Thunderbolt for PC does it still exist?

[pascil]

I've looking for Thunderbolt storage devices since a while but did not found anything except for USB external drives. Thunderbolt PCI-E Cards cost like a 1/4 of my PC and FireWire which has also no single storage drive left costs like nothing and is dead too. Is USB the ultimate superior and Thunderbolt only used for Displays or what happened to Thunderbolt Storage?

[ShadowCaptain]

I've looking for Thunderbolt storage devices since a while but did not found anything except for USB external drives. Thunderbolt PCI-E Cards cost like a 1/4 of my PC and FireWire which has also no single storage drive left costs like nothing and is dead too. Is USB the ultimate superior and Thunderbolt only used for Displays or what happened to Thunderbolt Storage?

 

thunderbolt still exists and is on some high end motherboards, but thunderbolt devices are expensive

 

Honestly USB 3 drives are fast enough - you only need thunderbolt if you are running PCI/Raid 0 SSDs externally 

 

There might be USB 3.1 drives soon, which are the same speed as Thunderbolt 1

[blu4]

Thunderbolt is more a Apple thing, #PCMASTERRACE uses USB 3.0 and 3.1 recently.

[ShadowCaptain]

Thunderbolt is more a Apple thing, #PCMASTERRACE uses USB 3.0 and 3.1 recently.

 

Sort of, but there is no reason for it to be, there is nothing proprietary about it, thunderbolt is just at home on PC as it is on Apple, there is just nobody pushing for it

Which sucks because its awesome

 

BUT USB 3.1 wil fix that

[Captain_WD]

I've looking for Thunderbolt storage devices since a while but did not found anything except for USB external drives. Thunderbolt PCI-E Cards cost like a 1/4 of my PC and FireWire which has also no single storage drive left costs like nothing and is dead too. Is USB the ultimate superior and Thunderbolt only used for Displays or what happened to Thunderbolt Storage?

 

Hey there pascil,

 

As @ShadowCaptain pointed out, some high-end motherboards offer Thunderbolt ports. There are external drives such as WD My Passport Pro and WD My Book Thunderbolt Duo that use this port and can be reformatted in order to be used on a PC so I don't think it's an outdated port rather than just Mac computers are using it much more.

There are other ports that are becoming more and more popular (like USB3.0 and USB3.1) that also allow much faster speeds. 

 

Captain_WD.

[Jaybird]

Thunderbolt is more a Apple thing, #PCMASTERRACE uses USB 3.0 and 3.1 recently.

I just want to make you aware that thunderbolt is actually an Intel thing. Sorry if I spoiled your #pcmaaterrace #intelmasterrace

[blu4]

I just want to make you aware that thunderbolt is actually an Intel thing. Sorry if I spoiled your #pcmaaterrace #intelmasterrace

I didn't say it was made by apple, I said it's more widely implemented by apple.

[ShadowCaptain]

 

SNIP

 

 

 

Well said Cap

 

 

Also worth pointing out is that a single 7200rpm mechanical hard drive will typically max out at around 100MB/s so thunderbolt is a complete waste, usb 3 is all you need to get the fastest transfer speed

 

 

I just want to make you aware that thunderbolt is actually an Intel thing. Sorry if I spoiled your #pcmaaterrace #intelmasterrace

 

yup 10/10 have a cookie :3

[Captain_WD]

Well said Cap

 

 

Also worth pointing out is that a single 7200rpm mechanical hard drive will typically max out at around 100MB/s so thunderbolt is a complete waste, usb 3 is all you need to get the fastest transfer speed

 

Indeed, current HDDs rarely exceed 150Mb/s - 160MB/s so unless used in a RAID array that would combine the speeds of several drives it's a bit pointless to have such a high limit purely for the drive's speed.  

[ALwin]

Well there is Thunderbolt 3 which is rated at 40Gb/s.

RAID arrays benefit from Thunderbolt speeds, and if it can ever be implemented properly, external PCIe graphics cards. It's also useful for displays.

Thunderbolt 3 cables are USB type C compatible.

https://thunderbolttechnology.net/blog/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-does-it-all