WD Debuts First Portable Thunderbolt-Powered Dual-Drive

[JMcEntegart]

A new drive aimed at creative pros and enthusiasts.

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[joraph]

So expensive

 

[fleeb]

USB 3.0 = 625 MBb/s. What's the point if the HD performance is only 233 MB/s?

 

[ubercake]

Also, I'm guessing the actual write speed is half that if you choose the RAID 1 option?

 

[cah027]

Would have been better if they used SSD's

 

[Ragnar-Kon]

USB 3.0 = 625 MBb/s. What's the point if the HD performance is only 233 MB/s?

Just because USB 3.0 runs that fast doesn't mean the drive itself has that kind of performance.Loving Thunderbolt (especially the Firewire-esque daisy chain), but price for the hardware is still too high for me to jump into it. Don't want to spend an extra $60-$150 just to get a motherboard with Thunderbolt.

 

[ubercake]

Would have been better if they used SSD's

It is WD after all. They aren't too on-board with this newfangled (?) SSD market. Their only attempts at SSDs haven't been affordable/competitive at a consumer level. Platters are still where it's at with WD. They definitely do platters well.