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  Thunderbolt Solutions

  Posted by Derek Vowles on August 9, 2013 at 9:15 pm

  Hello Creative Cow forums,

  Just joined, so apologies in advance if this topic has already been covered extensively.

  Besides Seagate’s very expensive Thunderbolt dock for their line of hard drives, I’m finding little or no other product on the market. Am I just having bad luck finding others? What have been some other vendors who have delivered on their promises of Thunderbolt tech?

  With USB 3.1 on the horizon, is Thunderbolt going to be left an abandoned niche product? I’d be curious to know the community’s outlook on it.

  Looking forward to reading through more the forums!

  Kevin Rag replied 12 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  John Davidson

  August 10, 2013 at 4:58 pm

  We use it all the time for things like the Promise pegasus, Blackmagic mini-monitor, GbE, 10GbE with ATTO Thunderlink, and connecting monitors. Tethering is pretty sweet.

  Thunderbolt2 should be pretty interesting too.

  John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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  Bob Zelin

  August 21, 2013 at 12:04 pm

  what is expensive – exactly what would you consider a fair price to spend ?

  Bob Zelin

  Bob Zelin
  Rescue 1, Inc.
  maxavid@cfl.rr.com
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  Kevin Rag

  August 26, 2013 at 12:36 am

  I’ve been using the Promise Pegasus R4 for on-set editing and the Blackmagic UltraStudio express for I/O with my rMBP and am happy with these products. Especially the R4. Super fast in RAID 5 too!

  Kannan Raghavan
  The Big Toad Films Pte. Ltd.

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