OWC’s new award-winning Thunderbay FLEX 8 powerhouse solution now shipping

OWC today announced that its new ThunderBay Flex 8media workflow solution, revealed at CES 2020, is now shipping. A cutting-edge approach for world-class Thunderbolt™ 3 storage, dollar for dollar, there is no better way for serious media professionals to handle their storage, connectivity, and PCIe expansion needs.

The exciting new ThunderBay Flex 8 is a recipient of the 2020 Future Best of Show Award, presented by Video Edge. Video Edge awarded the ThunderBay Flex 8 their Special Edition Best of Show Award in the store, charge, and connect category. The awards are evaluated by a panel of engineers and industry experts and are selected based on innovation, feature set, cost efficiency, and performance in serving the industry. A Special Edition of the award program was held this year in the absence of a physical NAB Show. 

Get it done Faster, Better and Cheaper

Fix three bugs with one line of code and turn your Mac into a supercomputer with this highly configurable workhorse for high-end video, VFX, on-set DIT, and finishing work. It’s blazing-fast storage, a dock, and PCI expansion combined into a next-gen form factor.  

The OWC ThunderBay Flex 8 simplifies complex storage and expansion needs for serious professionals into a single easy to configure, adaptable solution. Your Mac will never be unprepared for a client job again.

Flexible Storage

• Eight drive bays: 
  Maximize 3.5” SATA/SAS¹ bays for up to 128TB of capacity
• Future-ready: 
  Top four bays can alternately use U.2 SSDs and you can create a hybrid config with real-world speeds up to 2750 MB/s
• Powerfully easy RAID: 
  Easily design your RAID config to your exact specs with softRAID

Docking Flexibility

• Connect more: 
  (1) USB-C and (2) USB-A 10Gb/s ports for peripherals and mobile devices
• See more: 
  DisplayPort 1.4 for connecting up to an 8K display⁴
• Fast media ingest:
• Front-side SD 4.0 and CFexpress card readers with up to 985MB/s speed
• Do more:
• Second Thunderbolt 3 port³ for daisy-chaining devices or additional display(s)

Flexpandable for Unique Needs

• Pick your card: 
  (1) PCIe slot for audio/video capture, networking, SSD storage, hardware RAID card, or I/O card

PERFECT FOR:

• In house Post Pros who need their Mac to do be able to do it all
• DIT’s in the field with serious storage and performance needs
• The Work From Home high-performance editor with demanding clients and serious deadlines
• High-end VFX artists with 4K EXR, DPX delivery needs
• Serious Colorists and Finishing Professionals who need a fast Mac, connectivity, AND storage

Includes SoftRAID: Easy and Complete Drive Management

Optimize and protectyour data with SoftRAID for Mac and Windows. SoftRAID makes RAID creation easy, no matter which type you need. Configure your preference of speed, size, and/or redundancy for your volume and start working. It’s that simple.