03-07-2013, 03:22 PM
TheTominator wrote:
Ken Sp. is right that using thunderbolt is only popular so far with enclosures that do something to make better use of the speed of Thunderbolt. SSD's are not yet commonly available in 3.5" form factor so thundrbolt enclosures house multiple 3.5" drives.
External thunderbolt hard drive enclosures:
Drobo 5 drive enclosure for 3.5" drives
Drobo 4 drive enclosure for 2.5" drives
Pegasus RAID with 4 drives
I can personally attest that the Pegasus RAID is crazy fast over Thunderbolt. Throw that on a Mac Mini with an SSD boot drive and you will be amazed.