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So it is always great when we see a portable drive that contains an SSD and uses USB 3.0, both of which should remove the USB 2.0 connector and mechanical drive bottlenecks which we regularly see. Thats where the MiniStaion SSD Edition enters, but Buff...
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It’s good to see Buffalo producing more products specifically for the Mac. Back in January we reviewed its MiniStation Thunderbolt, which was a neat little hard drive equipped with both Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 interfaces. This month they’ve come up wit...
High-speed SSD drive with both Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 interfaces...
not much difference between USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt interfaces...
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The Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt is another entry in the growing list of devices which use the newish Thunderbolt port. If you've got a recent MacBook Air then you'll have Thunderbolt connectivity, but if you have a PC then things are a bit trickier. M...
Low price compared to other Thunderbolt drives, Reasonably fast, Great design, Time Machine compatibility...
Standard hard drive limits speed, No second Thunderbolt port...
Overall the Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt is a decent Thunderbolt drive that performs well, but doesn't do enough to justify the upgrade if you're a PC user, thanks to the bottleneck created by using a standard hard drive.However, it is still a lot chea...
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macworld.com.au Updated: 2013-12-19 14:07:42
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Thunderbolt drives are still pretty expensive but they are starting to become more common now, so hopefully the arrival of drives such as Buffalo’s new MiniStation Thunderbolt will help to bring prices down.The MiniStation Thunderbolt is a neatly desig...
Fast and compact portable drive, with Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 interface...
Expensive; no bundled software, $279 (500GB); $329 (1TB)...
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Thunderbolt drives are still pretty expensive but they are starting to become more common now, so hopefully the arrival of drives such as Buffalo’s new MiniStation Thunderbolt will help to bring prices down. The MiniStation Thunderbolt is a neatly desi...
fast and compact portable drive, with Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 interface...
expensive, no bundled software...
The MiniStation Thunderbolt performs well, but like all Thunderbolt drives it is very expensive and many people may prefer to opt for a more affordable USB 3.0 drive instead. However, it's a good option for people who require a fast, portable drive that t...
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As its name suggests, Buffalo’s MiniStation Thunderbolt uses Intel’s Thunderbolt interface to double the amount of available bandwidth compared to its secondary USB3 interface. However, it uses a 500GB mechanical hard disk rather than an SSD, so Windows u...
Thunderbolt seems overkill for a 5,400RPM disk, although it may find a niche with Apple fans...
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Since the introduction of USB 3.0 in 2008, there have been a slew of portable 2.5-inch, SuperSpeed USB 3.0 based storage drives that offer a variety capacity points while offering transmission speeds up to a maximum of 5Gbps, which can give you up to 400M...
Dual interface offerings makes it versatile, Decent USB 3.0 performance...
Expensive, Bulky for a portable drive, No Thunderbolt daisychain capability, Thunderbolt has no advantage on basic HDDs...
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With the invention of the Thunderbolt interface, portable storage solutions have begun to transition allowing for increased performance, and even more than what we saw from USB 3.0. The Thunderbolt interface allows for users of Macintosh computers the muc...
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micromart.co.uk Updated: 2014-03-21 01:17:45
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As you'd expect from the clean white exterior and Thunderbolt support, the Buffalo Ministation Thunderbolt is a product aimed at Mac users. If there were any doubts, the fact that it arrives formatted for Macs dispels them. This presumably explains why it...
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techradar.com/au/ Updated: 2014-04-14 01:17:54
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The Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt is another entry in the growing list of devices which use the newish Thunderbolt port. If you've got a recent MacBook Air then you'll have Thunderbolt connectivity, but if you have a PC then things are a bit trickier.Mo...
Low price compared to other Thunderbolt drives, Reasonably fast, Great design, Time Machine compatibility...
Standard hard drive limits speed, No second Thunderbolt port...
Overall the Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt is a decent Thunderbolt drive that performs well, but doesn't do enough to justify the upgrade if you're a PC user, thanks to the bottleneck created by using a standard hard drive. However, it is still a lot ch...
