Elgato on Tuesday announced its unveiling into the storehouse market with its newThunderbolt SSD , a solid - land drive designed for usance with Macs equipped with a high - speed Thunderbolt connecter .
According to the company ’s website , the Thunderbolt SSD is capable of reading data point at a charge per unit of 270MBps — that data was gathered using a 15 - inch 2.2GHz Core i7 MacBook Pro and the Extended Test in theQuickBenchbenchmark tool . A Thunderbolt channel , based on the specification , can provide up to 10Gbps of data throughput .
The Thunderbolt SSD is available in two capacity . The 120 GB version is $ 430 . The 240 GB modelling is $ 700 . An Elgato representative said that the ride will be usable in the U.S. in a week , but the drive is uncommitted in Europe now .
The cause has only one Thunderbolt larboard , which means that if you have multiple Thunderbolt devices , the Elgato drive must be the last gadget in adaisy chain . The drive does not have FireWire or USB porthole .
Elgato is bang in the Mac community for its tv set - related products , such as its video capture devices and theEyeTVline of TV tuner . While Elgato ’s entering into the highly competitive storage market may seem uneven , the Thunderbolt SSD may be a good burst for the troupe . Elgato ’s mathematical product tend to attract the attention of users who make for with video , and these users prise fast data throughput , the sort that ’s offer up with Thunderbolt . The caller say it has a history in storage ; accord to the company ’s site , “ former flash - base products were powered by Elgato , ” and FireWire drives cames with Elgato package .
Thunderbolt made its debut on new Macs last year , and the Thunderbolt market for entrepot devices is still in its babyhood . The first Thunderbolt storage devices , targeted at gamy - end video recording production , were multi - drive RAID arrays that cost G of dollars . Affordable Thunderbolt drives for the universal consumer are few , but more are starting to make their way to market , with the recent release of devices such as LaCie’sLittle Big Diskand Seagate ’s GoFlex Thunderbolt arranger for the GoFlex portable driveway , as well as the announcement of Western Digital’sMy Book Thunderbolt Duo . Obviously , Elgato hopes to take advantage of the slight pickings in the consumer market with the release of its Thunderbolt SSD .
