Who needs the old fashioned Mac Pro! Now I can see what Apple is holding back on the new Mac Pro and maybe even new versions of Final Cut Pro.
Actually, the WD 3T Aluminium USB2/FW800 externals are quite good drives, far better than Lacie and less expensive to boot.
Having lost much date due to using Lacie as back-up drives, I've been using WD for two years now in 500G/1T and 2T formats - I've had no failures thus far - further, they carry a reasonable warranty should the unit fail, and the actual internal HDD has a full three year warranty, regardless of the enclosure, its the HDD you should worry about.
The individual drives within each unit are user serviceable/replaceable and can be configured in either RAID 0 or RAID 1 configurations.
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.
Price: A billion dollars.
Just like the rest of Thunderbolt stuff.
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...
I'd prefer something similar to the Promise enclosure as well. However, I'd imagine the enclosure alone would retail for at least ~$800.
Well we have had 2 of the 3tb drives fail at work, one of them the hdd was fine but the bridge in the enclosure failed and the other one both the bridge and hdd failed due to heat. I have also personally had one of the 1tb WD drives fail, once again it was the drive and enclosure that failed.
I now use a Stardom iTank hotswap enclosure with a hitachi 3tb drive installed and it runs much cooler, twice as quiet and actually has faster transfer speeds. I also have a 5 year warranty on the enclosure and a 3 year warranty on the drive itself. I will never go back to prebuilt WD, lacie or seagate external drives.
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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.
I always bought Hitachi drives and until now not one single disk failed.
Except when I connected 3 of those 2.5" disks to a Usb port in Indonesia, all three of them failed after a while, but that could also be because of a rather cheap USB/FW enclosure.(Too high voltage)
I agree with others that for now these drives/enclosures are too expensive for normal consumers.
But hey, do normal consumers need the speed?
Hey guys, I was wondering if I use the Thunderbolt port on my MacBook Pro to connect to a DVI monitor (I have a Samsung 27" SA950) using a converter adapter, is there any way I can still use a Thunderbolt hard drive like this one?
the little stand that reflects the speaker sound forward sounds silly, but it does really work surprising well.
Maybe for the iPhone5, apple will actually do a little bit towards function over form and put the speakers in the right place so one doesn't need that sort of product in the future!
I just want an enclosure so I can put an SSD in one and not have to mess around fitting one internally on a 2011 27" iMac for the boot drive.
Thanks! Though, an empty enclosure where I could choose my own SSD would have been preferred.. I'll look into that..
Yeah i think we will be waiting a little while longer before we see empty single slot thunderbolt enclosures.
If a 2 drive/6TB model is $500, like the FW800 job, I'm sold.
Why do I doubt it will be that cheap?
I just want an enclosure so I can put an SSD in one and not have to mess around fitting one internally on a 2011 27" iMac for the boot drive.
I just want an enclosure so I can put an SSD in one and not have to mess around fitting one internally on a 2011 27" iMac for the boot drive.
Same . . . !!!
I have two 4TB FW800 models (one backs up the other since both are RAID 0) and I'm getting close to maxing them, so I'll be interested in these 6TB models. I'm willing to pay a bit of a premium for TB (say $50 a drive), but if it's more like $100 or even $150 a drive, I'll stick with FW800.
I used to do the "buy a little more storage" trip, but learned that in the long run that it's cheaper and much less hassle to double or quadruple capacity at each step. (Especially if your new setup has empty drive slots - so that in six months or a year you can buy bigger drives at a better price per GB.)
This is especially true if you consider that drive slots (or T-Bolt daisy chain positions) are a very limited resource.