Hi Carlo Yep, knew all that,..but thanks :) The "slow down" for most of it at the moment is the "normal" drives only spin at 7200rpm so the read speeds are fast enough for most Thunderbolt cases. Hence why LaCie have gone with SSDs drive in two of their three up in coming enclosures. One the price of optical fibre comes down then its forward compatible to handle the 100Gb per second,...or what ever it is,... But they're hoping for around 10GB/sec at the moment on the "normal" cable. Good to know that the Thunderbolt ports made now will still handle the faster things down the track...normally doesn't happen that way...lol
Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Macintosh** On 30/6/11 1:07 PM, "cm" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > It turns out the cable is an "active cable" that has internal chips an > firmware. This allows it to support incredible transfer speeds upward of 5 > gigabits per second! The following article also mentions that the internal > electronics means that current ports could be compatible with future cables > that will use optical fibres rather than copper wires. > > http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/06/29/apples_new_thunderbolt_cable_spo > rts_internal_firmware_chips.html > > Cheers, > Carlo > > On 2011-06-29, at 24:10, Daniel Kerr wrote: > >> >> Thought those following the "Thunderbolt" updates may be interested in the >> following. >> >> LaCie announced their drives a while back but no pricing or exact eta on >> their shipping as yet. >> <http://www.lacie.com/au/products/product.htm?id=10549> >> >> But Apple have released their RAID series drives with Thunderbolt ports. >> Not "overly" cheap from $1169 for 4TB. >> >> You can read some of the info here (pricing in USD) >> <http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/28/apple-thunderbolt-cable-and-promise-thu >> nderbolt-raid-systems-hit-the-apple-store/> >> >> Or <http://tinyurl.com/4x4car8> >> >> And on the Apple Store (Au) here:- >> <http://store.apple.com/au/search?find=pegasus&mco=Nzc1MjMwNg> >> >> And you can get a Thunderbolt cable for $55 :o) >> >> Enjoy >> >> Kind regards >> Daniel >> --- >> Daniel Kerr >> MacWizardry >> >> Phone: 0414 795 960 >> Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> >> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >> >> >> **For everything Macintosh** >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >> > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
