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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.The MAXPower RAID MiniSAS 8088 card features two external mini-SAS ports that enable connecting and RAIDing multi-drive mini-SAS external enclosures or up to eight eSATA external enclosures via MiniSAS 8088. For Mac and PC users who want to connect and RAID both external enclosures as well as internal drives, the MAXPower RAID mini-SAS 6G-1e1i card features one external mini-SAS port and one internal mini-SAS port