OWC Thunderbay Flex 8 Thunderbolt 3 Storage Docking Station w/PCIe Capabilities

Description: OWC Thunderbay Flex 8 Thunderbolt 3 Storage Docking Station w/PCIe Capabilities Eight universal 3.5/2.5-inch Drive Bays use SATA/SAS and U.2/M.2 NVMe drives for up to 144TB of capacity and real-world speeds up to 2750MB/s. The top four bays can utilize U.2 SSDs Convenient front mounted USB-C and (2) USB-A 10Gb/s ports for peripherals and mobile devices. Frontside SD 4.0 and CFexpress card readers with up to 985MB/s speed Future ready: top four bays can use U.2 SSDs, the emerging M&E industry storage standard PCIe x16 connector/x4 lane slot for audio/video capture, networking, SSD storage, hardware RAID card, or I/O card Create, manage, and monitor advanced RAID sets with SoftRAID, the worlds most advanced RAID management solution with easy setup, e-notifications, and drive integrity monitoring. (RAID 4/5/1+0 (10) is available for Mac only at this time.) FLEXible Storage Eight drive bays: use a mix of U.2/M.21 NVMe and SATA/SAS2 drives for up to 128TB of capacity and real world speeds up to 2,750MB/sFuture ready: top four bays can use U.2 SSDs…the emerging M&E industry storage standardPowerfully easy RAID: create, manage, and monitor advanced RAID sets with SoftRAID Docking FLEXibility Power your notebook with up to 85W power delivery while capturing multi-stream hi-res footage at full frame rate. Connect audio and video mixers, digital camera, keyboards, and charge mobile devices via one USB-C and two USB-A 10Gb/s ports. Ingest and work with 4/8K RAW video and RAW photo files immediately at speeds up to 985MB/s with frontside SD 4.0 and CFexpress card readers. And if all that’s not enough you can, daisy-chain up to five additional Thunderbolt 3 devices! Do more: second Thunderbolt 3 port3 for daisy chaining devices or additional display(s)Connect more: (1) USB-C and (2) USB-A 10Gb/s ports for peripherals and mobile devicesFast media ingest: front-side SD 4.0 and CFexpress card readers with up to 985MB/s speedPlay your card: (1) PCIe slot for audio/video capture, networking, SSD storage, hardware RAID card, or I/O card Ingest hi-res images and video via front-side SD 4.0 and CFexpress card readers. And when you want to expand your desktop capabilities, there’s a PCIe slot waiting for your specific project needs. ThunderBay Flex 8 is the one Thunderbolt 3 desktop device that rules them all. With an irresistible economy of scale, this consolidated solution is ideal for anyone waiting for the right moment to invest in Thunderbolt technology. At the heart of the ThunderBay Flex 8 capabilities are two cutting-edge technology standards: NVMe and PCIe. Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) optimizes the performance of modern flash technology over the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) standard. It enables significantly faster SSD performance with a more direct and optimized path to a computer’s processor. Tying both of these technologies together is the Thunderbolt 3 interface which uses the PCIe bus. This interface offers the fastest data transfers possible on a single cable between computers and peripherals like storage solutions, docks, and expansion devices while also supplying charging power. Right out of the packaging, all eight bays can utilize SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-inch SSDs or 3.5-inch HDDs. To take advantage of 40Gb/s PCIe technology, the top four bays are NVMe U.2 SSD ready. These emerging super-fast SSDs enable ThunderBay Flex 8 to meet the future storage needs of content creators and video production pros. MUSCLE-FLEXING DATA PERFORMANCE Are you a video pro working with 4K/8K and even Phantom high-speed files? The ThunderBay Flex 8 offers a variety of drive configurations that deliver real-world read/write speeds of 2,750MB/s that saturate the Thunderbolt 3 speed threshold. Try any of these options: Eight FLEXible drive bays with up to 2,750MB/s real world speedFour top bays: install your choice of U.2 NVMe SSDs (one bay PCIe 3.0 x4, three bays PCIe 3.0 x1), 2.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s SSDs, or 3.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s HDDs.Four bottom bays: install your choice of 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s drives. Removing the SATA drive controller and replacing with a SAS controller card enables use of faster SAS HDDs.Swap out the built-in SATA drive controller card with a SATA/SAS hardware RAID card and configure 8 x SATA/SAS drives in hardware RAID 0 FLEXPANDABLE FOR UNIQUE NEEDS By removing the enclosure’s side panel, you can expand your capabilities by installing a half-length, full-height, single-width expansion card in the PCIe x16 connector/x4 lanes slot. Add a 4K video capture card for direct ingest of multi-stream high-res footage. Record high-quality tracks with an audio card and then edit and archive tracks. Create a powerful file server with a high-speed networking card. By replacing the built-in SATA drive controller with a SATA or SAS RAID card, you can even turn ThunderBay Flex 8 into a hardware RAID storage solution while keeping a PCIe slot open for other cards. INCLUDES SOFTRAID: EASY AND COMPLETE DRIVE MANAGEMENT Now you can quickly access and robustly protect your data with SoftRAID. SoftRAID 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. Its that simple to create your preference of speed and/or redundancy for your data volume. SoftRAID highlights: Advanced: create RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, 1+0 (10) volumes (RAID 6, 6+ coming soon) and get email notifications for drive and RAID volume health with SoftRAID Pro (Mac only)Verify: volume validation ensures sectors can be read, parity is correct, and any potential volume failure is minimizedCertified: drives are validated before use to ensure they are safe for data storageVigilant: predictive warnings help protect against unexpected drive failureOutperforms: up to 86% faster than AppleRAIDThorough: full TRIM support improves internal and external SSD performance in all RAID levels

Price: 1299.99 USD

Location: Woodstock, IL

End Time: 2025-01-14T18:41:52.000Z

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