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Fri Jun 14, 2013 5:35 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Denver Dan" denverdan22180
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Have you considered moving data between two external hard drives via
Thunderbolt?
Denver Dan
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:29:44 -0400, TimeFramePhoto wrote:
>>
>> Also, I keep reading that few external hard drives can saturate
>> FireWire 800, let alone Thunderbolt. So what kind of applications
>> can take advantage of it?
>
> Yes, from what I've read it would be a little silly to spring for a
> TB enclosure for use with spinning disk drives as they simply can't
> take advantage of TB's speed. For that, USB3 and FW800 are plenty. As
> far as data storage and transfer, I'd be interested in a portable SSD
> drive using TB, but there are very few out there, and pricy + pricy =
> really pricy. As in $500 for a 240GB drive. No thanks.
Have you considered moving data between two external hard drives via
Thunderbolt?
Denver Dan
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:29:44 -0400, TimeFramePhoto wrote:
>>
>> Also, I keep reading that few external hard drives can saturate
>> FireWire 800, let alone Thunderbolt. So what kind of applications
>> can take advantage of it?
>
> Yes, from what I've read it would be a little silly to spring for a
> TB enclosure for use with spinning disk drives as they simply can't
> take advantage of TB's speed. For that, USB3 and FW800 are plenty. As
> far as data storage and transfer, I'd be interested in a portable SSD
> drive using TB, but there are very few out there, and pricy + pricy =
> really pricy. As in $500 for a 240GB drive. No thanks.
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