LaCie announces Thunderbolt external hard drive

Intel announced a completely new I/O peripheral protocol today called Thunderbolt, which had previously gone by the code name Light Peak. In a nutshell, Thunderbolt is a superfast peripheral standard with the speed of 10Gbps (1.25GBps) and almost no overhead.

This means devices can be connected at a real-word throughput speed of around 1.25GBps. Thunderbolt is compatible with DisplayPort 1.1 and later.

Currently, the technology is available only in Apple’s new MacBook Pro (which comes with one Thunderbolt port) and can be used only with DisplayPort devices, such as Apple’s Cinema display. But that will change soon.

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Tags: DisplayPort, External Hard Drive, Intel, Intel Thunderbolt, Light Peak, portable storage, Thunderbolt

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