OWC ThunderBay 4 Edition With RAID-5 Capabilities

Other World Computing, Inc. is releasing the ThunderBay 4 RAID-5 Edition.

It gives users the freedom to use this technology as storage, backup, or with various RAID configurations for data-redundancy and performance.

Thinking Outside the Enclosure
Over a year ago, OWC and SoftRAID, Inc. created a collaborative partnership to harness the power and flexibility of ThunderBay 4 and software RAID-5 to bring enhanced performance, storage, and data-redundancy capabilities to the Mac.

“Going this route offers an extremely competitive price point with exceptional flexibility, advanced RAID / Drive health monitoring features, and up to 35% higher performance compared to other RAID-5 hardware solutions that typically cost twice as much,” said Larry O’Connor, founder and CEO, OWC.

Greater Speed + Capacity
The performance and capacity of ThunderBay 4, combined with a software RAID engine, provides better performance capabilities that are up to 35% faster than many competing drives. With capacities ranging from 4TB to 20TB, and sustained data rates up to 675MB/s for RAID-5 performance, users can optimize their workflow and experience oftware RAID-5 technology developed for the Mac with the ThunderBay 4 RAID-5 Edition.

“OWC’s ThunderBay 4 brings to the market capacities that have yet to be seen in such a compact medium, as well as the performance and data security that only RAID-5 can provide,” said Les Tokar, The SSD Review.

Personalized Performance + Redundancy – BYOD
Get the BYOD solution with OWC’s ThunderBay 4 RAID-5 Edition Enclosure Kit to add up to four drives, SSDs, or a mixture of both HDDs and SSDs for customizable performance to meet specific storage and backup needs. In addition, users can also set up RAID-0, 1, 4, or 5 arrays using SoftRAID that also includes drive monitoring, e-mail notification, and rebuild capabilities.

Configure and Go Bigger
Use dual Thunderbolt 2 ports and daisy-chain up to five additional devices, plus one high-resolution display. Or take full advantage of the flexibility offered by the ThunderBay 4 and daisy-chain multiple ThunderBays together to form even larger RAID arrays with up to 8, 12, and 16 drives for optimal performance and redundancy. Users can get better than enterprise storage and performance on their desktop for a fraction of the cost.

“I remember when I spent $20,000 to buy 20GB of storage. Now, we can get far more storage, with far better performance, for about $100 per terabyte. The ThunderBay 4. I like what I see. Congratulations, OWC,” said Larry Jordan & Associates, Inc.

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