Other World Computing (OWC) has added Thunderbolt 5 to its flagship ThunderBay 4 RAID solution, giving the four-bay enclosure more connectivity for increasingly demanding creative and business workflows.
With the new update, there are two Thunderbolt 5 ports available that handle a current-generation host connection plus a downstream port for daisy-chaining more Thunderbolt, USB4 and USB-C devices, so users don’t have to give up a port on the computer. Performance reaches up to 1268MB/s with hard drives and up to 1703MB/s with SSDs, which OWC pitches as keeping edits flowing fast. Keeping everything in one place also means fewer loose drives to juggle.
The aluminum four-bay design carries over, and data protection comes from a unit that ships fully configured for RAID 5, tolerating a single drive failure, with OWC SoftRAID 9 handling setup and running continuous drive health monitoring in the background. SoftRAID also supports RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 6+, 10 and JBOD for other setups. For remote teams, OWC and Strada let users browse, preview and edit ThunderBay media without cloud uploads.
Price and Availability
Pre-orders start now, with shipments starting next week. And here’s the price:
- Enclosure only @ US$549.99
- 128TB @ From US$1499.99
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