Well thunderbolt wasn't developed for external storage. That was never the point it is external PCI Express if anything to piggy back loads of protocols.
Keep in mind Intel is responsible for both Thunderbolt and USB 3.0. The latter is meant for the majority of external storage. It is just expensive to build an PCIe SATA bridge along with the expensive Thunderbolt chip. Plus expensive active cables. That isn't worth it unless you intend to attach multiple devices.
Thunderbolt is meant for Displays, expensive Audio equipment, external processing or big fast raid arrays. It is not meant for digital cameras, external harddrives, flash drives, mice, keyboards and all the other small stuff.
If anything you can attach a dock via thunderbolt which turn offers a couple of USB ports, Audio ports, all the standard stuff basically.
Thunderbolt is actually faster than just 10Gb/s because it has not just one channel but two. It is also really low latency which is again useless for external storage but important for other stuff. USB is poor in that regard but it is cheap and pushes enough data for just about any of the small stuff.
Keep in mind Intel is responsible for both Thunderbolt and USB 3.0. The latter is meant for the majority of external storage. It is just expensive to build an PCIe SATA bridge along with the expensive Thunderbolt chip. Plus expensive active cables. That isn't worth it unless you intend to attach multiple devices.
Thunderbolt is meant for Displays, expensive Audio equipment, external processing or big fast raid arrays. It is not meant for digital cameras, external harddrives, flash drives, mice, keyboards and all the other small stuff.
If anything you can attach a dock via thunderbolt which turn offers a couple of USB ports, Audio ports, all the standard stuff basically.
Thunderbolt is actually faster than just 10Gb/s because it has not just one channel but two. It is also really low latency which is again useless for external storage but important for other stuff. USB is poor in that regard but it is cheap and pushes enough data for just about any of the small stuff.
