The promise and the first tests of the cases RAID boxes convinced us to invest in a Thunderbolt cable "to play with".
Having two compatible Mac, a MacBook Pro 2011 and a iMac 21,1" 2011 but not a RAID box, we decided to test Thunderbolt while making what seems to us most natural, and something that we practiced over the years with Firewire, that is to use the Target mode.
The two discs of MacBook Pro were perfectly recognized and mounted just as one would find with Firewire 400 or 800. With Thunderbolt we thought that the SSD, a Crucial M4 would have data flows close to those that one has using it as an internal disk. We are very far from this.
As you can see, one reaches a maximum at less than 50 MB/s in writing and less than 74 MB/s in reading. One is very far from the data flow of this disc. Admittedly, the Target mode is certainly not the best illustration that one can make with Thunderbolt, but we had really hoped that this mode would be effective and very fast, imagining even to be able to use the internal disk of a portable as a startup disk for an iMac. The only hope is the wish that it is a residual bug of Thunderbolt or that something skewed our tests (however we repeated them on several occasions).
