i agree!
the only thing that would make it better is if/when intel decides to support booting from a thunderbolt drive. i'm using it for a home theater PC, so i decided not to invest in a SSD, which would be way too small for my media, but did purchase a seagate thunderbolt adapter and a 2TB sata3 drive.
i am currently using a usb stick with clover as the boot drive, and it recognizes the thunderbolt drive as bootable from the clover screen.
ken