Calling all thunderbolt users,

[John Christie]

I have had a Promise Raid on my iMac for over a year. I’ve never had to unplug it. Maybe 3 times I’ve had to turn it on and off to get it to connect. But I only have one TB device connected.

It sure beats the days of SCSI “voodoo” when you’d have to add and remove devices to the chain until you got it all working.

Even firewire seems to be more temperamental than TB.

[John Heagy]

We are using SAN Link to mount Xsan volumes on 4 iMacs. No issues to report and never had to unplug them.

[John Davidson]

All on one iMac
-Promise Pegasus, never been unplugged or anything in a year. Electricity might have gone out once or twice, but it’s always on and always ‘there’.
-BMG Ultra Studio Express – No problems. It’s always just on.
-Ethernet adapter goes into the Promise connected to a NAS. No problems with that either.

Tb is awesome. I can’t wait till everything is set up for it.

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

[Patrice Freymond]

Hi,

I have an iMac with an iO XT and a Pegasus RAID, both connected via Thunderbolt. Never had to disconnect any of them in 10 months of constant use.

Patrice Freymond

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Post Consultant

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[Olof Ekbergh]

I had some problems initially running an MX02 and a LaCie 6TB RAID as well as a 23″ external monitor. I just kept changing what was plugged into what. Kinda like SCSI. I thought for a while I had a bad cable. Once I had it working it just kept on working.

Now I have dropped the 23 external screen, I dont feel I need it with my 27″ iMac. I also retired (temporarily) the MX02 on this system, it does not work with 10.8.2 or FCPX 10.0.6.

I now use a Ultrastudio Express instead and it runs perfectly switching between CS6 Apps and FCPX. This setup works great with my new Retina MBP as well.

So apart from some initial trouble everything works great w/o any restarts or hot plug/unplugging needed. I have 3 external TB raids I move around between Macs w/o any problems. I have found the single drive LaCie rugged TB’s are no faster than the USB3 version, this is due to single 5400 drive limitation.

FRom what I see TB is rugged and very reliable.

Olof Ekbergh

[Neil Goodman]

Imac here with an intensity extreme from Black Magic, at one time a lacie little big disk tb and an external monitor daisy chained from that, never had to unplug any of them.

Now its a pegasus r6 instead of the lacie, all is good in the hood.

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Jeremy Garchow]

Can we, right here in this thread, get some rampant speculation and general discontent about Apple single-handedly trashing everything we’ve ever worked for because they replaced fw800 with a far more useful, capable, and technologically advanced bundle of protocols? Please?

Way too much positivity in here gentlemen, get your collective sh*t together.

I’ll provide the hastily written, unspellchecked, yet mildly entertaining color commentary.

[Bret Williams]

WTF! I want to switch to the new iMac, but it doesn’t have FW800 which is explicitly essential to my workflow. We won’t be able to function. I’m most likely going to have to make the move to windows. Apple doesn’t care about pros anymore.

[Neil Goodman]

[Bret Williams] “WTF! I want to switch to the new iMac, but it doesn’t have FW800 which is explicitly essential to my workflow. We won’t be able to function. I’m most likely going to have to make the move to windows. Apple doesn’t care about pros anymore.
“

Alot ofthe audio guys are up in arms about this as well. So many audio interfaces are firewire.

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Bill Davis]

You guys are wimps.

I tried to plug in my original Corvus 11 megabyte hard drive that uses a 2-pin serial cable for data transfer and I COULD’T EVEN FIND A PLACE TO PLUG IT IN to my damn FCP-X system.

(And I KNOW it’s totally “PROFESSIONAL” because I paid something like TWO THOUSAND BUCKS for it back in 1986.)

So there.

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