Performance + Redundancy
Experience the first and only software RAID 5 technology developed for the Mac with the ThunderBay 4 RAID 5 Edition. Empower your workflow with up to 35% faster RAID 5 performance and exponentially faster rebuild times than comparable hardware based RAID arrays.
- Up to 675MB/s read / write RAID 5 performance.
- Up to 1,342MB/s read / write RAID 0 performance.
- Exponentially faster rebuild times than hardware RAID.
Activate advanced features, such as drive monitoring, e-mail notifications, and more when you install the included SoftRAID for OS X.
Conventional wisdom turned on its head.
Hardware RAID has long been thought to be superior to software RAID, but we've now combined the massive performance and capacity of ThunderBay 4 with a robust, proven software RAID engine to provide breathtaking performance, flexibility, and reliability.
Software RAID + ThunderBay = WHOA!
Over a year ago, OWC partnered with SoftRAID to bring enhanced storage capabilities to the Mac, and we're now seeing that dream become a reality. SoftRAID combines advanced RAID modes, fast performance, monitoring, e-mail notification, and fast rebuild capabilities that only software RAID can deliver.
Monitoring + Notifications
Software RAID easily lets you setup drive monitoring and e-mail notifications to keep you informed about your ThunderBay's performance and drive health. Helping you to maintain mission critical workflows.
Better than Hardware RAID Performance
ThunderBay 4 with SoftRAID offers faster performance than many competing 4 or even 5-bay hardware RAID external drives – benefiting from modern processors that are both fast and designed for exceptionally high-performance RAID management with no real-world impact on apps or tasks.
Flexible + Robust
SoftRAID is extremely flexible and can easily be updated, reconfigured and used across multiple enclosures to provide an amazing amount of robust options to empower you to make the most of your ThunderBay workflow.
Empower your workflow with RAID 5 performance and up to 24TB capacity.
Edit, view, stream, and produce more with ThunderBay in your 2K, 4K, and audio production workflow.
The RAID 5 Advantage
RAID 5 merges the four drives inside ThunderBay together for exponential performance gains over a single drive, the combined capacity of three of the drives, and data redundancy that allows the array to still work even if one drive were to fail!
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!
Note:
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Product Specifications
Mechanisms Supported
- Four 3.5" SATA hard drives up to 6.0TB
- Four 2.5" SATA hard drives or SSDs (NewerTech AdaptaDrive required for install, sold separately)
Chipset
- Thunderbolt 2
Interfaces Supported
- Thunderbolt 2
JBOD / RAID Support
- JBOD: Utilize each of the four drives independently
- RAID: Use the included software RAID or one of your choice to setup the ThunderBay 4 for multi-drive performance or data redundancy.
- SoftRAID 5 Support Page
Port Configuration
- Thunderbolt – (2) Thunderbolt 2 ports
Max Data Transfer Rate
- Thunderbolt 2 – 20Gb/sec
Port/Interface Bootability
- It can be used as a Thunderbolt startup drive on Macs running Mac OS X.
System Requirements
- Any Mac with a Thunderbolt port running OS X 10.6 or later.
- Boot Camp is not supported. The Thunderbolt certification process does not include Macs running Windows through Boot Camp.
Power Supply
- Internal UL Listed U.S./International Auto Switching 100 ~ 240v, 50/60Hz input, 12 Volt 16.66 Amp output Power Supply (power cords for International use sold separately).
Software Included
- SoftRAID 5
- Intech® Hard Disk SpeedTools Utilities™ OEM (For Mac OS 8.6 – X only)
- ProSoft Engineering® Data Backup for Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later
- Over 1.5GB of Freeware, Shareware, Public domain software installed
External Case Dimensions
- 9.65″(D) x 5.31″(W) x 6.96″(H)
- 245.11mm x 134.87mm x 176.78mm
Enclosure Weight (no accessories)
- Approximately 8.6 pounds (3.9kg)
Product Manual
- OWC ThunderBay 4 Manual (3.3 MB PDF)
Operating Environment:
Temperature
- (operating) 5°C – 42°C (41°F – 107°F)
- (non-operating) -40°C – 65°C (-40°F – 149°F)
Relative Humidity
- (operating) 8% – 90% RH (Non-condensing)
- (non-operating) 5% – 95% RH (Non-condensing)
Shock
- 65G 2mS; (non-operating) 175G 2mS
Vibration
- (operating) 1.0G (5 – 300Hz)
- (non-operating) 5.0G (5 – 500Hz)
Warranty
1 Year OWC Enclosure Limited Warranty
The best warranty is one you never have to use, but should the need occur - OWC is proud to provide a superior level of support and warranty coverage to our customers. Even when not used, we understand the peace of mind afforded by a longer warranty period. OWC's industry leading coverage is a testament to our confidence in the reliability of the solutions that we offer. OWC solutions are engineered to demanding quality standards in order to deliver the most reliable, highest performance available on the market in each storage category.
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Note: Do not disassemble or otherwise open your OWC solution prior to the conclusion of the 1 Year OWC Enclosure Limited Warranty period. Doing so will void the remainder of the OWC warranty.
Manufacturer provided specifications for Other World Computing p/n TB2SRKIT0GB UPC#: 812437020533