From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: July 27, 2012 10:31:49 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Thunderbolt dock

You may want to check out this:

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Thunderbolt/PCIe_Chassis/Mercury_Helios/

which is a Thunderbolt to PCI-E card expansion box and is supposed to be available in 10 days. Will it be any better than Sonnet's Express Card product - no one knows. Hopefully it will at least provide power to Firewire which Sonnet's doesn't do.

As to the others, until they are actually shipping they are vapor ware - just like Apples Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter which still hasn't been heard of since announced in June. And I really wonder how well these chassises will work outdoors - especially at -40°C or in dewy condensing or dusty conditions too.  They aren't designed for outdoor use at all.

I have read quite a few reviews by people have had issues with using Thunderbolt for anything other than Mass Storage devices - so how stable they are or will be is a crap shoot.

TTYL..

Milton J. Aupperle

On 26-Jul-12, at 8:48 PM, Dave Goodyear wrote:

Anyone seen this yet?  A Thunderbolt Dock from Belkin coming in September?

Looks promising..  Thoughts:

http://www.belkin.com/thunderbolt/

Dave Goodyear

KB2 Networks Inc.

214 Main St. #318

El Segundo, CA  90245

310-933-2436

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