Thunderbolt Hard Drives - advice needed

[siritalks]

I really need a new external hard drive as my current one is about 2GB from being full.

Ideally, I'd like to get a Thunderbolt one to take advantage of the speeds. However, I know some of them are very expensive, and some of them also don't seem to give that good a speed.

Could anyone recommend the best ones to look at within a budget of £400max, 2TB upwards ideal, good speeds (much better than Firewire and USB2), and ideally not too loud?

 

[carestudio]

what about Cal Digit's Thunderbolt drive and RAID?
http://www.caldigit.com/Thunderbolt/T1T2.html

looks very very promising, performance seems to be faster than others.

 

[g4cube]

what about Cal Digit's Thunderbolt drive and RAID?
http://www.caldigit.com/Thunderbolt/T1T2.html

looks very very promising, performance seems to be faster than others.

They aren't shipping, and pricing has not been announced. Definitely look interesting, but they were announced awhile ago, with promises to ship soon. AT IBC this week, another announcement, but no pricing or delivery info except "soon".

 

[Ifti]

WD My Book Thunderbolt?
Not sure of prices though.......

 

[g4cube]

WD My Book Thunderbolt?
Not sure of prices though.......

Google is your friend on prices.

LaCie 2big is faster than WD. LaCie uses 7200RPM and WD uses the slower Green drives.

WD also recently announced new 2 drive configuration using 10K RPM Velociraptor drives which should be faster, but the review at Anandtech indicates not necessarily so:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6216/western-digital-my-book-velociraptor-duo-review

I read somewhere else that drives are limited to WD models only, whereas the LaCie will work with most any SATA HDD or even SSD.

 

[intermedial]

I've got a LaCie 2big. Love it.

In Raid0 it pushes ~350 MB per second. Half that in Raid1