OWC sells extra drive carries, and the unit can be used to swap drives out, e.g., for backup purposes. Visible through the front grill are the four bays. Status lights on the front indicate the status of each drive, labeled A/B/C/D. The front grill can be locked if desired using the supplied keys. The power supply is external with a power brick (unlike its larger Thunderbay 4 sibling, which uses an internal power supply). Visualsįinished in a black semi-smooth finish which should hold up well to wear. There's an activation code on the bottom of the Thunderbay for SoftRaid XT. USE SOFTRAID XT AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY A LICENSE. From what I gather there is SoftRaid Lite (49, no RAID 5), SoftRaid (179, full features) and SoftRAID XT (included with Thunderbay purchase, seems like all features). Built with MacDrive (another OWC brand), SoftRAID allows you to create, read, and write HFS+ RAID 0/1/5 sets on both macOS and Windows computers. It wasn't clear which SoftRaid product to use. SoftRAID comes to Windows enabling you to share RAID volumes seamlessly between a Mac and a PC. Update December 2015: WOW-the Thunderbay 4 mini is so quiet that when MPG first turned it on, it seemed defective-no noise! To hear the fan, an ear must be placed next to the unit, or the room must be dead quiet. Overview Performance Plus RedundancyExperience the first and only software RAID 5 technology developed for the Mac with the ThunderBay 4 RAID 5 Edition. Share RAID 0/1/5 volumes between Mac and Windows. The fan is quiet but can be heard if the unit is placed on the desktop. * JBOD = Just a Bunch Of Disks, meaning each drive is seen independently. And of course, partitioning can be done whether RAID is used or not. JBOD is flexible in that it allows RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID 1+0 and RAID-5 via software, but also supports single drives/volumes. The Thunderbay Mini is a JBOD* solution: the system sees all four drives as separate drives. Otherwise, software RAID is achieved via Apple’s Disk Utility or via Soft RAID, including RAID-5 (SoftRAID 5 only). I just received my OWCTB3SRT16.0S OWC ThunderBay 4 TB3 16TB w/SoftRAID XT 1 1 959.00 EA 0.00 959.00 S/N: 29914612 MFG: 44LMJ-C5LPN-3A7Z7-SEWAC-9W3TB 16TB OWC ThunderBay 4 RAID 5 Four-Drive HDD External Storage Solution with Dual Thunderbolt 3 Ports. OWC sells and supports a RAID-5 edition of the Thunderbay Mini as a complete software/hardware solution. OWC supplies a one-meter Thunderbolt cable with the Thunderbay. The OWC Thunderbay 4 Mini houses four 2.5-inch hard drives or SSDs in an aluminum case via Thunderbolt 2. Thunderbay Mini RAID-5 edition also available. RESET OWC ThunderBay 8 RAID 5 Edition 8-Bay External Drive w/Dual Thunderbolt 3 Ports (TB38SRKIT0) OWC ThunderBay 4 RAID 4-Bay External Drive w/Dual. Thunderbay Mini configurations start at about $379 without drives.
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