RED STATION MINI

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I'm sure we'll see a Thunderbolt one sooner or later. By this time next year, it will be hard to buy a new PC without Thunderbolt. ...Just sayin'

[BrandonChristensen]

Awesome. Will buy as soon as I get my Scarlet up and running.

[Mitch Martinez]

Just what the doctor ordered. Looking forward to USB 3.0 and/or Thunderbolt on future models.

[Mike Halper]

Perhaps you are thinking of a different amount of data that I'm thinking about... In my opinion, daisy-chaining high-bandwidth devices is not even an option. However, I suppose everyone has their own opinion about how long they're willing to wait to transfer a certain amount of data.

I prefer dedicated links for each device. If an anomaly were to appear, it would be simple to identify the issue. There are too many factors in a daisy-chain system when you're dealing with large amounts of data.

The transfer speed doesn't decrease to nearly as low a level as you think it does when daisy-chaining. Yes, it would decrease, but there would still be well more than enough bandwidth to handle transfers from a Redmag or two, or even three or four. And having a dedicated bus for every single device is not always an option or possibility.

[Brian Iannone]

The transfer speed doesn't decrease to nearly as low a level as you think it does when daisy-chaining. Yes, it would decrease, but there would still be well more than enough bandwidth to handle transfers from a Redmag or two, or even three or four. And having a dedicated bus for every single device is not always an option or possibility.

Yep, you are correct.

[Tom Lowe]

USB 3.0 is next ( End of this month )

Now we're talking.

[Peter Cote]

USB will be a separate mini station... mostly for the PC guys.

Thunderbolt we continue to look into.. but there are a few issues... like no Tower support for Mac's.

"If you build it, they will come..."

[Demetri Zuev]

Nice one!

Jarred, do yo have a picture of the old one and the new one side by side?

[Anderson Boyd]

ESATA 1.8" station has been a killer and totally pleasant workflow experience, but yea, since it's on topic I'd buy 2 or 3 Thunderbolt capable stations myself. It's crazy fast and has taken my workflow from simple Apple cinema monitor to a proper broadcast monitor via Promise Pegasus RAID/Ultrastudio 3D enabled editing station and I have never been happier with RED workflow and transfer/bandwidth speeds. Just got to get myself a Rocket and Sonnet PCI enclosure!

[Marcus Vasques Osorio]

Jarred, is it ESATA II or ESATA III?

Marcus