RED STATION MINI

[Tehben Dean]

Yeah, where's the Thunderbolt love...?

[Paul Schneider]

Ordered.
But if any data transfer system needs a thunderbolt option its gotta be RED. Cut those offload times by half or more.

[Mark Toia]

Cool. Now we just need the redStation mini thunderbolt Hub.

Connected through Red rocket mobile mini via thunderbolt. :))))))

Cool stuff Jarred.

[Brian Iannone]

Thunderbolt won't improve the transfer speeds with the current-generation of REDMAGs. The bottleneck now is the interface on the REDMAG SSD itself. USB 3.0 will be way more than enough to completely use every bit of speed per second available. In fact, USB 3.0 is capable of transfer rates more than twice that supported by the REDMAG.

I wouldn't expect RED to release a Thunderbolt-equipped RED STATION until they come out with some faster REDMAGs. eSATA and USB 3.0 are perfectly capable of maxing out the current REDMAG transfer rates for now.

Remember that Thunderbolt supplies 10 Gbps of bandwidth per channel. That's four times faster than what the REDMAG is capable of transferring at.

[Jason Diamond]

Ordered one!

FYI, Jarred the store description still says it comes with a usb cable for power. assuming thats a typo since there's no USB on this lil guy.

This is sweet thanks!

[Thomas Koch]

USB to 5v power cable. My redstation has one. goes into the power port on the back of the red station

[Bob Gundu]

Thanks Brian. I was hoping for thunderbolt only because of ease using the newer generation MacBooks that only have thunderbolt. If I could just daisy chain an external TB drive with the reader, I'd be a happy camper.

Thunderbolt won't improve the transfer speeds with the current-generation of REDMAGs. The bottleneck now is the interface on the REDMAG SSD itself. USB 3.0 will be way more than enough to completely use every bit of speed per second available. In fact, USB 3.0 is capable of transfer rates more than twice that supported by the REDMAG.

I wouldn't expect RED to release a Thunderbolt-equipped RED STATION until they come out with some faster REDMAGs. eSATA and USB 3.0 are perfectly capable of maxing out the current REDMAG transfer rates for now.

Remember that Thunderbolt supplies 10 Gbps of bandwidth per channel. That's four times faster than what the REDMAG is capable of transferring at.

[Ian B. Johnson]

Thunderbolt won't improve the transfer speeds with the current-generation of REDMAGs. The bottleneck now is the interface on the REDMAG SSD itself. USB 3.0 will be way more than enough to completely use every bit of speed per second available. In fact, USB 3.0 is capable of transfer rates more than twice that supported by the REDMAG.

I wouldn't expect RED to release a Thunderbolt-equipped RED STATION until they come out with some faster REDMAGs. eSATA and USB 3.0 are perfectly capable of maxing out the current REDMAG transfer rates for now.

Remember that Thunderbolt supplies 10 Gbps of bandwidth per channel. That's four times faster than what the REDMAG is capable of transferring at.

Max data rate of the SSD's being lower than the thunderbolt bandwidth limit doesn't really matter. It's faster than FW, it daisy chains better, and it's on my Mac. USB 3.0 may be an option, but it certainly doesn't render thunderbolt unnecessary.

[Gavin Greenwalt]

USB 3.0 is next ( End of this month )

So we should wait until the end of this month to buy the RED STATION MINI 2? Or this will get USB 3.0 through firmware update?

[Jason Diamond]

So we should wait until the end of this month to buy the RED STATION MINI 2? Or this will get USB 3.0 through firmware update?

How would this unit use USB3? There's no way to make the esata or FW800 function as USB3 no?

My guess is its a separate unit.