
Whether youre using 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch HDDs and/or SSDs, the drives mount in alphabetically labeled trays for easy identification and are secured by a thumb screw.

ThunderBay 8 makes it easy to keep large data sets organized for every project thanks to its eight hot swappable drive bays. Thorough: full TRIM support improves internal and external SSD performance in all RAID levels.Outperforms: up to 86% faster than AppleRAID.Vigilant: predictive warnings help protect against unexpected drive failure.Certified: drives are validated before use to ensure they are safe for data storage.Verify: volume validation ensures sectors can be read, parity is correct, and any potential volume failure is minimized.Advanced: create RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, 1+0 (10) volumes (RAID 6, 6+ coming in 2020) and get email notifications for drive and RAID volume health with SoftRAID XT.Its that simple to create your preference of speed and/or redundancy for your data volume. With multiple RAID options, you decide what youre using your RAID volume for and how much space to allocate to it. SoftRAID makes it a breeze to create RAID volumes by helping you through the entire process. Now you can quickly access and robustly protect your data with SoftRAID for Mac. Includes SoftRAID: Easy and Complete Drive Management Now you can capture vast amounts of footage from multiple cameras or store vast libraries of production work with a unified and reliable storage solution. Need even more capacity? Daisy-chain up to six of these capacity behemoths together for up to a staggering 768TB. Whatever your set up, when youre racing against a deadline, ThunderBay 8 puts you in the winners circle. You can even configure multiple ThunderBay 8 solutions connected via multiple Thunderbolt 3 ports on your Mac or PC to achieve exponential speed increases. With Thunderbolt 3 offering real-world transfer rates up to 2586MB/s and the ability to RAID together eight SSDs or HDDs, ThunderBay 8s rugged, field-tested aluminum design has the under-the-hood horsepower needed to conquer high-bandwidth requirements. Photo, film and video editors can take advantage of the largest capacity desktop RAID storage solution weve ever offered to handle the voracious drive space appetite of RAW, 4K, large format, and VR workflows. The OWC ThunderBay 8 is like a high-performance personal data center that offers multiple configuration options to suit ever-expanding storage needs. This latest addition to the popular ThunderBay line, introduced in 2014, now offers eight drive bays for either 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch HDDs and/or SSDs in any combination. Professional Grade 8-Bay Thunderbolt 3 Storage Solution
