
But at the same time, I remember when we were rev… gavbon86: RT I get why the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti exists.There's no reason they couldn't be used-including in their Thunderbolt iteration, presumably-to connect SSDs (along with 2.5"-3.5" adapters as required, of course). I have several USB 3.0 GoFlex adapters left over after buying FIreWire versions, and they work just fine for connecting bare SATA drives. You're right about GoFlex having a standard SATA interface, and people need to understand that. There is plenty of inferior USB 3.0 product out there, and the acceptance rate reflects it, but one would think Apple would be able to develop superior what is the "most certain tangible improvement" that arises in the scenario that r3 postulated-which is different than the one you posed-using a Thunderbolt port rather than a USB 3.0 port? Isn't the inherent disk speed a limiting factor in that scenario, as r3 says? Even if Thunderbolt's throughput is greater, most users may not transfer two or three figures of GB often enough to feel that it justifies spending more for the interface than they spent on the hard drive itself. Is that somehow a good thing for Apple users? The "no support from Intel" reason given by Steve Jobs was clearly baloney: it's not hurting other manufacturers of computers and peripherals. In this case, r3 made a valid point about Apple artificially limiting its customers' choices, for no apparent good reason. There's nothing wrong with being a fan as long as one doesn't get carried away to the point of no longer being rational. You know, the "speck in your brother's eye, log in your own eye" thing. You might want to try to say things that don't apply even more to yourselves than to the object of your derision.

As if your and r3's comments weren't emotion-laden.

After seeing nothing but Thunderbolt storage devices with built in, overpriced drives, Seagate is going to be delivering the first GoFlex docks with Thunderbolt support.
