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Macworld 2012: WDC Shows Off MyBook Thunderbolt Duo
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In a large room featuring a high density of wireless devices, using wired devices wards off many problems.
Recall Jobs asking reporters to turn off their WiFi devices because over 500 were competing for bandwidth needed for the presentation.
Most likely the wired mouse to keep people from running off with a $70 Magic Mouse every 5 minutes.
To all that crap inside an enclosure, not having to fill up your desk with boxes and cables. Not to mention all the extra electric sockets you would need to power it all
Having said that I like the speed and possibility this ADDS
Where can you buy this drive? I can't see them for sale anywhere.
EDIT: By the way, the 3rd party people are taking way too long rolling out the thunderbolt-ware.
EDIT: By the way, the 3rd party people are taking way too long rolling out the thunderbolt-ware.
Maybe I am wrong...but aren't these TB speeds faster than the (most) internal SATA drives on the iMacs/Macbooks (and most Wintels)? If so, then the bottleneck would be the source drive as well as any overhead the OS is doing to copy/move the files. These tests are also probably after a lot of tuning, tweaking, and getting top end hardware all around (meaning the computer, too).
My bet, however, is that these TB drives will still be much much more expensive than the USB 3.0 drives that have been on the market for over a year now.
I'd love to have the theoretical blazing speed of TB and USB 3.0...but I'll take USB 3.0's current, realistic, 2x-4x speed over USB 2.0 right now...for a VERY cheap price....about $120 for a 1TB USB 3.0 drive.
My bet, however, is that these TB drives will still be much much more expensive than the USB 3.0 drives that have been on the market for over a year now.
I'd love to have the theoretical blazing speed of TB and USB 3.0...but I'll take USB 3.0's current, realistic, 2x-4x speed over USB 2.0 right now...for a VERY cheap price....about $120 for a 1TB USB 3.0 drive.
I've had two Western Digital externals. The first lasted a while, but the power supply crapped out after the warranty expired.
The second was a FW800 drive and the controller board died within warranty, but I would have risked losing my data which was a backup of my computer I just sold. So I just ditched the enclosure, the drive worked fine.
The second was a FW800 drive and the controller board died within warranty, but I would have risked losing my data which was a backup of my computer I just sold. So I just ditched the enclosure, the drive worked fine.
People who have no time to post nonsense in these forums.
You just see, that Intel has no SB-versions ready for the MP. And regarding FCP: Is X not new enough for you!?
Fast yes, but 8 drives in RAID 0 is living dangerously. I would like to see tests in more real world configurations.
Zero data integrity...
WD's setup is extremely bad for normal use. Each MyBook setup for RAID 0 meaning both drives in each MyBook are additive with zero redundancy, if one disk goes bad both lose data completely. Then they stripped them RAID 0 between the 4 MyBook's using OS X software RAID. So any one of the 8 disks fails, the entire 24TB's is scrubbed and unusable.
Once Tenscompliment's ZFS comes out (very soon) then you will have a ZFS option to protect those drives. What we really need is some dumb multi-bay box that holds 4-6 hard drives and provides TB interface. All 4-6 drives would show up in OS X as individual drives then you add them to a ZFS Disk Pool and set it up for ZRAID (single parity or double parity -- one or two disks can fail without data loss) and however many snapshots you want to make.
I was looking at eSATA 4-6 bay external drive bays and found they run around $124 and a PCIx eSATA card for a MacPro. The only other cost is the disks themselves which is a PITA right now with the disk shortages.
But if someone sells a dumb 4-6 bay drive container that includes 2 TB ports and doesn't try to do hardware RAID, etc. I will jump all over that!
The nice thing about ZFS is it is rock solid and can handle any type of drive. MacPro internal SATA, eSATA, TB, Firewire, USB, etc.
Geez, I remember my old ISP servicing a couple thousand dial up customers on a single TB of disk space spread across multiple servers. Now you can have that in a laptop! How far we have come...
WD's setup is extremely bad for normal use. Each MyBook setup for RAID 0 meaning both drives in each MyBook are additive with zero redundancy, if one disk goes bad both lose data completely. Then they stripped them RAID 0 between the 4 MyBook's using OS X software RAID. So any one of the 8 disks fails, the entire 24TB's is scrubbed and unusable.
Once Tenscompliment's ZFS comes out (very soon) then you will have a ZFS option to protect those drives. What we really need is some dumb multi-bay box that holds 4-6 hard drives and provides TB interface. All 4-6 drives would show up in OS X as individual drives then you add them to a ZFS Disk Pool and set it up for ZRAID (single parity or double parity -- one or two disks can fail without data loss) and however many snapshots you want to make.
I was looking at eSATA 4-6 bay external drive bays and found they run around $124 and a PCIx eSATA card for a MacPro. The only other cost is the disks themselves which is a PITA right now with the disk shortages.
But if someone sells a dumb 4-6 bay drive container that includes 2 TB ports and doesn't try to do hardware RAID, etc. I will jump all over that!
The nice thing about ZFS is it is rock solid and can handle any type of drive. MacPro internal SATA, eSATA, TB, Firewire, USB, etc.
Geez, I remember my old ISP servicing a couple thousand dial up customers on a single TB of disk space spread across multiple servers. Now you can have that in a laptop! How far we have come...
That is an SSD.
I am talking about the bandwidth though an external buss.
If you are saying an external RAID setup of multiple Intel 720's via TB... then!
