Seagate Releases GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter, Adds Thunderbolt To Any 2.5" Drive

Seagate has recently released a Thunderbolt adapter for its GoFlex series of portable external hard drives that is as big as an external hard drive on its own. The GoFlex Thunderbolt adapter works with all GoFlex drives adding a super fast Thunderbolt port with transfer speeds of up to 10GBps. Also, the GoFlex Thunderbolt adapter requires no external power to run and is compatible with any 2.5" SATA drive including SSD drives which will yield the fastest capable transfer speeds. Seagate's GoFlex Thunderbolt adapter is the most expensive interface adapter available for the GoFlex system at $99.99 and doesn't even include the necessary Thunderbolt cable which costs $50 alone. 

Magma ExpressBox 3T Offers 3 External PCI Express Slots

 

 Magma has announced the ExpressBox 3T which is there latest product for expanding PCI Express slots externally. With this being one of the first Thunderbolt PCIe expansion slots with up to 10Gbps. You will be able to daisy chain not 1 or 2 Thunderbolt devices together but up to 6. It is geared toward video capture and editing, broadcast video, pro audio, communications, data acquisition but can be used for much more. Magma will start accepting preorder in 4Q(October 1st to the end of the year) with a price slightly under $1,000. If you are interested you can sign up on the company website to get more information. 

27" Thunderbolt Displays Finally Shipping To Stores

According to MacRumors Apple is beginning to ship 27" Thunderbolt Displays to stores and resellers in the coming weeks. Customers should now be able to experience the display in person and hopefully pick one up. The new Thunderbolt displays add all the different connections in just one cable, including firewire 800 port, three USB ports, and is also able to carry audio over, and there is even Gigabit Ethernet. You will also be able to daisy chain another display to another which will allow you to run two displays at once off one cable. Apple showed off these displays back in July and are presently available for pre-order for $999

Apple Outs Thunderbolt-To-Thunderbolt Cable

Apple has finally released a Thunderbolt cable today with a nice price tag to match it at $49. What's it good for you ask? How about blazing fast data transfer speeds of 10Gbps. There's not much you can use this Thunderbolt cable for right now. There are very few devices and peripherals that support this technology at the moment, but you can use it to connect your Thunderbolt-equipped MacBook Pro with your iMac and use it as an external display.

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