Synology and Thunderbolt??

[Olivier C]

Hello,

Can we expect a Synology with a thunderbolt port?
Like on the Promise Pegasus Rx Serie?

Would be great!

I need speed

Ollie

[tripod]

I would love to see this.

I like the Pegasus one but having to buy the drives makes it a deal breaker for me. Way too expensive and I'd have lots of spare disks lying around which I have already invested in.

I'd buy 2 immediately and maybe a third for offsite.

[maxxfi]

Thunderbolt doesn't have much sense in a NAS (apart perhaps to plug disks expansions).
It's like asking to connect a NAS to the PC via a (ultrafast) USB: it defeats the sharing concept of a NAS.

[konfuzed]

Older topic I know but...I wonder why folks think a NAS has to be a one-trick pony, especially in the SOHO and satellite office sort of setups.

Having a lower-powered NAS is wonderful for remote backups, a lot of read-only access from other machines on a local network, scheduled activities and lower volume/less latency dependent tasks etc. But many of us have a main workstation which we prefer to have the fastest possible connection to our data because we have lots of random client requests and may be juggling a dozen different projects at once, and need to keep power, size, storage etc as concerns.

Personally, I'd love a thunderbolt enabled NAS so that I can move a lot of storage out of a workstation array but still have the speed of it when I need to work on and shuffle around a ton of files to my local machine, especially if they're longer term semi-archived projects. But then have the main machine off and just a much more streamlined and lower powered NAS for the rest of the time for maintenance activities and general or remote access when the need arises too.

Different setups for lots of different people and situations

[SynC187]

Jack of all trades, master of none comes to mind.

Yes, a few people might use this, but the majority of people won't so why make it more complicated and add something else to go wrong. I buy a NAS for basic functions. If I want lots of advanced features, I buy a proper server.

[konfuzed]

I fail to see how a speedy interconnect technology, which would be faster than the current expansion options available (eSATA, USB2 or 3) which also allows for more direct connection configurations in parallel is spreading a device intended to share content too thin.

Heck I think within a couple years you'll see eSATA dying utterly for multiple drive expansion options as Thunderbolt becomes the backplane option Intel intends it to be rather than the more limited bandwidth eSATA.

I think it's more a matter of timing and pricing once the hardware option is validated, as Qnap and Drobo are already showing.