Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis : Basic Details

Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis lets you to use your PCIe-based devices connected with Thunderbolt-equipped Mac computer or non Apple Thumderbolt port PCs. Thunderbolt Interface and Thunderbolt Ports are found on newer faster Mac Desktops and Laptops; i.e. MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac and Mac Pro. Previously we have discussed about hunderbolt Interface and the Thunderbolt Technology itself. This article on Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis is an important article because many people are still can not find the way how to upgrade or swap their existing storage devices and non storage devices with these kind of cheaper yet robust, practically permanent solution as an upgrade.

Basics on Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis and Other Thunderbolt Expansion Options

Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis is basically not like our USB External Casing, where the technology is well known and various kind of solutions are available. As clearly there are two options namely :

• Thunderbolt Adapter for Storage Devices
• Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis for all kind of devices those needs to be connected via the Thunderbolt interface

We need to mention two line of products separately.

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Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis and Thunderbolt Adapter

Clearly, the Thunderbolt Adapter is for portable Hard Drive with older interface or internally used interface. You are actually upgrading your device’s interface for faster, 10 Gbps Thunderbolt performance. For example, Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter is such a solution :

And the second, costly option is the Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis & Rackmount Enclosures, for example :

Understanding the range of usage is quite important to save your hard earned cash.