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You Can Boot From a Thunderbolt Drive

Posted June 29, 2011 at 7:32pm by iClarified · 8565 views
The first Thunderbolt accessories have been released and users will be happy to know that they can boot from their Thunderbolt drives.

AnandTech received a Promise Pegasus R6 Thunderbolt RAID system and confirmed the news on Twitter.

@anandshimpi BTW, can you boot from Thunderbolt? That is the biggest concern of mine atm.

@HellhammerMR yep, it is bootable :)


Thunderbolts speed will make running an OS from an external drive much faster than previously possible; however, it will still be a while before consumer grade Thunderbolt accessories are available.

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