When it rains it pours and sometimes it just drips a little. The promise of high function, super fast Thunderbolt peripherals is starting to come true, but it’s not the deluge we’ve all been hoping for.

Well to make those devices, both of them, work properly you will need updated software from the mothership:

Thunderbolt Display Firmware Update (Download)
— This update improves the stability of the Apple Thunderbolt Display.

Thunderbolt Software Update (Snow Leopard) (Download)
— This update provides support for the Apple Thunderbolt Display and bug fixes for Thunderbolt device compatibility.

Yes, Apple has begun shipping their new Thunderbolt Display (Apple Store) and LaCie has finally delivered the long-promised Little Big Disk, which is now on sale at brick n’ mortar Apple Stores.