Name: 16.0TB (4 x 4TB) OWC ThunderBay 4, Dual Thunderbolt 20Gb-s ports - RAID 5 Edition
Brand: OWC
SKU: OWCTB2SRT16.0S
Price: 2304.99 AUD
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OWC ThunderBay 4
RAID 5 Edition

16.0TB 4-bay Professional-Grade Enclosure

Dual Thunderbolt 2 | RAID 5 | 4 Drive Bays | Mac

Performance + Redundancy

User configurable in RAID 0, 1, 4, 5 & 1+0
Up to 580MB/s read / 569MB/s write RAID 5 performance*
Up to 878MB/s read / 924MB/s write RAID 0 performance*
Exponentially faster rebuild times than hardware RAID
Intelligent drive monitoring with desktop & email notification

Experience the first and only software RAID 5 technology developed for the Mac with the ThunderBay 4 RAID 5 Edition. Empower your workflow with up to 35% faster RAID 5 performance and exponentially faster rebuild times than comparable hardware based RAID arrays. Activate advanced features, such as drive monitoring, e-mail notifications, and more when you install the included SoftRAID 5 for ThunderBay for OS X.

Conventional wisdom turned on its head.

Hardware RAID has long been thought to be superior to software RAID, but we've now combined the massive performance and capacity of ThunderBay 4 with a robust, proven software RAID engine to provide breathtaking performance, flexibility, and reliability.

Software RAID + ThunderBay = WHOA!

Over a year ago, OWC partnered with SoftRAID to bring enhanced storage capabilities to the Mac, and we're now seeing that dream become a reality. SoftRAID 5 for ThunderBay combines advanced RAID modes, fast performance, monitoring, e-mail notification, and fast rebuild capabilities that only software RAID can deliver.

Monitoring + Notifications

Software RAID easily lets you setup drive monitoring and e-mail notifications to keep you informed about your ThunderBay's performance and drive health. Helping you to maintain mission critical workflows.

Better than Hardware RAID Performance

ThunderBay 4 and the SoftRAID engine offers faster performance than many competing 4 or even 5-bay hardware RAID external drives – benefiting from modern processors that are both fast and designed for exceptionally high-performance RAID management with no real-world impact on apps or tasks.

Flexible + Robust

SoftRAID 5 for ThunderBay is extremely flexible and can easily be updated, reconfigured and used across multiple enclosures to provide an amazing amount of robust options to empower you to make the most of your ThunderBay workflow.

Empower your workflow with RAID 5 performance and up to 24TB capacity.

Edit, view, stream, and produce more with ThunderBay in your 2K, 4K, and audio production workflow.

The RAID 5 Advantage

RAID 5 merges the four drives inside ThunderBay together for exponential performance gains over a single drive, the combined capacity of three of the drives, and data redundancy that allows the array to still work even if one drive were to fail!

Edit, Experiment, Create, Design

With ThunderBay's performance capabilities you can complete projects faster, have more time to experiment, and push your creations to the next level.

Enhance editing capabilities in video apps like Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, and Avid Media Composer. Empower greater audio production capabilities in audio apps like Avid Pro Tools and Logic Pro X. Edit large photos in apps like Adobe Photoshop, and browse large photo libraries in apps like Apple Aperture and Adobe Lightroom. Simply put, you can do more with a ThunderBay 4 enhanced workflow, and with a RAID 5 array you get data redundancy on top of great performance!

4 drive bays plus so much more.

Time-Tested Cooling
Built on OWC's time-tested enclosure cooling technology, ThunderBay utilizes an open "flow-thru" vented design with an oversized 92 mm, low-turbulence, noise-quieting fan to keep the drives running cool and reliably. Multi-Drive

Multi-Drive
Daisy-chain up to six ThunderBays for massive storage capabilities and increased performance, or connect multiple ThunderBays to multiple Thunderbolt 2 ports to achieve exponential speed capabilities. Vibration Dampened

Vibration Dampened
ThunderBay's drive isolating design reduces sonic resonance, and is aided by over-sized, rugged, vibration-absorbing, non-skid feet. DisplayPort 1.2

DisplayPort 1.2 Support
Dual Thunderbolt ports let you connect the display of your choice that your computer can support, including 4K displays. Thunderbolt Cable

OWC Thunderbolt Cable
ThunderBay comes with an OWC one-meter certified Thunderbolt cable

*Speed dependent on drive mechanism

Includes

OWC ThunderBay 4 High-performance 4-bay Thunderbolt 2 interface drive
SoftRAID 5 for ThunderBay
High-Quality, Certified, Double-Shielded 1-Meter Thunderbolt cable
External UL listed 3-prong power cable
2 keys for front panel lock
User guide
Utility software bundle for Mac
1 Year OWC Enclosure Limited Warranty

Software

SoftRAID 5 for ThunderBay

OWC has partnered with SoftRAID to bring software RAID 5 to the Mac. SoftRAID combines advanced RAID modes, fast performance, monitoring, e-mail notification, and fast rebuild capabilities that only software RAID can deliver. ThunderBay 4 models with drives come preconfigured in RAID 5, and are plug and play ready with OS X 10.9 or later. Advanced features such as drive notification and monitoring require SoftRAID installation.

Prosoft Engineering® Data Backup 3 for Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later

Backup Made Easy. Data Backup makes it easy to backup to FireWire and USB drives, network drives, CDs and even DVDs. Make schedules so you don't need to 'think' about backing up... It does it for you.

Intech® SpeedTools Utilities™

Intech SpeedTools consists of a suite of utilities managed by an application which controls the launching, documentation and version control of each individual component utility, such as Disk Defrag and QuickBack. An easy-to-use installation and removal application is provided to make installation a snap, yet powerful enough to allow you to customize which utility component set you would like to create.

16.0TB (4 x 4TB) OWC ThunderBay 4, Dual Thunderbolt 20Gb-s ports - RAID 5 Edition

OWC ThunderBay 4
RAID 5 Edition

16.0TB 4-bay Professional-Grade Enclosure

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Software

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