[MarvinTurpin]

Hello , Im looking for a large thunderbolt storage solution for my video and photos....soon I will be getting one of the new full frame DSLR cameras from either Nikon or canon.....d800 or 5D mark iii. I plan on doing 1080p video on it a lot and have up graded my memory on my 2011 imac to 16 gigs....now i need fast storage....this is why im thinking thunder bolt but i like quality and reliability as well cost effective. Any experiences or suggestions would be appreciated. Even firewire 800.

[bastion]

MarvinTurpin, on 09 March 2012 - 11:08 PM, said:

Hello , Im looking for a large thunderbolt storage solution for my video and photos....soon I will be getting one of the new full frame DSLR cameras from either Nikon or canon.....d800 or 5D mark iii. I plan on doing 1080p video on it a lot and have up graded my memory on my 2011 imac to 16 gigs....now i need fast storage....this is why im thinking thunder bolt but i like quality and reliability as well cost effective. Any experiences or suggestions would be appreciated. Even firewire 800.

Today, Thunderbolt may not meet your requirement to be cost-effective but only you can answer that. Right now, though, you're paying a substantial premium over the equivalent FireWire 800 device. It should be faster, and to some extent you're (probably) buying some future-proofing but do those justify the cost? The answer is: maybe.

What I can strongly recommend is this: Avoid LaCie. It is not my observation that any vendor has consistently high failure rates than any other, but it is my observation and personal experience that if something *does* go wrong LaCie's support seems to be bottom of the barrel.

[MarvinTurpin]

bastion, on 10 March 2012 - 03:16 AM, said:

MarvinTurpin, on 09 March 2012 - 11:08 PM, said:

Hello , Im looking for a large thunderbolt storage solution for my video and photos....soon I will be getting one of the new full frame DSLR cameras from either Nikon or canon.....d800 or 5D mark iii. I plan on doing 1080p video on it a lot and have up graded my memory on my 2011 imac to 16 gigs....now i need fast storage....this is why im thinking thunder bolt but i like quality and reliability as well cost effective. Any experiences or suggestions would be appreciated. Even firewire 800.

Today, Thunderbolt may not meet your requirement to be cost-effective but only you can answer that. Right now, though, you're paying a substantial premium over the equivalent FireWire 800 device. It should be faster, and to some extent you're (probably) buying some future-proofing but do those justify the cost? The answer is: maybe.

What I can strongly recommend is this: Avoid LaCie. It is not my observation that any vendor has consistently high failure rates than any other, but it is my observation and personal experience that if something *does* go wrong LaCie's support seems to be bottom of the barrel.

Yeah I agree Lacie is not the way to go i have a dead 1 Tb unit sitting on the floor right now....but i am going to go thunderbolt just a question of who is coming out with what and how soon. I dont know if Raid is the way to go ...it seems i can store on a large ....lets say 6 to 8 TB drive system and get my back up on line in the cloud with something like crash plan.