RED STATION MINI

[Trevor Meier]

You can do 10W over Thunderbolt - is that not enough for a RedStation?

[Mike Halper]

Thunderbolt is great. it is awesome. but to date the adoption has been almost non-existent.

That's because Apple has a strangle-hold on it for the first year. In the spring, when other computers are allowed to have Thunderbolt, it will take off as long as manufacturers put 2 Thunderbolt ports on devices for daisy-chaining. If they don't do that it will fail. I think prices of the chipsets and cables will come down as more and more devices come out and adoption takes off.

[Jarred Land]

You can do 10W over Thunderbolt - is that not enough for a RedStation?

The thunderbolt cables are active... The cables alone gobble up half that power all by themselves... Then add the currently power hungry chipset on the end... And there isn't very much left over.

We will enter the game when the time is right... But that time is not right now for portable devices.

[Sergio Perez]

I hope what I say makes sense since I've never been very knowledgeable in computer technology, but if the thunderbolt port doesn't provide enough power to make the disk work, couldn't it work like the current red station by connecting to the USB port for power? Wouldn't this work?

[Jarek Zabczynski]

SATA was never meant to be external or hot pluggable. I hate eSATA. I'm glad USB3 and Thunderbolt are here to kill it. Let's keep SATA cables inside out machines where they belong. I feel like I have to cross my fingers anytime I use something that is eSATA.

[Michael Millichamp]

I personally think eSata is so much better than USB 3...

Ive had nothing but problems with USB 3.

[Mark Toia]

but as soon as I opened the box and realized that i needed to plug it into the wall every time with a big wall wart ( something the Lacie Little Big drives never had to do in the past ) I threw it against the wall.

You doing a TOIA!

[Jarred Land]

You doing a TOIA!

Heh heh heh :)

[Peter Stelzhammer]

SATA was never meant to be external or hot pluggable. I hate eSATA. I'm glad USB3 and Thunderbolt are here to kill it. Let's keep SATA cables inside out machines where they belong. I feel like I have to cross my fingers anytime I use something that is eSATA.

THIS!

It may be fast (and it is indeed - way faster then FW800) but the cables are a real pain, the express-card adapters at (mobile) Macs can be troublesome and the whole handling is sub-par (connectors, cables, prone to movement of the setup...). It is fast - but I really don't trust (e)SATA. It was never meant as a real external in-field solution imo.

[Ivan G]

When you say USB3 you're referring to pc only because Mac doesn't support it. At least that's what I know since I've purchased my MacBook a few months ago.