Thunderbolt -- here we go again...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:59:32PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> Just came across motherboard with Thunderbolt connectors,
>     <http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z77V_PROTHUNDERBOLT/>
>     <https://thunderbolttechnology.net/products>
> which means, pretty soon, we have to replace our SATA harddisks, as we
> did with EIDE ones.

No it most certainly does not mean anything remotely like that.

Thunderbolt is an external connector only meant to compete with USB3 and
possibly eSATA (although that is of course limited to storage devices,
unlike USB3 and thunderbolt).

Thunderbolt is simply PCI express over an external cable.  Very useful,
although somewhat expensive to implement so far.  You would not usually
consider connecting your disk directly to PCI express so you also would
not connect a disk directly to thunderbolt.  You need a controller
in between.  A thunderbolt connected PCI express SATA controller with
SATA disks connected makes perfect sense in an enclosure though.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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