Blackmagic Design MultiDock With Thunderbolt 2

Blackmagic Design Pty. Ltd. announced a model of the its MultiDock with Thunderbolt 2 technology.

It is a four disk docking solution and disk array featuring a machined metal rack mount design with a ‘cartridge’ style design that enables customers to work more with high capacity SSDs. Each disk dock features an independent SATA interface chip for data transfer speeds. MultiDock is compatible with SSD’s recorded in HyperDeck broadcast recorders, the cinema camera and more.

Compatible with existing Thunderbolt computers, it features Thunderbolt 2 technology for transfer speeds at up to 20Gb/s. This means customers editing and color correction directly from source disks and avoid slow file copying. It also includes a loop thru so users can connect up to six devices with a single Thunderbolt connection. This means customers can build SSD docking stations with up to 24 slots or disk arrays consisting of up to 24 disks all striped together on a single Thunderbolt connection to the computer.

It uses Mac OS X and Windows driver support so SSD’s will mount like regular built in HDDs. That ensures compatibility with software tools including DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, Avid, Smoke and more. Customers can even stripe multiple disks together and build an SSD RAID array.

“The Blackmagic MultiDock is a fantastic solution to managing storage in a busy broadcast or post production environment. Now with Thunderbolt 2 technology you get amazingly fast transfer speeds of up to 20Gb/s, that’s enough bandwidth to easily handle the highest resolution video formats. It’s fantastic when using disks independently or when striping them together as a large disk array ,” said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design. “Blackmagic MultiDock is an incredible solution to the problem of managing disks and the amazingly fast transfer speeds will make editing, design and color correction even faster!“

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