Fun story: thanks to Xsan you can buy Thunderbolt SAN devices from various vendors. Now, the Areca ARC-8050T3 SAN with its 9 Thunderbolt inputs has become insan

Fun story: thanks to Xsan you can buy Thunderbolt SAN devices from various vendors. Now, the Areca ARC-8050T3 SAN with its 9 Thunderbolt inputs has become insanely popular on movie / commercial sets. Drop it into a 4U rolling case and it becomes the motherlode where everyone, no less than nine people at the same time can just plug a Macbook in without any problems, configuration, maintenance or anything. Just works. It pushed Areca to make optical TB3 cables, in fact, now people don't need to stay so close to the motherlode.