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hardwareheaven.com Updated: 2014-07-16 01:25:09
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In the world of portable storage generally drives use USB 2.0, some use USB 3.0 and although they are an option products which use either eSATA and Firewire are much rarer. It is easy to understand why though, with USB being the most available interconnec...
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Buffalo Technology's MiniStation Thunderbolt joins a short list of portable flash drives that accommodate both Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 connections. That adds welcome versatility, enabling connection to Windows PCs with their ‘5 Gb/s' USB 3.0 ports, while...
dual Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 ports, cool looks and tactile casework...
retarded even by standards of other slow Thunderbolt portable drives, expensive...
Portable Thunderbolt flash drives are still failing to live up to performance expectations, and the Buffalo is no exception. Its looks and tactility will recommend it to anyone taken by its neat form, but at £295 – or 115 pence per gigabyte – faster and c...
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Thunderbolt is the name used for a technology used to connect external hard drives and other devices to your computer (your computer and the device must both have Thunderbolt ports). It's expensive, but if you work professionally with very big files, it...
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Not the smallest 500GB drive around, however it will sit happily on your desk and is still small enough to travel with you in a case or bag. The coverage from me for Apple products is small and rarely goes beyond various ‘i' items. Here however the white...
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Portable Thunderbolt 2013 is shaping up to be the year that Thunderbolt, a nascent hardware interface, is outfitted to mainstream external-storage and display devices. Providing PCI-Express speeds and a DisplayPort interface, with up to 10W of DC power do...
Can be supremely fast, Excellent build quality, Thunderbolt and USB 3.0ready...
Feels expensive; should be below £150, SSD writing speed isn't the best...
Buffalo understands that getting the most out of portable external storage requires pairing a fast SSD with an enclosure sporting a Thunderbolt interface. The firm does precisely this with its MiniStation Thunderbolt Portable SSD by housing a Micron/Cruc...
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chip.com.my Updated: 2016-12-01 05:52:33
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Thunderbolt. One word to denote speed and performance, along with our undying excitement. With the bevy of Thunderbolt-supporting Intel motherboards made available now, it's hard to ignore the term. Even harder to ignore are Thunderbolt devices, such as t...
Clean, solid built, Thunderbolt and USB3.0 support, Excellent speeds...
No bundled software, No FireWire support...
Without a doubt, the great transfer speeds and solid build easily makes the Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt a force to be reckoned with. You may miss the lack of FireWire support and the few preloaded software that would've been useful, but as a Thunderb...
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Since the introduction of USB 3.0 in 2008, there have been a slew of portable 2.5-inch, SuperSpeed USB 3.0 based storage drives that offer a variety capacity points while offering transmission speeds up to a maximum of 5Gbps, which can give you up to 400M...
Dual interface offerings makes it versatile, Decent USB 3.0 performance...
Expensive, Bulky for a portable drive, No Thunderbolt daisy-chain capability, Thunderbolt has no advantage on basic HDDs...
Like its soft and muted exterior, the Buffalo MinStation Thunderbolt performance on its Thunderbolt interface wasn't outstanding.We applaud the efforts of Buffalo in their efforts to bring Thunderbolt to the masses in the form of this portable HDD drive t...
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tbreak.ae Updated: 2016-12-01 05:52:34
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Since Apple was the first company to release a Thunderbolt supporting product, on their MacBook Pros, it comes as no surprise that most external HDD manufacturers are making their drives specifically for Macs. Today we’ll be looking at the Buffalo 500G...
Excellent speeds on both Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 and neat design...
Relatively slow hard drive doesn't take advantage of Thunderbolt so both USB 3.0 & Thunderbolt speeds are identical.
There’s no doubt that the Buffalo 500GB MiniStation Thunderbolt is a very capable and very fast drive. The only downside, if you can consider it as such, is that the internal 2.5-inch drive is what actually limits the performance of Thunderbolt, so muc...
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