Seagate Thunderbolt Adapter for 2.5" drives

[Jarek Zabczynski]

Seagate introduced a Thunderbolt adapter for their GoFlex drives. You can actually just stick any 2.5" HD or SSD in this. Could be usedfull with the PIX240 etc.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1317521

[Stephen Gentle]

Looks good, but what I really want is just a Thunderbolt to eSATA adaptor so I can plug into my existing external drives...

Especially one with, say, four eSATA ports would be amazing.

[Jarek Zabczynski]

I kinda hope eSATA goes away. SATA was never meant to be external, it's an awful connector, I never feel safe using eSATA. With USB3 and Thunderbolt it might happen.

[charles lim yi yong]

if i connect my red station with firewire800 and the external drive has thunderbolt connection, will it transfer faster then redstation and external drive both using firewire 800

[Todd T]

Since the goflex thunderbolt adapter has a standard sata connector I would attach it to the red station directly via a sata to esata cable.
Voila! Thunderbolt enabled red station.

[Jarek Zabczynski]

Since the goflex thunderbolt adapter has a standard sata connector I would attach it to the red station directly via a sata to esata cable.
Voila! Thunderbolt enabled red station.

Indeed. You would need an extension cable though. You would also need to run power via DC or USB cable.

http://www.cooldrives.com/esexcaitolex.html

[charles lim yi yong]

This Goflex looks like a godsend solution.
7200 rpm drives , and interchangable connections - thunderbolt for on set transfers. and others firewire 800 for dumping back in post suites.
Where can I get this now?

[Jarek Zabczynski]

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/accessories/

Scroll down a bit there.

[Brian Iannone]

It's a neat little adapter that Seagate came out with, but don't forget that you won't notice any speed improvement while using a 2.5" or 3.5" HDD compared to using eSATA. While Thunderbolt is capable of transferring data at 10 Gbps, the actual hard drive is limited to a typical maximum of 130 MB/s. This adapter will be useful with SSDs, however, since the actual SATA interface of the SSD can reach the 600+ MB/s range (as long as it has a SATA 6 Gbps interface).

But, for a single HDD, eSATA is capable of providing the maximum transfer rate out of the disk. In fact, even SATA II is capable of data rates more than twice that of the disk's speed.

[charles lim yi yong]

i have done a speed test for
128 GB REDMAG full
macbook pro SSD internal drive
thunderbolt lacie 1TB 7200rpm
RED station esata sonnet express card

around 15 minutes for a straight dump
around 30 minutes data manager - md5 -

Is that faster than a setup which is running on all firewire 800 connections?

[Todd T]

Indeed. You would need an extension cable though. You would also need to run power via DC or USB cable.

http://www.cooldrives.com/esexcaitolex.html

Fortunately the Redstation has its own power supply.