OWC’s extreme performance ThunderBlade might just be the ultimate working drive for media professionals. In terms of pure transfer speed, the ThunderBlade is at the absolute cutting edge of possibility. In a fast-paced, professional environment, time is money and performance is everything. The success of your project depends on quick data processing, and demands performance and efficiency working with uncompressed, high-bandwidth content streams. ThunderBlade delivers the performance to match – capable of unbelievable transfer speeds up to 2800MB/s read & 2450MB/s write. And with SoftRAID, two ThunderBlades can reach dizzying heights up to 3800MB/s. Designed to be rugged and dependable as well as blazing fast, the ThunderBlade is equally at home on the road, on set or in the edit suite. It’s compact and tough enough to withstand even the roughest treatment in between locations, and it comes complete with its own ballistic hard-shell case for even greater protection.

FEATURES:

• 8TB Capacity
• Up to 2800MB/s Read & 2450MB/s Write
• Daisy chain up to 6 Thunderbolt 3 devices
• Rugged portability in a sleek design
• Includes a custom-fit ballistic hard-shell case

SPECIFICATIONS:

• Interface (chipset): Thunderbolt 3: Intel DSL6540
• Drive Interface: M.2 NVMe (PCIe 3.0)
• Max Data Transfer Rate: Thunderbolt 3 : 40 Gb/s (or 5000 MB/s)
• Initial Configuration: RAID 0
• Hardware or Software RAID: Software
• RAID Levels Supported: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 4, RAID 5, RAID 10
• Housing Colour: Black
• Housing Material: Aluminum
• Capacity: 8TB
• Number of Bays: 4
• Power Supply: External UL-listed universal auto-switching
• AC input: 100~240V, 50/60Hz
• DC input: 15V @ 4.8A
• Ports: 2 x Thunderbolt 3
• Plug & Play: Yes
• Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.4 x 2.9 cm
• Weight: 676 g

WHAT’S IN THE BOX:

• OWC Thunderblade 2.5″ 8TB Thunderbolt 3 External SSD – Black x1
• 50 cm Thunderbolt 3 cable x1
• Power supply and cable x1
• Ballistic hard-shell case x1
• User Guide x1