Do you use your Thunderbolt ports and if you do, for what?

[yjchua95]

I revamped my computer system, bought the newest Mac mini on the market, 2.3 GHZ intel quad core, 1TB hard drive, I all so changed all my external hard drives to thunderbolt, figured I would get that" up to 10gb of transfer speed.

Well that not what happen..it the hard drive , thunderbolt can be fast , but if you have a HHD then you may get up to 150mb transfer speed, oh what happen to the " up to 10gb download transfer speed,, the two adaptor and cable were not easy to buy thought it was a little to much for a cable but ok, I Daisy chain them and honestly I don't see much of a difference, unless I didn't turn on something or change a setting there no big difference,

So in conclusion if you can,t get the SUPER SSD, then you wasted money, I mean it faster but not what I expected. If some one has a better idea I open to it, they should really remove the " UP TO 10GB....What's your view?

10 Gb/s is the maximum theoretical speed of TB1, so they did not give misleading info. The consumer himself should have the common sense to know that a HDD TB drive can never reach 10 Gb/s (1.25 GB/s). Besides, it's very much doable to saturate the 10 Gb/s throughput of the TB1 port. Just get a Caldigit TB dock and connect all sorts of peripherals to it (a TB display, several external SSDs, or maybe even an eGPU setup).

The reason why TB hard drives exist is because they're largely still built for the 2011 MBPs that first came with the TB port and didn't have USB 3.0. Connecting a HDD over TB1 instead of USB 2 makes a huge difference, but no difference whatsoever when comparing USB 3.0 and TB1.

I have a Promise Pegasus R6 12TB striped in an RAID 0 array and easily get over 700 MB/s in both directions (5.6 Gb/s).

The TB port is largely for expansion purposes. Look at the Caldigit TB dock and Belkin TB dock and you'll know what I mean. Such expansion docks are impossible over USB.

 

[jtuppen]

Thunderbolt Monitor

I need some help figuring out what happened to my Thunderbolt monitor. I've been out of the country for a while and first day back in the office my monitor will only display the wallpaper. No icons, no folders, no mouse, nothing....

 

[yjchua95]

I need some help figuring out what happened to my Thunderbolt monitor. I've been out of the country for a while and first day back in the office my monitor will only display the wallpaper. No icons, no folders, no mouse, nothing....

With the ATD connected, go to System Preferences → Displays.

Make sure Mirroring is selected or that the ATD is your primary display.

 

[siurpeeman]

i use a thunderbolt port to connect to a monitor, though it isn't a thunderbolt display. it's a mini displayport to hdmi cable (bought when my laptop didn't have hdmi).

 

[jtuppen]

Many Thanks

With the ATD connected, go to System Preferences → Displays.

Make sure Mirroring is selected or that the ATD is your primary display.

Working now (After some adjustments) . Many thank's for the help...

 

[ltorrelles]

Using both of the Thunderbolt ports on a daily basis. Use them to connect an external monitor and a Gigabit Ethernet cable (using adapters for both).

 

[Burning Radio]

I won't use mine. Just ordered my rMBP and this will be my first Apple device with TB2 ports. They weren't a deciding factor in my purchase at all. The only thing I can see myself buying in the future is an External HD or an External BR/DVD Drive. But honestly, with 1 TB of storage internally I don't even see the need for a HD in my immediate future.

I think the USB 3.0 will be a more welcome and useful addition to my life than TB2 for me.

 

[0983275]

mDP > HDMI cable, only ever used it once.

 

[dylin]

Nothing special at the moment since i dont have any thunderbolt devices.

My TB1 port is just for an external monitor.

 

[yinz]

This was a useful thread. Thanks for asking the question, OP!

 

[jblagden]

Monitor, eGPU Eventually

Currently, I only use my MacBook Pro's Thunderbolt port for connecting a secondary monitor, but eventually I'll use it to plug in an external graphics card for Handbrake, iMovie and gaming. I'm just waiting for either Silverstone or Village Tronic to release their affordable graphics card enclosures. The trouble is that Intel doesn't want to give them the necessary licensing and certification. In an effort to convince Intel to give them the necessary licensing and certification, I've made a petition at Change.org: https://www.change.org/petitions/in...sale-of-affordable-egpu-enclosures#supporters

 

[jblagden]

Sonnet Echo Express-Graphics card/sound card?

Certainly do use a lot.
Thunderbolt Display.
Various Thunderbolt Drives for backup and extra storage.
UA Apollo audio interface (Thunderbolt option card added).
Sonnet Echo Express Pcie Chassis.

What do you use the Sonnet Echo Express chassis for?

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10 Gb/s is the maximum theoretical speed of TB1, so they did not give misleading info. The consumer himself should have the common sense to know that a HDD TB drive can never reach 10 Gb/s (1.25 GB/s). Besides, it's very much doable to saturate the 10 Gb/s throughput of the TB1 port. Just get a Caldigit TB dock and connect all sorts of peripherals to it (a TB display, several external SSDs, or maybe even an eGPU setup).

The reason why TB hard drives exist is because they're largely still built for the 2011 MBPs that first came with the TB port and didn't have USB 3.0. Connecting a HDD over TB1 instead of USB 2 makes a huge difference, but no difference whatsoever when comparing USB 3.0 and TB1.

I have a Promise Pegasus R6 12TB striped in an RAID 0 array and easily get over 700 MB/s in both directions (5.6 Gb/s).

The TB port is largely for expansion purposes. Look at the Caldigit TB dock and Belkin TB dock and you'll know what I mean. Such expansion docks are impossible over USB.

Exactly! Thunderbolt is mostly for expansion. USB 3 is just a bit slower than SATA, so hard drives would be a waste of Thunderbolt's bandwidth. External graphics cards will be a great use for Thunderbolt as soon as affordable enclosures are released and Thunderbolt drivers for graphics cards are written.