OWC ThunderBay 4 – RAID Enclosure

Description

The OWC Thunderbay 4 with Thunderbolt 3 is a 4 BAY RAID enclosure that can be populated with up to four 3.5″ SATA HDD’s or 2.5″ SSD’s of your choosing.

OWC Thunderbay 4 can be purchased un-populated (without disks) or choose from a selection of Enterprise Class hard drives or SSD’s.

Video Editing

Edit, view, stream, and produce more with ThunderBay in your 2K, 4K, and audio production workflow. 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.

Audio and Photography

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!

SoftRAID Management

Now you can maximize disk space, get the fastest access speeds, and protect against disk failure with Plug and Play simplicity.

SoftRAID’s easy setup makes it a breeze to create RAID volumes by helping you through the entire process. Just decide what you’re using your RAID volume for and how much space to allocate to it. It’s that simple to create your preference of speed and/or redundancy attributes of your data volume.

SoftRAID is available to purchase direct from the developer – https://softraid.com/

Backwards Compatible

The OWC ThunderBay 4 harnesses the power of Thunderbolt 3 to provide backwards compatibility with Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt 2. Whichever interface/speed your workflow demands, it’s easy to integrate OWC ThunderBay 4’s massive capacity and performance capabilities. Add a Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter and you’re all set.

Daisy Chain

With the OWC Thunderbay 4 you can daisy chain up to six Thunderbolt devices. Click here for a useful daisy chain workflow.

Warranty

The ThunderBay 4 is built to the highest ‭standards of reliability and performance and Thunderbolt Certified for Mac and Windows. Because 100% reliability is always the goal, the ThunderBay 4 is rigorously quality tested and ‭backed by our 3 Year OWC Limited Warranty plus award-winning, 24/7 customer ‭support.

Please see recommended internal drives below.