OWC ThunderBay 4 Mini RAID Enclosure

OWC ThunderBay 4 Mini RAID Enclosure with SoftRAID XT

Big RAID System Performance in a Compact Design

With four 2.5-inch drive bays, ThunderBay 4 mini transforms SSDs and HDDs into a pro-grade, Thunderbolt 3 storage solution in a compact design. The rugged heat-dissipating aluminum enclosure features two Thunderbolt 3 ports for up to 1556 MB/s speeds, so you can breeze through personal and business backups all the way up to today’s highest resolution audio, photo, and video formats.
Expand production capabilities in industry-leading creative platforms like Final Cut X, Avid Pro Tools, Apple Pro Logic, and Adobe Lightroom, edit large images, manage massive photo and audio libraries, store drone videos, use it as a transport drive…whatever the day or project demands, the ThunderBay 4 mini is the perfect workflow solution.

Store More, See More, Do More

With the ability to daisy-chain you can add up to five additional ThunderBay 4 mini solutions to create massive storage capacities. Merge them with SoftRAID for even more flexibility, capacity, and capability. Or if speed is what you’re after, connect multiple ThunderBay 4 mini solutions to multiple Thunderbolt 3 ports on your Mac or PC to achieve exponential speed capabilities.
Beyond storage, the sky is the limit for what you can connect. Attach a 5K Thunderbolt display or two 4K displays. Place a USB 3.1 device at the end of the chain. With an extra Thunderbolt 3 port, you have the flexibility to add to your daisy-chain and master any task at hand.

Easy and Complete Drive Management with SoftRAID XT

SoftRAID XT is the most powerful, intuitive RAID management software on the market for macOS and Windows. SoftRAID’s RAID creation and management technology has been finely tuned to perfection with over 20 years of development to provide rock solid protection of your data and optimize drive performance. It is packed with features like multiple RAID options, validation and verification of drives, and predictive disk failure with SoftRAID Monitor. SoftRAID provides a level of performance that you simply can’t get with hardware RAID.

MULTIPLE RAID LEVELS

Create advanced RAID 0/1/4/5/1+0 (10)¹volumes for higher performance and/or redundancy.²

DISK HEALTH

More accurate than SMART, SoftRAID protects your data by alerting you to issues before anything happens, providing peace of mind and giving you more time to address issues. Solutions that rely exclusively on SMART data can be seeing performance loss or corruption before flagging an issue.

CROSS-PLATFORM

Built-in MacDrive technology lets you read/write SoftRAID RAID 0/1 arrays and use them interchangeably between Windows and macOS.

FLEXIBLE, UPGRADEABLE

With SoftRAID you’re not locked to expensive hardware. SoftRAID is upgradable and portable.

EASY LICENSE MANAGEMENT

New license management enables quick activation or deactivation so your license can move moved between computers.

COMPATIBLE

Works with macOS 10.12 or later (including Big Sur), M1 Macs, and Windows 10.³

SoftRAID is ideal for anyone who needs to safely store and backup massive amounts of data, including video editors, audio producers, photographers and graphic designers.