With Thunderbe 8, OW extends a wide range of Thunderbolt accessories in its professional-grade, providing a high-capable storage solution with a high-capacity universal base for 3.5-or 2.5-inch hard drives or SSDs.
Thunderbabe can serve as a high-performer personal data center with multiple configuration options for 8 growing storage requirements. It can adjust the needs of individuals, including data-intensive video editing, high-resolution images and VR workflow, whose large format files require a lot of drive space, as well as to ensure that fast data transfer speeds are effective.
Thunder 8 offers storage up to 160TB depending on your preferred configuration, with additional options for standard and enterprise drives, exceeding the limit of more common four-bang of storage solutions.
Eight Drive Bay Having Allows Greater flexibility and customization in case of drive configuration and RAID options. Users can choose to sort the drives in different RAID modes to adapt the performance, data redundancy or the balance of both. For example, users can choose RAID 10 for the maximum performance, RAID 5 or both for the data redendency for the Raid 5 or the balance of both.
An enclosure with the bay of eight drives cuts unnecessary cables and power waste compared to single or dual drive solutions, and users provide huge, extremely flexible storage potential that can be scale over time.
Thunderbabe arrived very well for 8 transit, with generosity, with high density foam buffer, air bag and dense cardboard-a key consideration for transporting fairly fragile drives. The enclosure itself came to a blue knit nylon bag to help it take it out of the box, it was a welcome help considering weighing about 20 pounds. This is relatively heavier than some other external storage solutions, which means that it is not ideal for users who need good transportation, even for the array of this size drive. In the future, the bag should be kept around the bag to help the Thunder.
Design
Thunderbe 8 enclosure is made of dense aluminum with matte black anodized finish. The device is very well built and apparently designed to reduce durability and heat waste, there are plenty of opportunities through your setup and multiple drive changes.
The thunderbore brings the two keys to unlock the frontal panel in front of the thunder. Once unlocked, you simply pull the cover up and off to enter.
Each drive is stored in a tray, from A labeled, which can be easily released with thumb screw. Removing the drives is a bit difficult to remove, quite some energy loose. Since OWBLUSI provides extra drive tray, it is possible to keep some extra drives nearby so that they are ready to change if needed. It may be especially effective in repairing an RAID-5 array with the minimum inconvenience.
A Kensington lock in the rear of the enclosure, two Thunderbolt 3 ports and a displayport 1.2 port featured a display to a display with the resolution of up to 4K. Each drive has an index light, as the rear ports are, when a drive or wire connection is used clearly. A single large fan on the back is pulling in the cool air.
At the bottom of Thunderbee it has four rubber feet to protect it on a surface, but if you need, you also have the opportunity to stack the Enclosure on several thunders on each other. Power supply has been integrated and no external transformer is needed in the power cable, which simply cut the mess compared to some other devices in this category.
Word
Although the OWWLUSE Thunderbe is designed to be relatively quiet 8, some users can see that the sound level is noticeable, especially if they work in a quiet environment. It basically comes from the fan that helps to cool the drives inside the enclosure.
The fan spins large and low speed, which helps to reduce the sound of high-frequency, but it can still produce a short frequency ham that can be noticeable in a quiet environment. It seems that the fan has taken a while to close the fan while Thunderbe is lazy, which some users may feel a bit annoying.
It is said that it is inevitable that the eight high-power drives and their required cooling will produce a certain amount of words. Dependent on the type of drive that is installed on the sound level, fast and high-capable drives usually produce noise than slow and low-capacity drives.
Although the OWWLUSE Thunderbab did a relatively good job to reduce 8 words, I still thought that Thunder was quite loud than other similar devices. It is easily loud to fill a house and even in adjoining rooms – it may be a problem if you work with audio or sleep near your workstation. For this reason, some users may consider it inappropriate as desktop storage solution, especially if you think the constant click of drives can disturb you or prevent your work. A 0.5 meter Thunderbolt 3 cable with OWBLUSE Thunderbe 8 cable, for which the unit needs to be placed very close to the computer. It may be better to use a 2m Thunderbolt Cable and get out the enclosure more, if possible.
