pss wrote:let's see....with a USB 3 port you can connect.... an external HD....the latest SSDs now shipping are faster then USB3...
with TB you can connect...an external HD, 2 or 3 monitors and a PCIe breakout box....all on the same port....ok, all of it at once might slow one of these down a bit, but that is why you have 2 ports....
the best thing about the BMCC is the thunderbolt port (afaik it is also the reason why shipping has been delayed a bit...)....every piece of equipment should have one....bandwidth just isn't an issue anymore....and it will only get better....
The SSDs may be faster, than USB3, but that only helps when you copy from one SSD to an other SSD.
If you copy to HDD the HDD speed is the bottle neck.
Yes, you can daisy-chain TB, so you need (for your example) 3-4 expensive TB cables. Why is that any benefit over having 3-4 cheap usual cables? Monitors don't run faster on TB. A PCI breakout box for what?
Apple doesn't even support external graphic cards. So what do you put in that expensive box?
The only use I can see in the moment for TB, are some of the new external video boxes, but they don't do anything, the BM cards don't do anyway, without having more external cluster, AC adapters and cables.
Frank