OWC ThunderBay 4 Enclosure (Thunderbolt 2 Model) with four 3.5" Drive Bays & Dual Thunderbolt 2 Ports
Overview
OWC ThunderBay 4 Enclosure (Thunderbolt 2 Model) with four 3.5" Drive Bays & Dual Thunderbolt 2 Ports
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!
Certified and Tested
Each ThunderBay undergoes OWC's multi-hour drive "burn-in" performance certification procedure prior to shipping. This ensures your ThunderBay arrives operating properly and ready for demanding use.
Time-tested Cooling
Built on OWC's time-tested enclosure cooling technology, ThunderBay 4 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
Daisy-chain up to six ThunderBay 4s for massive storage capabilities and increased performance, or connect multiple ThunderBay 4s to multiple Thunderbolt 3 ports to achieve exponential speed capabilities.
Vibration Dampened
ThunderBay 4's drive isolating design reduces sonic resonance, and is aided by over-sized, rugged, vibration-absorbing, non-skid feet.
DisplayPort 1.2 Support
Dual Thunderbolt 3 ports let you connect the display of your choice that your computer can support, including 4K displays.
- Four hot-swappable universal drive bays: mix or match 2.5-inch (no adapter needed) and 3.5-inch HDDs and SSDs
- Incredible Thunderbolt 2 performance
- Up to 859MB/s read / 838MB/s write
- Plug and play RAID-ready
Compatibility
Compatible with the devices listed below.
MacBook Air
MacBook Pro
Mac Pro
iMac
Mac mini
Specifications
- Mechanisms Supported
- Four (4) 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA drives
- Chipset
- Thunderbolt 2
- Drive Interface
- SATA
- Data Transfer Rate (Maximum)
- Thunderbolt 2 : 20 Gb/s (or 2500 MB/s)
- Reach Certification
- Yes
- RAID Capable
- Yes
- RAID Levels Supported
- JBOD
- RAID Features
- Software RAID
- MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
- Varies depending on drive mechanism installed
- Contact Start Stops
- Varies depending on drive mechanism installed
- Mac OS Compatibility
- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and above
- PC OS Compatibility
- Windows 7 32-bit Edition and above
- Power Supply
- Internal UL-listed universal auto-switching power supply
- External Power Adapter
- No
- Number of Bays
- 4
- Device Ports
- (2) Thunderbolt 2 Ports
- Cooling
- (1) 92mm cooling fan
- Housing Material
- Aluminium
- Dimensions
- H: 17.7 cm x L: 24.5 cm x W: 13.5 cm
- Weight
- 3.9kg
What's in the box?
- 1 x OWC ThunderBay 4 hard drive enclosure
- 1 x Thunderbolt 3 cable
- 1 x UL-certified 3-prong power cable 1 x keys for front panel lock
- 1 x ThunderBay 4 Quick Start Guide
Warranty
- 1 Year Limited Warranty
Part Number
- OWCTB2IVKIT000