Thunderbolt hard drives, no deals?

[Mr645]

Looking for a 4 TB external drive, desktop 3.5 inch is fine. Would like Thunderbolt but 3 times more than USB 3.0 drives. Any deals out there?

[sekker]

What are you using it for? USB3 is likely as fast as TB for spinny disk drives.

[ka jowct]

There are almost no single-bay TB drive enclosures. What is the reason that you feel you should get Thunderbolt?

[N-OS X-tasy!]

I expect you meant a 4 TB drive, yes?

[jdc]

What they said.

No platter based drive can exceed USB 3 speeds so getting a 4 TB tbolt does nothing.

If you want more speed from a platter drive you will need to build a 2-3 drive RAID 0.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Another vote for just buy the USB 3.0 drive, or did you get stuck with one of those Mac models with Thundercrap and no USB 3.0?

[ka jowct]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
Another vote for just buy the USB 3.0 drive, or did you get stuck with one of those Mac models with Thundercrap and no USB 3.0?

The USB-C mystery ports?

[jdc]

ka jowct wrote:
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
Another vote for just buy the USB 3.0 drive, or did you get stuck with one of those Mac models with Thundercrap and no USB 3.0?

The USB-C mystery ports?
Hes referring to some 2012/13 macs with TBolt and USB 2.

In which case, you didnt mention what this drive was for, but if its just for backup, USB 2 more than enough.

[Mr645]

Mostly because I have Macs with no more USB ports and unused Thunderbolt ports.
In this case it's a 2012 Mini with a Time Machine drive, USB card reader, Keyboard and a USB extention cable used for thumb drives. So the 4 USB ports are in use and the TB port is not used.

[ka jowct]

Maybe a USB hub for the Reader, keyboard and thumb drives? Or you could go nuts and get a TB hub or dock.