Would be even better without the power cables. Where are the cool Thunderbolt setups with 2.5" HD drives?
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Macworld 2012: WDC Shows Off MyBook Thunderbolt Duo
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Will there ever be cheap thunderbolt pen drives or will it always be much more expensive than usb?
Will there ever be cheap thunderbolt pen drives or will it always be much more expensive than usb?
Absolutely. 9 to 5 Mac posted a demo of a MBA hooked up to a TB HDD & accelerator card editing 4K video via Boot Camp. 4K! While I'm certain Apple will update the MP this spring, I also think it will be the last.
If a 2 drive/6TB model is $500, like the FW800 job, I'm sold.
Why do I doubt it will be that cheap?
Why do I doubt it will be that cheap?
Is there any external Thunderbolt drive available for less than $400? I'm in need of a new backup drive and Thunderbolt capabilities would be nice.
How about a company makes a CONSUMER thunderbolt peripheral, one that doesn't cost more than oh I dont know $250-300 seems fair enough.
seems cool, would love to use this with my future mac pro...(o wait.. 
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I wish they also included FW800 so I could use this with my mbp but i wonder if there will be an adaptor..
)I wish they also included FW800 so I could use this with my mbp but i wonder if there will be an adaptor..
You can do RAID 10 - run each drive pair in hardware RAID 1, and do software RAID 0 in the host to stripe them.
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You do understand that it's an investment right? People don't generally just buy 24TB at once. You buy a drive now, when it's closed to full, you buy a second one and you daisy chained to the first one and so on. Now, you don't have to worry about requiring more than one TB port on your computer and you'll still get up to 10Gbps bidirectional.
They did this for pure marketing, to show off the speed and the possible setups that people can choose.
There are some people who doesn't need redundancy and just need fast speed for working with massive files. They can copy from a RAID 1 or 5 setups to a RAID0 setup and once done, pull it back to RAID1 or 5.
Well, I only see four cables that are daisy chained from one device to the next, but $200 still is a lot.
A 1TB Seagate GoFlex Desk drive ($129) with a Thunderbolt adapter (due to be released next month for about $189), and a Thunderbolt cable ($49) will cost less than $400.
It should be about 3x the speed of FW800, which is about 2.5x the speed of USB 2.0.
Consumer TB disk drive?
I agree with someone who raised this question, "Why doesn't someone introduce an affordable TB drive"?
We need one for those needing just a couple of Terabytes of storage for a fast external storage system. At least they should make the TB port compatible with eSATA or with PCIe devices. There are lots of external video devices that would be nice to use.
There are a few interface adapters coming out, but are still expensive and some have serious heat problems (eSATA interface). Seems a shame to have that powerful potential in the TB interface, but still after a year still not affordable devices to use it. Now it is just an expensive Mini Display Port.
I agree with someone who raised this question, "Why doesn't someone introduce an affordable TB drive"?
We need one for those needing just a couple of Terabytes of storage for a fast external storage system. At least they should make the TB port compatible with eSATA or with PCIe devices. There are lots of external video devices that would be nice to use.
There are a few interface adapters coming out, but are still expensive and some have serious heat problems (eSATA interface). Seems a shame to have that powerful potential in the TB interface, but still after a year still not affordable devices to use it. Now it is just an expensive Mini Display Port.
No legacy ports!! That sucks!
Such a drive really needs an USB port for legacy equipment access. Either that or a network port for Ethernet/WiFi access. Such ports ought to be trivial considering all the performance hardware that needs to be added to support TB.
Such a drive really needs an USB port for legacy equipment access. Either that or a network port for Ethernet/WiFi access. Such ports ought to be trivial considering all the performance hardware that needs to be added to support TB.
naah just easier to secure. anyone can snag a wireless mouse. (lost a mouse this way in a gallery showing off digital art..)
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The last WD mybook drive I bought has a bunch of crapware that loaded via a separate partition whenever the USB was plugged in. It was extremely invasive, and I had to download additional software just to turn the stuff off. I had issues even getting their software to work as well, several reboots needed.
I'm gunshy with WD mybook drives now, hopefully they will not have the crapware partition with thunderbolt devices.
The last WD mybook drive I bought has a bunch of crapware that loaded via a separate partition whenever the USB was plugged in. It was extremely invasive, and I had to download additional software just to turn the stuff off. I had issues even getting their software to work as well, several reboots needed.
I'm gunshy with WD mybook drives now, hopefully they will not have the crapware partition with thunderbolt devices.
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MacBook to myboook, then mybook to display port to dvi adaptor. (Just make the adapter the end of the chain.)
The big caution is to never buy any device with only one thunderbolt port, you always need two do you can put the monitor at the end.
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MacBook to myboook, then mybook to display port to dvi adaptor. (Just make the adapter the end of the chain.)
The big caution is to never buy any device with only one thunderbolt port, you always need two do you can put the monitor at the end.
Oh yeah .. way to go WD!! Looking from past, WD always give you reasonable price for their product and decent quality.
Never had an external WDC that fails on me. If they can sell it for like $500 then I'm sold.
Much better value than Lacie or Pegasus. But really they should add USB port on top of Thunderbolt port. That way we can still use it with another PC which most likely still won't have Thunderbolt.
Never had an external WDC that fails on me. If they can sell it for like $500 then I'm sold.
Much better value than Lacie or Pegasus. But really they should add USB port on top of Thunderbolt port. That way we can still use it with another PC which most likely still won't have Thunderbolt.
Obviously, you didn't buy any of the WD 80 GB drives when they were new and hot.
I bought ten.
Ten failed, and were replaced.
Nine of the ten replacements failed within eight weeks.
Ten of the ten were replaced with Seagate drives - and no more problems.
Point? Every manufacturer has some designs or manufacturing runs that are lemons. No company is "always" good, nor is any company "always" bad.
It's taken 10 years, but I've started to buy WD drives again. So far, no issues. But, it's taken 10 years after the last disaster.
People who have no time to post nonsense in these forums.
Love it
and soooo true. Ooops - I just posted some nonsense Good grief. That's probably $3000 sitting there.
Holy cro if it's that cheap I'm in! My promise Pegasus is 6 TB and it cost $1700. I would expect that setup to be 5k at least.
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I would prefer some like this http://www.promise.com/storage/raid...b_m=sub_m_7&rsn1=40&rsn3=47&statistic=pegasus
WD make great internal drives but their enclosures are garbage.
WD make great internal drives but their enclosures are garbage.