Western Digital is showing off their new line of external hard drives with Intel’s Thunderbolt interface. When four 6TB enclosures are daisy-chained together, WD showed throughput of 1,000 MB/s. The My Book Thunderbolt Duo has not formally been announced by WD yet, but the drives were shown off at CES and Macworld. Up to six enclosures can be chained together at a time.
Western Digital is showing off their new line of external hard drives with Intel’s Thunderbolt interface. When four 6TB enclosures are daisy-chained together, WD showed throughput of 1,000 MB/s. The My Book Thunderbolt Duo has not formally been announced by WD yet, but the drives were shown off at CES and Macworld. Up to six enclosures can be chained together at a time.
Obtaining such rapid throughput with platter-based hard drives is impressive to say the least and offers a brilliant combination to those who need a blend of big capacity and performance. While Thunderbolt has been slow to impact storage in a meaningful and cost effective way, demonstrations like this from WD show that 2012 may be an interesting year for Thunderbolt, as the mainstream storage providers start offering a variety of solutions.
The next step – convince Apple to sell the cables for less than $50 a pop.
