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An adapter cable if needed, stepping down from Thunderbolt 4 or 3 to 2.Two color sets of plastic craft/photo cases, 4 each set.Four matching 7200 RPM hard drives- I try to match the cache sizes too.ThunderBay 4 (or 8), hosting 4 (or 8) drives with Thunderbolt 3 (40 Gb/s).TB 2 should deliver enough speed for at least 2 streams 4K ProRes (HQ). Any fast Mac or Windows machine hosting a Thunderbolt 2, 3, or 4 port.What’s required for well-organized swapping and archival of drives with a ThunderBay 4 RAID? To me this describes a Forever RAID system-FRS. Cheaper, but thin thinking.Ī ThunderBay 4 box, bundled with SoftRAID-the hidden magic which binds a bunch of hard drives into a speed demon, backup beast, or both-met my expectation: follow procedure, and I could pull, shelve, or reload a RAID kit and spin it up, (or replace a failed disk). The doors are for swapping out failed disks and rebuilding a RAID- that’s it. But something told me to first reread the docs. Utter disaster! Some sellers don’t tell you this. Load it in and it’s overwritten with a new key. You’re locked out, because they offer no persistent disk key or other disk cycling mechanism.

SOFTRAID OPTIMIZED FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE

Some popular RAID products are dead-end RAID boxes- DERBS! Some even have drive doors and multi-disk slots-you might think these enable you to cycle out a RAID set and archive it, but try to reload it? Nope. NVMe blades are much lighter, but spinners hold their data for much longer, without powering up. Shelving must be sturdy these spinning 4-drive sets get heavy- roughly 15 pounds per set. I sure do! It’s pretty simple, and goes smoothly, if you follow a procedure. Wouldn’t you like to unload a RAID set and park the actual disks on a shelf, for a particular client or project for several months? Then load a fresh bunch of disks into the box for a new client or project? And archive a bunch of these sets in loud color-coded cases, to reload when you need them? Or, maybe a new assignment has surfaced and will need its own storage.

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Or, maybe a series job is done but may return within a year or so.

Maybe your OWC ThunderBay 4 RAID is getting full, passing 15% free space. I’m nominating all involved for Life Achievement Awards. Their patience, clarifications, and wisdom are everywhere in this article.

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Tim’s a driver builder since 1986!- and leads a crack engineering team. in Product Marketing also helped, and included SoftRAID® founder Tim Standing in the investigation. Visit him at /neotrondesign, say hello and tell him why.Īuthor’s Note: For this article, I was educated by ever-patient Cynthia H., Tim E., and Liz at OWC’s Technical Experience and Sales sections respectively. Today, he’s fully digital, and remote edits from coast-to-coast, consults, reviews products, and teaches. Miller has edited one Oscar-winning short documentary, Karl Hess:Toward Liberty, two Oscar nominees, and three Student Oscar winners all originated on 16mm film.

Softraid optimized for digital photography