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I had some time to demo some of the upcoming Thunderbolt accessories from external drive makers at CES earlier today. We had briefly discussed a few others from OCZ, LaCie, Belkin and Elgato earlier in the week. First up was the Western Digital MyBook Thunderbolt Duo:
These are going to compare nicely to the Promise RAID setup (with similar speeds) but don’t have a price or release date yet. The vibe seemed to be like Q2 with perhaps an announcement at Macworld.
Next was the Hitachi G-Drive series of Thunderbolt Drives and these were also 8TBs:
8TB is going to cost you $1100 and it appears that, at least in these setups, the Hitachis is slightly slower than the Western Digital.
Finally, Seagate had two drives which were really just Thunderbolt to SATA3 adapters. The portable variety is powered thru the Thunderbolt connection but because of the bottleneck in portable drive speed didn’t have a great showing. The desktop “docking” version showed a bit better. Results here will go up with faster SSDs and disk drive arrays that the others’ employ. The good news is that Seagate’s adapters are going to be announced next week and should ship shortly thereafter. The Prices are also very low at $99 for portable and $189 for desktop.
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