I love my new MacBook Pro with Retina Display.
However, I don't love that there are just 8 devices that are Thunderbolt-enabled (http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt/). I also really don't love that each cable costs $50.
My backup drive, while very pretty, has horribly broken itself and needs to be replaced. I don't FireWire, don't want another USB3 drive (because I hate to connect to storage or audio I/O through a hub and need the USB ports for the latter), and would kick myself every time I had to wait for slower tech, so I feel that Thunderbolt, though expensive and lacking selection, is the way to go.
While I would love a Promise Pegasus, the $2000 price tag is insane. I would rather invest that in a musical instrument.
Now, the Little BigDisk, the cheapest of the Thunderbolt drives, (http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10549) is $549 for 2TB. It would be silly not to spend the extra $50 to get a 2big (http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10573#a3), which is actually a great product, and can be used in RAID 1 for security.
But... $599 for a hard drive and another $50 for a cable? Have I lost my mind?
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