Fastest external softraid1/26/2024 OWC sent me a 4TB unit and its transatlantic voyage instantly showed the convenience of the ballistic case the shipping box was small and flimsy, but that doesn’t matter as the unit sits in its own foam insert with the cables in a separate slot. They sure don’t if you consider that, if you set up two ThunderBlades in a RAID configuration with the included SoftRAID software, they can reach a transfer speed of up to 3800MB/sec. Such an assumption could be wrong, though, because the throughput figures - as impressive as they are - don’t tell the whole story. With a price of $1379 for my test unit, I don’t need to be clairvoyant to assume you’ll be one of the not so many who processes large files on a high-end workstation. And yet, the 2350MB/sec on the low-end iMac is high enough to work with 6K or 8K video - or HDR images shot with a Hasselblad. Only in the latter two cases will you enjoy the full 40Gbps bandwidth per port and the maximum transfer speed the ThunderBlade is capable of because you can dedicate one bus to it. Buy a Mac Pro and you’ll have four of them. Buy an iMac Pro and you’ll get two buses. For example, the low-end iMac has two Thunderbolt 3 ports but only one bus. In both cases, you’ll see that the bottleneck isn’t the device or Thunderbolt 3 port but the computer. The question, though, is whether you really need 2800MB/sec throughput or if something like 1200MB/sec will suffice. It has a data transfer speed of up to 2800MB/sec, you can have it in capacities of up to 8TB that you can expand further by daisy chaining up to six devices. The ThunderBlade has a sleek design with a nice, industrial look and comes in a custom-fit ballistic hardshell case.Īs with most fast storage, the ThunderBlade is marketed as ideal for videographers and photographers. The OWC ThunderBlade external Thunderbolt 3 SSD drive belongs to the last category. Find out just how fast it is in the real world in our review. Review: The OWC Thunderblade has some bold speed claims attached to it.
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