NOTE: Adding your own drives (provided they are either SSD or 2.5″ HDDs) is reasonably easy.
If you order from OWC, the drives come pre-installed and formatted as a RAID 5. Price as tested: $1,297.99 US (2 TB SSD version) Website: Storage capacity: 500 GB to 4 TB (SSD) 2 TB – 8 TB (HDD) (Both of these issued are discussed later in this review.) Second, older computers with Thunderbolt 1 ports will not be able to take full advantage of the speed of this system. The RAID 5 configuration slows read performance about 25%. Two concerns to be aware of: when you buy it with SSD drives, it ships formatted as a RAID 5 rather than RAID 4. Designed for workflows in content creation, the ThunderBay 4 mini contains two Thunderbolt 2 ports and supports daisy chains of up to five additional Thunderbolt devices and/or displays.Įxtremely quiet, very fast, smaller than almost any other 4-bay RAID I’ve seen and weighing next to nothing, the ThunderBay 4 mini is a solid system for media creators who need serious speed at a reasonable price in a rugged container. ThunderBay 4 mini, from OWC, offers four 2.5″ drive bays, ideal for harnessing the performance of solid state drives (SSDs). SSDs are more than faster versions of a standard hard disk, as you’ll discover in this article. So much so that I collected it all into a separate article, which you can read here. One other note, I learned a lot about SSD drives during the course of these tests.
All the drives tested in this review have since been returned to OWC.ĭISCLAIMER: OWC has been a past sponsor of my podcast: Digital Production Buzz. They graciously loaned me two units for a couple of weeks so that I could write this. NOTE: Here’s my review of the OWC Drive Dock. So, for this review, I asked the folks at OWC to loan me a ThunderBay 4 mini, containing 4 SSD drives, along with an OWC Drive Dock so that I could compare the speed of a 4-drive RAID with a single SSD drive. ( Click here to read my product disclosure statement.)įor sheer speed, nothing beats an SSD system.
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