Yey. Ordered 2.7GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, need advice

[Baytriple]

Ok so I am a Mac Pro 2,1 3ghz user but thought I would try the 2.7GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 MacBook Pro, Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz. I have a 2010 17 inch too. (which I'm not sure what I'm going to do with now as I quite liked it but found myself pressing the buy button on the app store, oops)

My question is about thunderbolt. As none of my older macs have it, I feel that I'm not very informed on the situation.

I would like to be able to use the thunderbolt as my main storage, I have a 2TB drive just for storage on my MP. (around 500gb of movies etc, most can deleted as I do acquire a lot of crap ones for some reason)

What are the best options for thunderbolt enabled drives? Better to get SSD or stick with HDs?

Any input would be helpful.

 

[Coleman2010]

I can't answer your question but congrats on your purchase.

 

[MDFang]

SSDs are generally a lot faster, so if you want to take full advantage of Thunderbolt's high transfer speeds, SSDs are the way to go.

 

[Baytriple]

I can't answer your question but congrats on your purchase.

Thanks. It was very unplanned. I was dead set on not getting one. I did get a little swayed by this article. I just couldn't bring myself to buy the new Mac Pro when these MacBook Pros are pretty much the same speed if not faster.
http://www.cultofmac.com/174582/review-the-2012-retina-macbook-pro/

 

[Baytriple]

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[medi.freak]

Congrats from me too!

As far as I understood you want an external drive that is thunderbolt enabled. Correct?
So far, thunderbolt devices are still rare to find, and I know only four different drives that would use it. - all very expensive in comparison. But, thunderbolt, so probably pretty awesome.

First 2 are from Lacie, one with 1 Tb storage:

Lacie 1TB

and the other one with 2TB storage:


Lacie 2TB


And there are two from Western Digital with either 4TB or 6TB of storage:


Western Digital


Those will be faster than using an SSD as an external Drive, since the cables will be the bottlenecks...As I don't own any of the thunderbolt devices I can't help you in decision making, also I don't know how much money you are willing to spend. I wouldn't want to spend so much money on an external drive, even thunderbolt...

 

[Baytriple]

Thanks for the info.

I have seen these drives but as you I have not used them.

I think I'll have to do some digging to see what people are liking. Apparently I have 3-4 weeks to decide whilst they install the magic into my new beastie.

I am a graphic designer who uses the machine for image editing in photoshop and Lightroom as well as illustrator and indesign. I would like to try out Final cut too but haven't learnt how to use it yet.