See that cute little glowing blue-eyed device in between Mama and Papa RAID arrays? Junior is the LaCie eSATA Hub we saw at CES, and its job is to connect a pair of external eSATA drives to a Thunderbolt port like the one you might have on your recently purchased Apple machine. LaCie says the device is now on sale for the rather substantial price of $199 from the company’s online store, and though we’re not actually seeing available for purchase quite yet, we imagine it’ll arrive soon.
LaCie’s pricey eSATA Hub connects two drives to your Thunderbolt port for $199
LaCie says the eSATA Hub is now on sale at its store. The device connects two eSATA drives to a Thunderbolt port.
LaCie says the eSATA Hub is now on sale at its store. The device connects two eSATA drives to a Thunderbolt port.
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Since the device only uses eSATA 3Gb/s ports rather than the newer eSATA 6Gb/s, you won’t be able to take advantage of the full speed of the latest solid state drives, but you can add capacity by daisy-chaining: since there’s a pair of Thunderbolt ports on the eSATA Hub, you can connect up to six Thunderbolt devices in total to max out the bandwidth. Remember, though, the bleeding edge isn’t cheap: though eSATA cables cost just a few dollars apiece, you’re looking at a $50 investment per cable for the Thunderbolt variety.
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