Iodyne: Tests of Multiple Pro Data Thunderbolt RAID NVMe SSDs Device and Mac Studio

Earlier this year, iodyne LLC launched Pro Data appliance: a Thunderbolt RAID device that combines 12 NVMe SSDs and 8 Thunderbolt ports in a low-profile form factor.

Pro Data is the fastest Thunderbolt storage for Macs, and is in use by creative professionals. The company has tested the performance of multiple Pro Data devices with Apple’s Mac: the Mac Studio with M1 Ultra. The result is a record performance for Mac storage on Apple Silicon, showing how these 2 devices are becoming fast friends in Pro workflows

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The company conducted performance tests with a setup consisting of an M1 Ultra Mac Studio and 3x24TB Pro Data devices, and achieved 10GB/s reads, and 6GB/s writes for a single Apple Filesystem on Apple Silicon.

It then maxed out the Mac Studio’s M1 Ultra to playback 18 streams of 8K30p Apple ProRes 422 video from Pro Data storage, while simultaneously playing back another nine streams with an M1 Pro MacBook Pro from the same storage. Pro Data allows creative professionals to build new workflows that take dvantage of Apple Silicon.

Customers can see the setup and results in a video and corresponding article. And in real-world application benchmarking using PugetBench, using only a single Pro Data, results show equivalent performance to the Mac Studio’s built-in SSD, while delivering 3x the storage capacity, in both RAID-0 and RAID-6 configurations.

Mac Studio provides performance for Mac users on Apple Silicon. Pro Data is a fast Thunderbolt NVMe storage, and delivers Thunderbolt NVMe Multipathing, daisy-chain capacity expansion up to 432TB, RAID-6 data protection, hardware-accelerated encryption, and the flexibility to connect up to 4 computers at the same time for collaboration using Storage Handoff.

Together Mac Studio and Pro Data provide record performance for APFS on Apple Silicon, and are the building blocks of the ultimate setup for any project or workflow that demands extreme performance and capacity.

Pro Data is available in 12 and 24TB capacities at the company website.

The company has also enabled select partners for weekly rentals of Pro Data storage for DIT use on-set for film, video and commercial shoots. Since its launch in early 2022, it has enabled Pro Data sales for 21 countries, and has devices active across the world – including in the USA, Australia, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Romania, and the UK.