Wait for Thunderbolt Drive?

[Nealdf]

I just bought a new Mac Mini with the Thunderbolt i/o. I need a 1 or 2 TB drive and am tempted to get an Iomega MiniMax FireWire.

Should I wait until Thunderbolt drive equivalents are available? Any guesses how long that might be?

Any feedback on the Iomegas? OWC is my second choice.

Thanks!

 

[apw100]

What are you going to be using the drive for? If it is just standard storage/backup then Firewire 800(1394b) will be fine. If you will be using it as a scratch drive or project file drive for Photoshop or video editing, I'd wait for Thunderbolt.

 

[jsolares]

If it's just a single drive FW800 is good enough, 7200rpm drives aren't that much faster than 800mbits

 

[DarwinOSX]

FW800 will be fine but if you can wait I would. TB drives are not far off. Seagate sounds like its coming soon. Of course there are no guarantees.
Iomega has a spotty reliability record. See user reviews on New Egg and Amazon. Rocstor are the most reliable drives I have found but they charge more. I, and people I know have had too many customer service issues with OWC to recommend them.