The Awesome Wires Have Arrived! – Thunderbolt

The right way to describe the Thunderbolt is by comparing it with the USB since it is actually designed after it. The same with the USB, Thunderbolt is a file transport technology, but rather faster. The former (USB3.0) was upgraded with the latest data transfer rate of about 5Gbps while the latter can transfer the same amount of data in half the time. You are correct, the Thunderbolt cables can transfer data at 10 Gbps! Perhaps, Thunderbolt is the greatest breakthrough of today’s innovations when we talk about I/O technology.

For over decade, long we waited for the USB to create a new era of technology that will change the present. Today, as the USB 3.0 is slowly doing so, Thunderbolt has already challenged USB’s mechanism. With a more superior set-up, Thunderbolt can interconnect many devices with one Thunderbolt cable, something which the USB technology took too long to provide its users. Through this technology, future is at hand, having a laptop or a smartphone capable of handling numerous gadgets all at once while maintaining optimum performance. Our rapid technological advancement is dependent to speed and with the speed so amazing that only Thunderbolt can give, nothing can hinder our vision as it takes off towards the future.

As the year’s passing by, the far-end vision of replacing USB is visible as Thunderbolt incorporates popular products nowadays. More and many other companies are signing for Thunderbolt’s incorporation to their systems too. As an example, the Canon Corporation announced that they will produce a camera with Thunderbolt connectivity soon. This means that Canon is manufacturing a camera for its customers designed to transfer heavy video and image data from one point to another in “just seconds”. Easy and fast transfer of data is already at hand.

Today, apart from the MacBook Pro, too few Thunderbolt-ready devices are out in the market. One of which is the Promise Pegasus HD enclosure which can encase 4 or 6 high-level hard drives. The 4-bay Promise Pegasus HD Enclosure can support four 1 terabyte hard drives or a total of four terabytes, or four 2 terabyte hard drives having up to 8 terabytes in total. The 4-bay Promise Pegasus has a transfer rate of 500 MBps only but this speed is already 10 times faster than the transfer speed of the USB 2.0. What’s more, the enclosure can even support 6 one terabyte or six hard disk drive with 2 terabyte capacity having a transfer rate of 800 MBps speed.

Another Thunderbolt-enabled device is from LaCie called the Little Big Disk. This device is actually an external hard drive that consists of four high-level hard disks linked together. Through Thunderbolt, the Little Big Disk can transfer data at high speed but since the MacBook Pro is the only product from Apple having a Thunderbolt port and since as of the moment, Apple has all the rights to exclusively produce products with Thunderbolt ports, at this point of time, Little Big Disk is compatible with MacBook Pro only.

Get ahead of everybody with all the new Thunderbolt cables. Become the first to have a Thunderbolt and commence copying files at the rate of 10 Gbps now! Check out the Thunderbolt internet site for additional information.