External Thunderbolt Enclosure?

[Josh Kahane]

Hi

Is it possible to buy an empty thunderbolt enabled HDD enclosure or are they not available yet?

Thanks.

 

[MCAsan]

At Newegg they only have variations of SATA or USB for external enclosures.

They have for $379: Seagate GoFlex STBC3000102 3 TB 3.5" External Hard Drive - Retail - Black

LaCie and Buffalo also make external thunderbolt drive packages.

 

[peskaa]

I've been looking, and so far the answer is no.

There are a handful of Thunderbolt enabled drives out there, but they are usually double-disk affairs (such as the Western Digital) or SSD (and very expensive SSDs at that). Nothing is enclosure only

Seagate offer an a Thunderbolt adapter for their external drives (GoFlex desktop and GoFlex portable), but again these are rather expensive (circa £150 and £100 respectively, just for the adapters).

 

[MCAsan]

Buffalo seems to be the cheapest portable.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-pla-_-NA-_-NA

 

[CASLondon]

Hi

Is it possible to buy an empty thunderbolt enabled HDD enclosure or are they not available yet?

Thanks.

I'm not a drobo user, so I can't speak to this, but these come empty.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/21/drobo-mini-drobo-5d-thunderbot-drives/

I feel like i heard something from OWC about possible thunderbolt stuff later this year. There is def. something odd about this connectivity, licensing, etc, because so far we only have G Tech, Promise, and Lacie options with disks filled