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<blockquote data-quote="Dysfunction" data-source="post: 1355732" data-attributes="member: 51052"><p>Thunderbolt is a data path. Data includes graphical data <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Think of it that way. It's <em>essentially</em> an extension of the PCIe bus, with displayport data on the same cable. </p><p></p><p>This is why you plug the Cinema display into the thunderbolt port and it also has a USB/FW hub in the display (along with audio).</p><p></p><p></p><p>Right now there are precious few thunderbolt compatible drives. That will change, especially as we see PC manufacturers adopting it this year. I can state that ~300GB of data transferred from a FW800 external drive in about 1.5 hours last night. That includes the overhead of Migration Assistant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dysfunction, post: 1355732, member: 51052"] Thunderbolt is a data path. Data includes graphical data ;) Think of it that way. It's [I]essentially[/I] an extension of the PCIe bus, with displayport data on the same cable. This is why you plug the Cinema display into the thunderbolt port and it also has a USB/FW hub in the display (along with audio). Right now there are precious few thunderbolt compatible drives. That will change, especially as we see PC manufacturers adopting it this year. I can state that ~300GB of data transferred from a FW800 external drive in about 1.5 hours last night. That includes the overhead of Migration Assistant. [/QUOTE]
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