thuderbolt is intel's newest data connector. there's a few things I like about it (personally) mostly is that it's a really dead simple docking station type connector. You can push data over it at uber high speeds. and while usb3 is great n all, I suspect your future multi-drive raids will move over from esata to thunderbolt.
for one. you can daisy chain like a madman... ideally your laptop that supports thunderbolt would connect to a 30"+ screen, that is plugged into your keyboard mouse and also pluggs into your uber fast hdd raid array. you can save data at highspeeds to the drive all the while serving up 1080p video to your screen w/o dropping a frame. (nice) but on a desktop, you loose the fun and fancy docking station via a single wire. instead you can leverage multi-monitor support like gangbusters. serving up hd video to multiple screen transmitting data at high rates etc. at this stage, I've notice the current crop of mobo's do support thunderbolt but not the full spec I think they have the smaller intel chip, which is just sad, but it'll be interesting how well they perform. -Francisco http://bit.ly/sqlthis | Tsql and More... <http://db.tt/JeXURAx> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:45 PM, FORC5 <[email protected]> wrote: > on a motherboard. > must support ivy bridge and ssd caching. Asus has one that has a onboard > ssd, not sure what I think about that. > > been out of the loop, doesn't take long. > > CPU will most likely be a ivy bridge > i7-3770k or a i5-3570k > > what the hell is thunderbolt ? > > making my brain hurt >:-o > my simple OS upgrade is turning into a major job. But the old os will do > duty in the shop, maybe replace the server. > thanks > fp > > -- > Tallyho ! ]:8) > Taglines below ! > -- > Memory Manager: Something I need more than my computer. > >
