[jqp]

I saw that Gigabyte has a new consumer motherboard with the Intel technology, Thunderbolt. So now that Apple is not the exclusive provider of Thunderbolt tech, we can get non-apple monitors, drives, external video cards, hubs, etc. that use this tech.

[JohnR]

It would be good to have more devices available. However Apple don't make any TB accessories, apart from the TB display and I don't really see the point of that.

One thing I simply don't understand are the single-HDD Thunderbolt drives. I guess it saves you using the USB port...

Anyway I'm using a LaCie Thunderbolt ESATA hub with a pair of OWC Dual Mini enclosures, one with two HDDs in RAID 1 and one with two Intel SDDs in RAID 0. The latter is my boot drive and is giving me about 230 MB/s sequential (I think it was...) but the random read/write for small files is very fast. The monitor is daisy chained into it's Display Port from the TB hub.