Where are the thunderbolt HDD enclosures or any other peripherals ?
I bought a WD Caviar Black 2tb WD2002FAEX and was hopin' to have it in an enclosure by now....
At this point I would settle for a Sata III firewire800 enclosure.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 3.4GHz i7
No offense taken
I just prefer to hear from users with experience of the device in question, or do it myself. Apocryphal internet accounts are interesting but can be wrong.
Hello Csound,
I have one of these seagate sleds. I bought it to go with my 2011 MBP which the wife now has. I have the 2012 MBA now. I also have an HP Spectre XT touchsmart with a thunderbolt port. The seagate drive works perfectly on both devices. No drivers needed. Strictly plug and play. Also I use it with naked 2.5 inch drives, both mechanical and SSD.
It performs as advertized, except that the advertizements do not mention its complete compatibility with windows.
Thats my 2 cents.
Okayson
Thanks, but the question was in regard to Non Seagate drives in Seagate sleds.
Yes I understand.
As I said, I have the seagate sled and I've used SSDs by OCZ, Crucial M500 and Sandisk as well as mechanical drives by Seagate and the "proprietary" drives that came with my MacBook Pro and HP Spectre XT Touchsmart. As described above, and I am attaching pictures to illustrate my point, the connector is a regular sata connector so any 2.5 inch drive will fit. Actually a 3.5 inch drive will also fit but typically those require external power, (although I once had a 3.5 inch 90gb OCZ ssd that could be used with this sled).
Ti compensate for the design being for the special Seagate drive, I put some paper to raise the floor of the sled so that a regular 2.5 drive connects to the sata port without bending.
okayson.
There aren't many Thunderbolt peripherals out yet still.. the only one that springs to mind is LaCie SSD / HDD range
What about all the others mentioned in this very thread?
Are they not real?
I wound up getting the OWC Mercury Elite Pro. The fan is a touch on the noisy side (not bad), but it has worked flawlessly right out of the box with my twin 3TB SATA drives for a couple of months now (in JBOD mode). I couldn't be much more pleased.
I first bought the Seagate portable GoFlex adapter and I had disconnection problems with my 512GB SSD when I was working with really demanding applications like video production. I later found a post from a guy who explain why Thunderbolt powered enclosures can't support SSD over 256GB.
I then bought the Seagate GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt adapter. With the power brick, no more problems and blazing Thunderbolt speed for less than 200$ and I can use any drive I want! And even daisy chain my Thunderbolt display to it.
Where are the thunderbolt HDD enclosures and other peripherals ?
