Comments on: My Thoughts on Thunderbolt https://isource.com/2011/06/28/my-thoughts-on-thunderbolt/ #1 Source for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and AppleTV Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:47:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.6 By: Joe https://isource.com/2011/06/28/my-thoughts-on-thunderbolt/#comment-37008 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:04:12 +0000 http://isource.com/?p=40775#comment-37008 I agree that it is a chicken and egg type of scenerio. Would think more peripherals will be coming out in the next few months as around NAB (In April) this year is when the technology was announced and the company that makes the Thunderbolt storage which is now available was one of the companies listed, the other companies can’t be far behind.

Why would it be consumer based? I see this 10Gb link (which can get 800+ MB/s) performance being at the Pro level… is the average consumer going to have more than 2 hard drives in a RAID0 (which is required to utilize that level of performance) A drive may get 100-150 MB/s on its own if it is fast and SAS.. but if it is SATA it will be slower. If you want to get faster with fewer disks then it is SSD drives…and those are expensive for the consumer now. So they have the USB 3 option available which should get them 80-200 MB/s performance and satisfy their needs over Firewire (60MB/s) and USB 2.0 (40MB/s if you’re lucky).

The adoption of Thunderbolt is going to be taken by those who need it… Laptops… that is the sweet spot, 75% of Apples market or about 15 million Macbooks this year, don’t have the ability to plug into SAS/SATA or Fibre Channel for performance, so it makes sense that they have the ability to plug into a port that is native to their laptop!! That saves money by not having to buy an adapter! So the extra can go into the storage… FAST STORAGE… Look at what is out now… 500-800 MB/s for the 4 or 6 drive arrays that are out… lets see what the USB 2/3, FireWire 800 or eSATA arrays will do for performance with the same configurations… I bet it will be much much lower.

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