Description

OWC ThunderBay 4

4-bay Professional-Grade Enclosure

Dual Thunderbolt 2 | RAID Ready | 4 Drive Bays | Mac

The Speed You Need

Fits both 2.5" and 3.5" drives
Incredible Thunderbolt 2 throughput
Plug and play RAID-ready
Up to 859MB/s read / 838MB/s write RAID 0 performance 1

Empower your creative production workflow with this super-fast, 4-Bay, RAID-ready drive with dual Thunderbolt ports. Add vast amounts of high-performance storage with ThunderBay 4. Utilize each of the four internal drives independently, or use the software RAID of your choice to setup a multi-drive array for high-performance or data-redundancy.

Edit, Experiment, Create, Design

With ThunderBay's performance capabilities you can complete projects faster, have more time to experiment, and push your creations to the next level.

Enhance editing capabilities in video apps like Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, and Avid Media Composer. Empower greater audio production capabilities in audio apps like Avid Pro Tools and Logic Pro X. Edit large photos in apps like Adobe Photoshop, and browse large photo libraries in apps like Apple Aperture and Adobe Lightroom. Simply put, you can do more with a ThunderBay 4 enhanced workflow, and with a RAID 5 array you get data redundancy on top of great performance!

Mix & Match Drives & RAID

With four drive bays you can choose to install all hard drives, all SSDs, or a mixture of both hard drives and SSDs. You can setup two or three drives as a software RAID and leave any remaining drives in independent mode, or setup two software RAIDs.

4 drive bays plus so much more.

Time-Tested Cooling
Built on OWC's time-tested enclosure cooling technology, ThunderBay utilizes an open "flow-thru" vented design with an oversized 92 mm, low-turbulence, noise-quieting fan to keep the drives running cool and reliably. Multi-Drive

Multi-Drive
Daisy-chain up to six ThunderBays for massive storage capabilities and increased performance, or connect multiple ThunderBays to multiple Thunderbolt 2 ports to achieve exponential speed capabilities. Vibration Dampened

Vibration Dampened
ThunderBay's drive isolating design reduces sonic resonance, and is aided by over-sized, rugged, vibration-absorbing, non-skid feet. DisplayPort 1.2

DisplayPort 1.2 Support
Dual Thunderbolt ports let you connect the display of your choice that your computer can support, including 4K displays. Thunderbolt Cable

OWC Thunderbolt Cable
ThunderBay comes with an OWC one-meter certified Thunderbolt cable, with other lengths from 0.5 meter to 30 meters available separately.

1. Read and write speeds of sequential, incompressible data. Speed dependent on mechanism installed.

Specifications

Product Specifications

Mechanisms Supported

Four 3.5" SATA hard drives up to 6.0TB
Four 2.5" SATA hard drives or SSDs

Chipset

Thunderbolt

Interfaces Supported

Thunderbolt 2

JBOD / RAID Support

JBOD: Utilize each of the four drives independently
RAID: Use any Software RAID of your choice to setup the ThunderBay 4 for multi-drive performance or data redundancy.

Port Configuration

Thunderbolt – (2) Thunderbolt 2 ports

Max Data Transfer Rate

Thunderbolt 2 – 20Gb/sec

Port/Interface Bootability

It can be used as an external startup drive using Thunderbolt port.

System Requirements

Any Mac with a Thunderbolt port running OS X 10.6 or later.
Any PC running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or later with a Thunderbolt port. Driver required for proper installation. (3.3 MB ZIP)
Boot Camp is not supported. The Thunderbolt certification process does not include Macs running Windows through Boot Camp.