List Price: $959.99
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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program The advantage of Thunderbolt attached drives is speed comparable to having the drives connected directly. In this product the drives are two 10,000 RPM Velociraptors, some of the fastest non-SSD hard drives you can find. The tradeoff is that they are not cheap, lack the larger capacity of slower drives and are a bit noisier.
Like the other My Book models, there is quite a bit of heat generated, but its less of a concern here ate least with regard to the drives. Specifically, the other My Books use Green drives which are not as robust as the Velociraptors. Also the Velociraptors are actually 2.5 inch drives within a frame that acts like a heatsink. There doesn't appear to be any differences in the case materials or cooling between this and the other models (this one does include a Thunderbolt cable), its still a cheap case.
Because of the steep differential in price between this and the next model down, there really needs to be a need to have that extra bit of speed to justify getting this especially with the ability to daisychain Thunderbolt devices so two slightly slower devices could be used at the same time. This meets the needs of a very small niche but is overkill for everyone else.
Other issues:
No off switch.
Needs reformatting for use with Windows.
The device will only work with the supplied drives. It is designed to lockout on anything else.
The device is only accessible via Thunderbolt.
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