Intel’s prototypeThunderbolt Flash Drive puts the competition to shame

[ETRJ]

http://vr-zone.com/articles/intels-prototypethunderbolt-flash-drive-puts-the-competition-to-shame/35393.html

I think this would be good to make other companies push harder to reach higher speeds

[Nort]

Doesn't Thunderbolt cost boatloads of money?

[Cypher32]

This will not push anything, thunderbolt is too expensive and not widespread enough for other companies to even care. Even my friends with macbooks don't care about thunderbolt.

[LAwLz]

I wonder what the actual read/write speed is, since the 10Gbps they mention in the article is just the limit of the connector, not the actual flash or controller.

[mgsstar]

Not everyone has Thunderbolt. I have only seen Thunderbolt in high end motherboards so don't think this will be very useful for consumers.

[Ddm5]

Not everyone has Thunderbolt. I have only seen Thunderbolt in high end motherboards so don't think this will be very useful for consumers.

I'd say it'll be popular among the people who own Apple devices?

[fishymamba]

My motherboard has Thunderbolt, but I still have not used it. I might use it in the future with a NAS or other external storage, but other than that I do not see a use for it.

[matin94]

Doesn't Thunderbolt cost boatloads of money?

yeah but its new, just like SSDs when they were released

[TechFan@ic]

Thunderbolt has a serious issue with bandwidth, the entire thunderbolt bandwidth is spread across the ports, so the more thunderbolt devices you use, the slower the speeds you're going to get, USB3 doesn't have this issue.

[Maskot]

It's like Betamax and VHS, Betamax was always better, but VHS could store twice as much information, USB is already out there in use while Thunderbolt will need to have partners and what not, plus it wont be on any AMD motherboard soon.

[EChondo]

I'd say it'll be popular among the people who own Apple devices?

It sure will, because they are forced to use it.

 

yeah but its new, just like SSDs when they were released

Yeah and look at the adoption rates of SSD's, it's slow, but sooner or later it'll come around.

 

Also I doubt many non-tech people actually know what a SSD is, let alone Thunderbolt.

[w_km]

This will not push anything, thunderbolt is too expensive and not widespread enough for other companies to even care. Even my friends with macbooks don't care about thunderbolt.

LOL.  Duh...because 99% of people with Macbooks don't know or care about anything tech related.   :blink:

[beebskadoo]

See the reason Thunderbolt isn't popular is Intel. It's too expensive and not implemented. USB 3.0 is still king and it just makes sense. 

[EricX2]

Thunderbolt is still pretty new. It is on all Apple devices computers, but for normal file transfers and storage devices it doesn't seem like it's a tremendous difference. It is faster, but if it isn't supported by devices it will be like firewire.

[Ddm5]

It sure will, because they are forced to use it.

 

Yeah and look at the adoption rates of SSD's, it's slow, but sooner or later it'll come around.

 

Also I doubt many non-tech people actually know what a SSD is, let alone Thunderbolt.

I second both of what you said and yea, they are pretty much forced to use thunderbolt.