Description

OWC

ThunderBay 4 mini
8.0TB Professional Grade 4-Drive HDD Thunderbolt 3 Solution For Mac and Windows PC

Featuring SoftRAID Lite XT

The Perfect Combination of Speed, Size, and Convenience for Permanent Access to Your Data

Big RAID System Performance in a Compact Design

The ThunderBay 4 mini hard drive equipped solution is big on performance and flexibility yet sized about the length of a pencil. The rugged heat-dissipating aluminum enclosure features two Thunderbolt 3 (Thunderbolt 2/Thunderbolt backward compatible) ports for up to 1556MB/s real-world speeds, so you have more than enough bandwidth to handle personal and business backups — all the way up to today's highest resolution audio, photo, and video formats. If you are seeking big RAID performance that's small enough to fit on a desk, in a rack, or on a DIT cart, your wish is now a reality.

A New World of Drive Flexibility

With four hard drive populated bays, you can use the drives independently or combine drives as a RAID with the included SoftRAID setup and management software. The ThunderBay 4 mini is also perfect for repurposing or maximizing bare 2.5-inch HDDs and SSDs you already own.

Expand production capabilities in industry-leading creative platforms like Final Cut X, Avid Pro Tools, Apple Pro Logic, and Adobe Lightroom, edit large images, manage massive photo and audio libraries, store drone videos, use it as a transport drive…whatever the day or project demands, the ThunderBay 4 mini is the perfect workflow solution.

Install or Swap in Minutes

Want to access another drive or expand your storage capacity? Simply open the front panel security lock to access the four individual bays. Drives mount to a tray that slides back in and automatically plugs into a drive connector so you can get back to work in minutes.

Install or Swap in Minutes

Store More, Go Faster

With the ability to daisy-chain you can add up to five additional ThunderBay 4 mini solutions to create massive storage capacities. Merge them with SoftRAID for even more flexibility, capacity, and capability. Or if speed is what you’re after, connect multiple ThunderBay 4 mini solutions to multiple Thunderbolt 3 ports on your Mac or PC to achieve exponential speed capabilities.

Includes SoftRAID: Easy and Complete Drive Management

Now you can quickly access and robustly protect your data with SoftRAID XT. SoftRAID easy setup makes it a breeze to create RAID volumes by helping you through the entire process. With multiple RAID options, you 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 for your data volume.

SoftRAID Highlights

Up to 86% faster versus AppleRAID
Create advanced RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, 1+0 (10) volumes for higher performance and/or redundancy.
Enterprise-class monitoring for drive and RAID volume health with email notifications
Volume validation to ensure sectors can be read, parity is correct, and minimization of volume failure
Drive certification checks that your drives are safe to store data before use
Drive failure prediction with early warning helps protect you from sudden drive failure

Professional Grade = Ready to Work

We understand having confidence in gear reliability is paramount to creative professionals. That’s why every ThunderBay 4 mini hard drive solution undergoes OWC's multi-hour "burn-in" performance certification prior to shipping. This ensures your ThunderBay 4 mini arrives operating properly and immediately ready for demanding use.

Specifications

Product Specifications:

OWC Part Number

TB3QMLR08T5

Mac OS Compatibility

Mac OS X 10.13 and later

PC OS Compatibility

Windows 10 and later

Other Requirements

Thunderbolt 3 Port

Driver Required

SoftRAID Only

Ports

(2) Thunderbolt 3 Ports

Number of Bays

(4) 2.5" SATA

Housing Color

Black

Housing Material

Aluminum

Security Slot

Cooling Fan

(1) 60mm cooling fan

Chipset

Thunderbolt 3: Intel JHL6540
SATA Controller: ASMedia ASM-1062

Standard Mechanism

4 x 2.0TB* Seagate Hard Disk Drives**
*1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.

**OWC reserves the right to replace or upgrade to equivalent or better components.

RAID Capable

Yes via SoftRAID

RAID Levels Supported

RAID 0
RAID 1
Raid 0+1
Raid 4
Raid 5

Data Transfer Rate (Max)

Thunderbolt 3 : 40 Gb/s (or 5000 MB/s)

Bootable

Independent volumes bootable in macOS

Power Supply

External UL-listed universal auto-switching power supply

AC Input

100-240V, 50-60Hz, 2.0A

DC Output

+12V, 6A

Wattage

Certifications

CE
FCC
VCCI
RCM
BSMI

Environment

Environmental (Operating)
- Temperature 41°F to 95°F (5°C to 35°C)
- Altitude -304.8 m to 3,048.0 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000 ft)
Environmental (Non-Operating)
- Temperature -4°F to 140°F (-20°C to 60°C)
- Altitude -304.8 m to 12,192.0 m (-1,000 ft to 40,000 ft)

Dimensions

Height: 11.7 cm (4.6 in)
Width: 9.6 cm (3.8 in)
Length: 19.1 cm (7.5 in)

Weight

1.1 kg (2.51 lbs)

Manufacturer provided specifications for Other World Computing p/n TB3QMLR8.0T5 UPC#: 810586032315

Compatibility

This product is compatible with...

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Mac Pro Rack (Early 2020)

(January 2020)

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