Inc announced today its MiniSAS 8088 controller card

Newer Technology, Inc announced today its MiniSAS 8088 controller card line. Available in a choice of two external ports or one internal/one external port configurations, the MiniSAS 8088 cards provide full data transfer of four drives through a single cable connection for up to twice the data transfer speed offered by the SATA 2.0 (3Gb/s) data bus. Both versions of the MiniSAS 8088 controller card are available now form Other World Computing.There was the suggestion that the cost of Thunderbolt cables was in-line with other high-speed cables such as external MiniSAS 8088 (Serial Attached SCSI) and Infiniband, both of which have been available for years now. Now, I can understand the high cost of these cables, which are used by specialty, high-performance applications. But Thunderbolt?Sep 22, 2011 - I have a Vertex 3 and my OWC SSD is in the mail to me today and I'd like to have a solution MiniSAS 8088 for making full use of their speed.Just like a four-lane highway offers the fastest vehicle traffic flow, mini-SAS offers more “lanes” for data to travel at higher speeds. This interface offers the convenience of a one-cable connection but provides four separate channels so each drive can deliver its maximum data transfer rate. Now, with a MiniSAS 8088 controller card, one or more mini-SAS equipped external storage enclosures like the OWC Mercury Rack Pro can be utilized for greater speed, protection, or both; compared to single-channel, multi-drive eSATA RAID or eSATA Port Multiplier solutions