaCie TB enclosure w/ the Samsung 850 evo drive installed.

A little under a week, and I don't think I could go back to the speed (or lack thereof) of the internal spinner in my 2013 iMac.

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I get similar results for a 850 pro in an OWC Thunderbay, just 25 MBps faster or so.

For comparison, in the same enclosure and using Disk Utility to RAID0 two seagate 7200 rpm ST2000NM0033 2TB drives, I get 325 MBps reads and writes. Thats 4TBs of storage with similar performance and 5 years of warranty for less money than a decent 512 GB SSD.... just saying

TB2 - Sixteen drives

This maybe over kill, but certainly wil put ANY need of space, speed... at ease

16x drives tray-less

http://www.datoptic.com/ec/16-bay-thunderbolt2-raid-quiet-tower.html


2nd though! Who would need this much of storage - Lol

Lacie Rugged

I have used a 256g LaCie Rugged SSD based Thunderbolt drive as my BootCamp drive for the nMP for the past year. It boots well, and I have had no problems with it. Thunderbolt Cable to disk, and hid the disk up on a shelf under my desk. If/when it fails, I will most likely just replace the SSD.

I have 256 ssd in the nMP for OSX, and the LaCie for BootCamp. I keep most data mirrored on a USB3 drive hooked to the nMP, mirrored to a NAS.

I keep another USB3 1t drive for TM backup of the OSX disk. Hmm, I need to figure a backup to NAS of the BootCamp now that I think about it.