OWC Thunderbay Flex 8 96TB HDD RAID Thunderbolt 3 Storage Docking Station w/PCIe Capabilities

Power your notebook with up to 85W power delivery while capturing multi-stream hi-res footage at full frame rate. Connect audio and video mixers, digital camera, keyboards, and charge mobile devices via one USB-C and two USB-A 10Gb/s ports. Ingest and work with 4/8K RAW video and RAW photo files immediately at speeds up to 985MB/s with frontside SD 4.0 and CFexpress card readers. Daisy-chain up to five additional Thunderbolt 3 devices! Second Thunderbolt 3 port for daisy chaining devices or additional display (s). (1) PCIe slot for audio/video capture, networking, SSD storage, hardware RAID card, or I/O card

Right out of the packaging, all eight bays can utilize SATA 6Gb/s 2.5 -inch SSDs or 3.5 -inch HDDs. To take advantage of 40Gb/s PCIe technology, the top four bays are NVMe U. 2 SSD ready. These emerging super-fast SSDs enable ThunderBay Flex 8 to meet the future storage needs of content creators and video production pros.

Are you a video pro working with 4K/8K and even Phantom high-speed files? The ThunderBay Flex 8 offers a variety of drive configurations that deliver real-world read/write speeds of 2, 750MB/s that saturate the Thunderbolt 3 speed threshold.
Try any of these options: Eight FLE
Xible drive bays with up to 2, 750MB/s real world speedFour top bays: install your choice of U. 2 NVMe SSDs (one bay PCIe 3.0 x4, three bays PCIe 3.0 x1), 2.5 -inch SATA 6Gb/s SSDs, or 3.5 -inch SATA 6Gb/s HDDs.
Four bottom bays: install your choice of 2.5 -inch or 3.5 -inch SATA 6Gb/s drives. Removing the SATA drive controller and replacing with a SAS controller card enables use of faster SAS HDDs. Swap out the built-in SATA drive controller card with a SATA/SAS hardware RAID card and configure 8 x SATA/SAS drives in hardware RAID 0

By removing the enclosures side panel, you can expand your capabilities by installing a half-length, full-height, single-width expansion card in the PCIe x16 connector/x4 lanes slot. Add a 4K video capture card for direct ingest of multi-stream high-res footage. Record high-quality tracks with an audio card and then edit and archive tracks. Create a powerful file server with a high-speed networking card. By replacing the built-in SATA drive controller with a SATA or SAS RAID card, you can even turn ThunderBay Flex 8 into a hardware RAID storage solution while keeping a PCIe slot open for other cards.

Now you can quickly access and robustly protect your data with SoftRAID. SoftRAID makes it a breeze to create RAID volumes by helping you through the entire process. With multiple RAID options, you decide what youre using your RAID volume for and how much space to allocate to it. Its that simple to create your preference of speed and/or redundancy for your data volume.
SoftRAID highlights:
Advanced: create RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, 1+0 (10) volumes (RAID 6, 6+ coming soon) and get email notifications for drive and RAID volume health with SoftRAID Pro (Mac only).
Verify: volume validation ensures sectors can be read, parity is correct, and any potential volume failure is minimized.
Certified: drives are validated before use to ensure they are safe for data storage.
Vigilant: predictive warnings help protect against unexpected drive failure.
Outperforms: up to 86% faster than AppleRAID.
Thorough: full TRIM support improves internal and external SSD performance in all RAID levels.