So about this new thunderbolt light peak technology........

[applefanboy4739]

How long do you think it'll be before we see thunderbolt flash drives?

 

[laxman101]

How long do you think it'll be before we see thunderbolt flash drives?

I'm more interested in getting thunderbolt accessories that aren't 12 TB external drives first... I want my LaCie little big disk! Hopefully by summer of next year for the flash drives...

 

[Lennyvalentin]

Flash drives are commodity items, thunderbolt is very much a premium feature right now. It wouldn't make very much sense to stick a thunderbolt interface on a flash drive, because the interface controller IC is currently extremely large and bulky, and thus expensive. It also draws a fairly significant amount of power right now, meaning it'd need a sizeable metal casing to dissipate heat.

All this would make for a very pricey flashdrive, sort of the anti-thesis of all other such drives on the market, and sales would most likely be terrible.

 

[ZipZap]

It may take a while but thunderbolt will give way to USB 3. When the whole world is on the USB 3 standard and there are sooooo many accessories....TB will just fade away like firewire.

 

[admanimal]

TB will just fade away like firewire.

By "fade away like firewire" I hope you mean still be included on most Macs due to it being superior to USB (in the case of FW800 vs. USB2). I always buy FW800 devices over USB2 if I have the choice, and will probably do the same thing with TB vs USB3.

 

[spidey3]

It may take a while but thunderbolt will give way to USB 3. When the whole world is on the USB 3 standard and there are sooooo many accessories....TB will just fade away like firewire.

I don't think so. After 3 years USB 3.0 is still not widely adopted, mainly because eSATA [and miniSAS] are better for drives, and for everything else the higher speed / power isn't needed.

Spidey!!!