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Thunderbolt is here
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[Craig Seeman] “I’ve read this would not be possible as the controller must be on the motherboard. “
Tunderbolt is something that resides on the GPU.
Have a look to the graphic Demo on this page:
https://www.intel.com/technology/turboboost/
More than a new technology seems like something that optimizes the existing (HiperThread, PCI,..).
For me is more interesting the vamp on performance than the data-transfer speed.
I don’t really know if a new interface/connexion is what we need the most (no me).
New interface: Money out of pocket.
But: Welcomed Thunderbolt!!
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[Alex Geroulaitis] “There is nothing in Thunderbolt that makes your system obsolete or even outdated.”
Quiet, man! Can’t you see I’m trying to get a new system for cheap?!
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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Rafa,
The page you’re looking at and linking to is about Intel’s “TurboBoost” (which to my understanding is about realtime on demand core overclocking) it’s not about Thunderbolt which folks are talking about here … TurboBoost and Thunderbolt are different technologies. For what its worth, neither “reside on the GPU”. Sorry man, I’ve no special knowledge of this, and we all as always reserve the right to be wrong, but your post may confuse folks.
Cheers
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[Nate Stephens] “But if the SSD drives are the only drives that can take full advantage of the throughput speed, ……”
That’s a critical question.
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Why are folks suggesting this? The demo here shows a Promise RAID … no indication that it’s using SSD.
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[Nate Stephens] “But if the SSD drives are the only drives that can take full advantage of the throughput speed, up goes budget.”
Reading twice: No reason to think that standard HD can’t take full advantage of Tunderbolt.
THe coming LaCie does it.
I guess that new computers internal HDs connexion may be “Tunderbolt” instead of SATA.
rafael -
The good news is that you may be able to find a Thunderbolt to Parallel Port adapter so you can eke out a few more months of use from your old system.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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You’r right Andy.
I have to clean my glasses more often 🙂
BTW, I just wrote that the LaCie uses standard HDs.
NO. It uses two SSD on a raid:
https://www.lacie.com/us/technologies/technology.htm?id=10039
Sure the new LittleBigDisk (love them for the field) will be wayyyyyyy expensive.
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Lol …. how about a Thuderbolt to SCSI adaptor?
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[Nate Stephens] “But if the SSD drives are the only drives that can take full advantage of the throughput speed, up goes budget.”
Almost any RAID will take advantage of it as few external interfaces out there are fast enough to out-pace the speed of 3-4 striped HDDs.
SSDs take advantage of the bus power (single TB cable), in a way 3.5″ hard drives can’t – and of course, superior speeds. I’ve seen a single 6G SSD running at over 4Gbs – two of them striped will over-saturate even a USB 3.0 connection.
Alex
DV411
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