Re: [Fed-Talk] Thunderbolt disk adapters
Re: [Fed-Talk] Thunderbolt disk adapters
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Thunderbolt disk adapters
- From: David Emery <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:06:52 -0400
My experience with Seagate over the last 2 years has been uniformly bad, and it's not just the 1TB drives. The hybrid drive in my older MBP -may be- the source if its instability, there were a lot of firmware problems with this.
This is a great idea, but not from this vendor.
I'm surprised no one else (e.g. OWC) has come out with TBolt-eSATA adapters. (I've lobbied OWC for this product, suggest others do likewise.)
dave
(I -have to figure out- how to work around my problem in Mail.app where it selects the wrong account when responding to messages!)
On Oct 24, 2012, at 14:13 , Joel Esler <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2012, at 12:18 PM, David Emery <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Another option is the LaCie TBolt to eSATA adapter: http://store.apple.com/us/product/H8875ZM/A/lacie-esata-hub-thunderbolt-series
>> I see this as low as $179, but that's still a premium price!
>>
>> I bought one to connect my (as of yesterday previous generation) Mini to my OWC Qx2 RAID Array. Using TBolt to eSATA, I think I got up to 2xFW800 speed, but nowhere near what I would have expected from an eSATA interface. But part of that is the Qx2, which is rather sluggish. On single eSATA drives, the speed was better.
>>
>> dave
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> Thunderbolt to FireWire adaptor:
>>> http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD464ZM/A
>
>
> Slightly relevant:
>
> http://store.apple.com/us/product/H8581ZM/A/seagate-freeagent-goflex-thunderbolt-adapter-for-portable-hard-drives?fnode=5f&p=3
>
> I have one of those with the accompanying hard drive. Very very fast.
>
> Just in case anyone wanted a recommendation.
>
> --
> Joel Esler
> Senior Research Engineer, VRT
> OpenSource Community Manager
> Sourcefire
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