OWC ThunderBay 4 RAID 5 (Thunderbolt 3) 16TB

OWC ThunderBay 4 RAID 5 (Thunderbolt 3) (16TB)

ThunderBay 4, OWC’s 4-bay RAID flagship is now bigger and faster than ever. Now available with the incredible performance of Thunderbolt 3 – up to 1527MB/s supported speeds – in combination with the enclosed RAID software the ThunderBay 4 is the ultimate workhorse amongst external enclosures.

The ThunderBay 4 RAID 5 Thunderbolt 3 is not only more quiet, is natively compatible with both 3.5” and 2.5” drives and has a newly designed chassis which is cooler and quieter. Designed with performance in mind to harness the speed of Thunderbolt 3. OWC’s ThunderBay 4 is an amazingly flexible external enclosure with the throughput to support multi-stream compressed 4K video’s and other bandwidth intensive processes.

Specifications

Software Requirements

• macOS 10.12 or later
• Windows 10 or later

Hardware Requirements

• Mac or PC featuring Thunderbolt 3 interface
• Mac or PC featuring Thunderbolt or Thunderbolt 2 interface1

Interface (Chipset)

• (2) Thunderbolt 3 (Intel DSL6540)
• (1) DisplayPort

Max Transfer Rate

• Thunderbolt 3: 40 Gb/s (5000 MB/s)

JBOD / RAID Support

• JBOD: Utilize each of the four drives independently
• RAID: Use the included SoftRAID software RAID to setup the ThunderBay 4 for RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, and 10

Drives Supported

• (4) 3.5" SATA 6Gb/s drives or
• (4) 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s drives
  • SATA revision 3.0 (6Gb/s) compliant
  • Compatible with SATA revisions 2.0 (3Gb/s) and 1.0 (1.5Gb/s)

Kensington Lock Slot

• Yes

LED

• Yes (Power and disk activity)

Plug and Play

• Yes

Power

• Power Supply
• AC input: 100 - 230V

Environment

• Environmental (Operating)
  • Temperature (°F) 50° — 95°
  • Temperature (°C) 10° — 35°
• Environmental (Non-Operating)
  • Temperature (°F) −40° — 149°
  • Temperature (°C) −40° — 65°

Dimensions

• Height: 7.0 in (177 mm)
• Width: 5.3 in (135 mm)
• Length: 9.6 in (245 mm)

Weight

• 9 kg (8.6 lbs)