Really the only moving part is the quiet fan, which never got too hot for my liking. Once plugged in and turned on it is relatively quiet since there are no spinning drives. It doesn’t feel cheap, yet it looks and feels like it belongs on your desktop. My first impression is that the Thunderbay 4 Mini SSD RAID is extremely light and durable, even when loaded with 4 SSD drives. The drives coming pre-installed worried me a little bit because of what can happen in shipping, but since they are SSDs I guess have nothing to worry about because there aren’t any moving parts, make sense? Inside the box you get a custom-branded OWC 1 meter Thunderbolt 2 cable (which I really like for some reason) keys to lock and unlock the front of the Thunderbay, power cables, drives (if you ordered it preloaded) and manual. If you haven’t upgraded to Yosemite yet, then you are probably in the clear. If using these drives in a Yosemite-based Mac, you may want to do a bit of research on Google and make sure your drives will show up there have been some interesting workarounds to getting non-Apple approved SSD drives to work properly. They have some great videos and tutorials on how to take your old MacBook Pro and bring it back to life by adding one or two SSD drives along with memory upgrades for a decent price. If you haven’t heard of OWC (Other World Computing) before, they are known for their Mac-based solutions. For those interested, when purchasing the Thunderbay 4 Mini SSD you can add SoftRAID to your purchase, but it ranges from an additional $105 to and additional $200 – which to me seems like an odd pricing structure, but you can also purchase it outright from SoftRAID for $179. I’ve read different reports from users on SoftRAID, some saying it adds a tremendous amount of Read/Write speed and usability to their RAID, and some saying they prefer to stick with a hardware RAID solution. OWC often touts the use of SoftRAID, a software-based OSX RAID solution, but because I haven’t seen many Windows-based reviews on the Thunderbay 4 Mini SSD I decided to take it for spin without SoftRAID (an OSX only software). I’ve reviewed and worked with many RAIDs over the past decade, and I’ve always been of the mindset that hardware RAIDs are superior to software RAIDs. This is likely the fastest connection I have ever tested. Footage coming from all sorts of different cameras with varying data rates, frame rates and file sizes put a very heavy strain on our computer systems.įor this review Other World Computing, ( sent me its latest in external RAID solutions, the Thunderbay 4 Mini loaded with 2TB of SSD awesomeness that is connected via a Thunderbolt 2 connection. Since we are all experiencing gigantic increases in our multimedia projects, RAIDs are more important than ever. Blazing fast Thunderbolt 2 connection interface.
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