Appple ThunderBolt Backup Drives

There's more Apple ThunderBolt external drive solutions to choose from than ever! With both single and multi-drive storage products using either conventional hard drive or solid-state SSD technology, there's a wide range of affordable consumer to high-capacity professional ThunderBolt drives available.

*NEW* Seagate ThunderBolt Drive Bundle!

3TB Drive + ThunderBolt Dock + Cable

ThunderBolt MyBook Drives

Western Digital 4TB & 6TB

TBolt RAID Drives

Promise Pegasus Drives with ThunderBolt Ports

Just when you thought the promise of SuperSpeed USB 3.0 drives were soon going to take the pain out of long OSX system backup and restore procedures, or greuling 1st time Time-Machine backups or OSX drive cloning -- Along comes Intel and Apple with thier initial release of THUNDERBOLT. Offering more than twice the potential bandwidth of USB 3.0 - and literally 20 times that of USB 2.0 -- a 10Gbps ThunderBolt backup drive can make copying, transferring and backing up a ton of data happen in mere seconds minutes.

ThunderBolt Mac

Flash Memory Storage

ThunderBolt HDD Drives

Solid-State Disks

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Apple ThunderBolt Drives : Ultra-Fast Backups For Mac

The second generations of Apple ThunderBolt backup drive solutions have reached the market. We're seeing far more affordable ThunderBolt Hard Drives with prices under $200. Seagate ships affordable and very versatile consumer oriented ThunderBolt backup drive solutions with its GoFlex and Backup Plus drives, ThunderBolt adapter and cable bundles like the Seagate GoFlex 1TB Portable Hard Drive for Mac with Thunderbolt Adapter and Cable.

We're also seeing the emergence of combo interface hard drives for Mac that incorporate BOTH USB 3.0 and ThunderBolt ports on the drive. Additionaly, ThunderBolt SSD drive solutions are getting much cheaper as solid-state SSD drive prices have plummeted in the past year.

Shipping ThunderBolt Backup Drives For Mac

LaCie 1TB ThunderBolt Platter Drive	NEW Combo USB3 + ThunderBolt	LaCie ThunderBolt 2TB Platter Drive
1TB ThunderBolt Drive Dual 500GB Drives	Cheap COMBO Laptop Drive USB 3.0 + ThunderBolt All Cables Included!	2TB LaCie ThunderBolt Drive Dual 1 Terabyte Drives

It isn't just Pro Video Editors, Music Studios or DVD and Photo Archive Companies that benefit from Mac backups and auxillary storage over ThunderBolt. Anyone who has large sets of data to move from point A to B will appreciate the lighting speed ThunderBolt ports can provide.

If there's one 'gotcha' to reading from - or backing up to - a ThunderBolt harddrive, it's limitations in the current speed of conventional mechanical hard drives. Even Solid-State SSD hard drives for Mac and Windows backups need 2 or more drives for truly impressive ThunderBolt performance. (Remember, ThunderBolt is a cross-platform technology that will benefit both Apple and PC users.) While 2 to 4 times faster than mechanical hard drives, even the fastest single SSD made can't fill even half of ThunderBolt's amazing data pipeline. Currently ElGato offers a single-SSD TBolt solution. LaCie offers a dual-SSD TBolt option in it's Little Big Disk line.

ThunderBolt SSD Drives For Mac

ThunderBolt Dual SSD Drive	NEW Combo USB3 + ThunderBolt	ElGato Solid-State Drives
LaCie TBolt SSD RAID 256x2 - 512GB ThunderBolt Dual SSD Drive	LaCie Rugged SSD Drive Combo USB 3.0 and TBolt Interfaces	ElGato 120 or 240 SSD * Cable Sold Separately *

The ONLY technology that can truly leverage 10GBps TBolt and provide best Mac backup speeds is in multi-drive platter arrays -- or pairs of flash-memory based SSD ThunderBolt drives. The most demanding, data-intensive commercial users will want multiple-drive ThunderBolt RAID storage systems using 2 or more SSD's for peak throughput. However, benchmarks have shown that conventional drives in RAID units of 4 or more are highly efficient spanning reads and writes across mechanical drives and deliver suprisingly fast reads and writes at a musch lower cost per Gigabyte than SSD solutions.