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LEVENDIZ

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Apr 10, 2010
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I'm after a thunderbolt drive. It will be used to store video/photos from my GOPRO/Camera until i get home and move them to my other computer.

What external thunderbolt drives do you recommend? Something portable would be great!
 
I have a bunch of Seagate GoFlex drives. I like being able change the interface depending upon which computer I am using at the time. For example... my wife's 2009 iMac only has FW800 as its most performant interface, while mine has Thunderbolt. With GoFlex... I can use the same drive on both computers using the fastest interface available.

BTW: Thunderbolt is spectacular overall. One issue that you may not like is that the Seagate Thunderbolt adapter is quite a bit larger than the USB 2.0, USB 3.0, and FW800 adapters... so you may not want to use USB 3.0 when traveling.

/Jim
 
LaCie Little Big Disk, LaCie d2, LaCie 2big, LaCie Rugged Disk.
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If you're after an SSD, there're also the elgato SSD.
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I have a bunch of Seagate GoFlex drives. I like being able change the interface depending upon which computer I am using at the time. For example... my wife's 2009 iMac only has FW800 as its most performant interface, while mine has Thunderbolt. With GoFlex... I can use the same drive on both computers using the fastest interface available.

BTW: Thunderbolt is spectacular overall. One issue that you may not like is that the Seagate Thunderbolt adapter is quite a bit larger than the USB 2.0, USB 3.0, and FW800 adapters... so you may not want to use USB 3.0 when traveling.

/Jim

The LaCie Rugged comes in several SSD configs, and has both USB 3.0 as well as Thunderbolt ports.

This will let you connect the drive to almost any Mac.
 
I have a bunch of Seagate GoFlex drives. I like being able change the interface depending upon which computer I am using at the time. For example... my wife's 2009 iMac only has FW800 as its most performant interface, while mine has Thunderbolt. With GoFlex... I can use the same drive on both computers using the fastest interface available.

BTW: Thunderbolt is spectacular overall. One issue that you may not like is that the Seagate Thunderbolt adapter is quite a bit larger than the USB 2.0, USB 3.0, and FW800 adapters... so you may not want to use USB 3.0 when traveling.

/Jim

I tried few solutions and went with Seagate for this exact reason. And being able to have few drives to expand or different projects is a big plus down the road. For desktop TB adapter I get about 180 read and write, not too shabby for good old spinning drive. And if you want 300+ throw a ssd on it :)
 
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