Four LaCie Thunderbolt Storage Devices Now Compatible With Windows

[Guest]

The Thunderbolt I/O is usually associated with Apple, but it's gaining traction on Windows PCs.

Four LaCie Thunderbolt Storage Devices Now Compatible With Windows : Read more

 

[claec]

"10 GB, 20 GB, and 30 GB" = TB, perhaps?

Also, the transfer rates are listed at Mb/s, whereas LaCie lists them at MB/s.

 

[d_kuhn]

Good catch... though I'm so used to seeing b and B misapplied that I automatically apply a "what makes sense" filter when I see them referenced.

I've got the Lacie SSD little big disk and I can attest that when Lacie says "1.2 GB/s throughput) they're not exaggerating... my unit runs almost exactly that fast for large file transfers. Only problem with the SSD LBD is that it's not 'strictly speaking' windows compatible. I can see it in the Thunderbolt device list in windows but I have to use MacDrive Pro to properly mount the array... I'm guessing the 'windows compatible' arrays in the article don't rely on the OS for array functionality.

 

[therealduckofdeath]

Just in time for the technology to be discontinued....

 

[d_kuhn]

Until 10gbe goes mainstream (which is not happening very fast), or maybe a new USB standard comes out that can compete (will have to get 4x faster than USB3)... Thunderbolt isn't going anywhere.

 

[therealduckofdeath]

Until 10gbe goes mainstream (which is not happening very fast), or maybe a new USB standard comes out that can compete (will have to get 4x faster than USB3)... Thunderbolt isn't going anywhere.

USB doesn't have to improve anything to beat TB, because TB is killing itself with $50 cable prices. I mean, they're selling used TB cables at amazon for over £20! Would you even contemplate buying a used USB cable?

 

[d_kuhn]

They are stupid expensive... I'll give you that, but overall TB2 is a lot cheaper than 10gbe to use for removable storage (and it's twice as fast). I don't know if we'll ever see it used for low cost PC gear... but on the high end of the market it's gaining traction.

 

[Calvin Huang]

Do you require MacDrive in Windows even when the SSD is formatted as exFAT?

 

[FireWire2]

DATOptic.com has a whole range of Thunderbolt can run both Windows and MAC for years. From 4x drives to 24x drives - SAS technology included... This is not new
http://www.datoptic.com/ec/jbod-raid-data-storage-solutions/thunderbolt.html

 

[d_kuhn]

Do you require MacDrive in Windows even when the SSD is formatted as exFAT?

I'm no Mac guru, but while I can mount windows formatted usb devices in OSX I can't write to them (read only)... The SSD LBD is a bit odd because it's actually a 2 drive array, and that's why it takes MacDrive Pro to access from windows, the default formatting is for OSX and while it looks like I could configure it as 2 x 512GB windows drives... that would sort of defeat the purpose (I use the 1.3GB/s write speed to offload video from camera storage)