Set up
Thunderbe 8 is not a hardware raid system, so it depends on the softered to create, monitor and manage the raid sets. The software allows users to easily configure and manage the ride arrays, providing advanced features and performance enhancement in Apple’s disc utilities.
If you do not want to use the drives individually, the theoretically softered is not a requirement for Thunderba, you need to use it if you want to use the expedition.
One of the main benefits of Softered is the performance. According to OWWLUSI, it uses advanced algorithms to optimize the effects of the disc and provide faster data transfer rates than the traditional hardware raid solutions. This is especially important for users who work with large files and high-resolution media content, as it can significantly reduce the time needed to transfer and process data.
Another advantage is its ease of use. The software provides a relatively simple interface to configure and manage the RAID arrays, allowing users to create, delete, delete and modify the array with a minimum level of experience. Softide also includes features such as disk health observation, email notification and smart data analysis to detect the failure of possible drives.
There is a printed license number for the surrounding SoftDed XT and it was fairly easy to install and running, but to enable the entire disk access you need to restart and enter in restart mode. My experience with Softered was fairly strong, but I thought the printed instructions could be a bit more detail and I think that a new arrival process could fight a bit.
Thunderbie 8K after attaching to a mac via Thunderbolt and installing Softered XTT, appears on a RAID 5 array desktop formatted at HFS+ and ready to use it. Then you can split the disks into new RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, and 10 arrays but you can see the appropriate and re -format you as you wish.
It is noteworthy that the drives are clearly not clearly labeled, which means the only way to identify a particular drive through the LED index. The design of the softerade also seems a bit old, but it can definitely be developed through future software updates. The most important thing is that it works very reliably.
Performance
According to the OWBLUSE, the Thunder can reach 8 2,586 MB/second with eight bays. In my exam series, Thunderbe 8 performed very well – SSD speed through USB. Only with HDD, I have earned about 1,460 MB/S Right and 1,900 MB/S Ride 0, which should be enough for even the most demanding professional work flow.
At RAID 5, it has just slow to read and write about 1,200 MB/S and 1,150 MB/S respectively, which is still impressive considering the data provided by this configuration. Its rapid transfer speed and high-capacity completion make it as an ideal machine for time machine backups, although Softered does not support the encryption of APFS format arches at this time.
Overall, this level performance allows for users who work with high-resolution media content such as 4K and 8K videos for those who are ideal, smooth playback and editing of large files. The results of Thunder 8’s performance are equal with other high-performer storage solutions in the market in Blackmagic Speed Tests, it makes it a reliable choice for professional content creators and power users who claim top-level performance from their storage devices.
Since Thunderbe 8 has two Thunderbolt ports, it is possible to have other USB and Thunderbolt devices to be daisted. I tried it with a Thunderbolt 3 SSD as well as Standard USB hard drives and it worked very well, though I had to remember to remove these drives before the Thunderboy closed.
Bottom line
Overall, OWC Thunderbe 8 is a great professional-grade storage solution that works very well with Mac, provides high-volume, high-performed storage to meet the wide range of intense demand. Throughout multiple RAID array, the device operates large libraries of video and audio manufacturing files, as well as simultaneous backups, very well after a few months of constant use.
Thunderbe 8 is a premium storage solution that comes at a premium price, but its features and effectiveness make it equitable, especially for professionals who need reliable storage for their work flow. Furthermore, its modular design is easily upgraded and maintained, it makes a long -term investment that can scale with your storage needs.
Thunder comes with a five -year limited warranty and customer assistance of 8 OWC. Thunderbe 8 is not required to supply 8, but also provides a four-ba version of OWWLUSE Thunderbe 4.
How to buy
Available at the initial price of $ 779.00 from the 8 OWC website of Thunderbe. 16 TB Thunderbee 8, which has Softded XT, starts at $ 1,479.00.
- OWC Thunderbe 8
Note: OWBLUSI provided macrumors for this review with a 64TB Thunderbe with 8 with Softered XT. No other compensation was found.
