Hello everybody As the final part of a systems upgrade here at Mac Access, I took delivery earlier on today of 2 LaCie LittleBig RAID disk arrays. These drives only support Striped and Mirror RAID configurations, as each enclosure contains 2 high capacity 7200 RPM 2TB SATA drives. It was a deliberate choice that I made when we decided to invest in the hardware a couple of weeks ago. I could have had 1 Promise enclosure which would have given me an 8TB capacity but doing it this way means that I can deploy the solutions across more than one system.
I have to admit that I was a little skeptical when I read the specifications of Thunderbolt some time ago in an Intel® technical document. However, having now seen it in action, I believe it! The protocol out-performs USB3 by a very long way, giving you a staggering bi-directional stream, each of which allows for up to 10GB simultaneously. It should be stressed that 10GB is 10 Gigabits, not Gigabytes, there is a difference. In any event, I am absolutely blown away by the awesome speed of Thunderbolt, something which PC users can only dream about. For us personally, combined with the 2 cloud solution drives which I installed on our networks recently, this really is going to be the ultimate in system storage. If you are thinking of upgrading to Thunderbolt, all I can say is you won’t regret it I’m sure. Kind regards <--- Gordon Smith ---> <[email protected]> Information Technology Accessibility Consultant; Proud To Be Providing Help & Support To The Staff And Students Of the Visually Impaired Department at Sunnyside Academy, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom; In Addition To Braille Transcription services. Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Or: +1 209 436 9443 Australasia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Follow Us On Twitter: <http://twitter.com/maciosaccess> Skype: <skype:mac-access-dot-net?call> ------------------------------ <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
