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Seagate and WD sign on for Intel Thunderbolt support
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article published on 26 February, 2011
The two largest HDD makers, Seagate and Western Digital have confirmed today that they will support Intel's newly launched Thunderbolt interconnect technology.
Both will have drives available with the technology during 2011.
Says WD of the move:
Western Digital believes Thunderbolt technology will bring both new performance levels and simpler connectivity for consumers to access ... [ read the full article ]
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AfterDawn Addict
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26. February 2011 @ 01:31 |
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a full 10Gb/s of bandwidth (something not truly needed for HDDs these days) can be provided for the first device in the chain of the devices.
I'll need to read up on that...I wonder how many devices can be chained together; a typical 3TB external runs at less than 125MBPS, or about 1/10 the cable speed limit...I wonder if the empty promises of SATA2 and SATA3 relating to daisy-chaining devices to use the whole bandwidth will finally be realized.
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Markonius
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26. February 2011 @ 06:47 |
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Great increase in speed, especially for video editing! And this external HDDs will be much more cheeper and smaller than proffesional solutions like: MACOLA Infiniband interface, HUGE MEDIA VAULT Fibre Channel Interface, Apple Xserve RAID Fibre Channel Interface, AVID VIDEO RAID SCSI Ultra, ... and most of them are raids with multiple HDDs.
But the time will be final judge.
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oappi
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26. February 2011 @ 12:41 |
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@Markonius you do realize that most hdd:s are really slow like Killerbug pointed out? You still need multiple hdd:s to get advantage of thunderbold. Even ssd:s wont be able to use full bandwidth with one disk. Still it is nice that connectors won't be the limiting factor, but i fear it is going to end up like esata. Kinda popular, but not going to overthrow usb. Most people don't really care if it is 20x or 2x faster if they can't connect it to their computer.
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ntense69
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26. February 2011 @ 13:48 |
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I have never bought a ext sata i still prefer usb now that i have usb 3.0 its even better
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26. February 2011 @ 17:47 |
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This will be cool if WD added this to their HD Media Players, they still haven't added USB 3.0, only to a few HDD. But even then, USB 3.0 is more than enough for streaming HD video. Right now I rather buy a device that has USB 3.0, instead of Light Peak, I think USB will always be more universal and popular than LIght Peak will be.
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26. February 2011 @ 22:39 |
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Never say always...but I think USB has the edge for a while too. That said, I am happy with my ESATA, and I will get light peak if the final product is worth the cost.
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lissenup2
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27. February 2011 @ 03:29 |
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I can't wait until this gets finalized and universally adopted. 10Gbps rocks. Though devices will need to undergo a serious techno change to accommodate and most will have to get new mobos I'm guessing. Either way, fiber interconnectivity would be nice.
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IguanaC64
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28. February 2011 @ 14:43 |
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I foresee a lot of broken fiber cables in everyone's futures. Wonder how durable they will be...and how expensive vs a sata cable.
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Bozobub
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28. February 2011 @ 21:01 |
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Theoretically, fiber should be significantly cheaper than any wiring. Glass is far cheaper than copper.
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mscritsm
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5. March 2011 @ 20:01 |
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@IguanaC64: Fiber cables can be pretty sturdy and take a lot of abuse. It all depends on the plastic coating surrounding the fiber and the durability of the connectors at both ends.
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