By Chris Foresman, Ars Technica. The first Thunderbolt compatible peripherals - Promise's Pegasus RAIDs - started shipping on Tuesday. Using the RAIDs with a Thunderbolt equipped Mac, though, requires a rather expensive $50 cable that is only available from Apple. We dug into the design of the cable to find out why Apple felt justified in charging $50 for some plastic-wrapped copper wire, and why Thunderbolt may have a hard time gaining traction outside of the higher-end storage and video device market - a fate similar to Apple's FireWire.
Promise's RAIDs do not come supplied with a Thunderbolt cable.
Gadget Lab, The Tech Inside Apple's $50 Thunderbolt Cable
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