• Buying a Thunderbolt Hard Drive: Things To Know Before Buying

    by  • September 4, 2011 • 4 Comments

    ShareIf you’re considering jumping on the new Thunderbolt Hard Drive bandwagon, there are a few things you should know before you jump on board.  Here’s a list of tips from the experts: 1. Early Adoption – Any time you buy the newest piece of technology you can bet your last dollar (if you didn’t spend [...]

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    Still No Thunderbolt Hard Drive Enclosures

    by  • August 24, 2011 • 1 Comment

    ShareDIY’ers who are waiting around for the pending release of a Thunderbolt Hard Drive enclosure that you can drop your own drive in to are thus far out of luck. Even now, months after the release of Thunderbolt we still haven’t heard a peep from the aftermarket industry about a release of an upcoming product. [...]

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    USB 3.0 Uses Power to Take on Thunderbolt

    by  • August 17, 2011 • 4 Comments

    ShareThis week the USB Promoter Group made an announcement presumably to try to take the wind out of Thunderbolt’s sails. USB 3.0 will soon be capable of transmitting up to 100W of power to connected devices, compared to Thunderbolt’s 10W. , which only supports 3.2 Gbps of throughput compared to Thunderbolt’s 10Gbps, has been taking [...]

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    Lacie’s Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Hard Drive

    by  • August 14, 2011 • 0 Comments

    ShareLacie has announced the first truly entry level grade Thunderbolt hard drive device coming to market in the summer of 2011 (we’re going to guess late summer since it’s already well into August now). Lacie is retrofitting it’s device to support new 10Gb/s thunderbolt technology. The external enclosure itself will ship with either a 240GB [...]

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    Sporting ThunderBolt: Promise’s Pegasus R6

    by  • August 9, 2011 • 4 Comments

    Share Now on the market, the is the first 6-bay High Performance Hardware RAID Solution designed to unleash Apple’s newly introduced Thunderbolt™ technology.  Thunderbolt  is a new, high-speed, dual-protocol I/O technology designed for high performance applications. This device will be among the first to be able to leverage the full 10Gb/s speeds promised by ThunderBolt. [...]

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