I never really cared much for ASRock as everything they did was based on under cutting their competitors with low cost/overclockable solutions.
But they seemed to make their market share and while still offering low level consumer build they have leaped ahead with this design.
http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-news/ ... ry-leader/
It is perfectly suited for big video work, which tells me that high bandwidth is a concern when builging this.
Custom chipsets and Thunderbolt II @ 1GHps transfers makes this a dream for Virtual Instrument counts mastered in a single take, or for live work.
SATA III while not being a bottleneck for me seems to always crap out with higher RAM and MIDI Triggered VI's, so going to a twice as fast solution is great.
TBolt 2 is hot pluggable and can retreive huge amounts of data like the new Samsung M2 PCI-e SSDs.
There are faster ways, but not so cheap and portable as we are finally seeing with M2 PCI-e SSDs.
Check out this external monster streamer made for these TBolt 2 ports.
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10621
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... bs.1,d.aWc