IanCutress: Stop ? quoting ? old ? drivers ? still ? on ?team ? payrolls ? talking ? about ? their ?team ? as if ? neutral.I was hoping for some wafers or something. 11 lots of (now probably aging) hardware. RyanSmithAT: The sale to SK hynix also means that Intel's NAND SSDs are no longer Intel's.Technically Intel will still be making SSDs for a couple of years RyanSmithAT: Eh, no more than any other old SSD.Promise Launches Pegasus3 External Storage via TB3: Up to 48 TB, 1.6 GBps.HighPoint RocketStor 6618 Thunderbolt 3 DAS: 8-Bays, Up to 96 TB, 2.7 GB/s, $999.OWC Ships ThunderBlade External SSDs, Touts SoftRAID Tech for 3800 MB/s Speeds.OWC Unveils Second-Gen ThunderBlade External SSDs: 2800 MB/s Starting at $799.
OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock / DAS Combo: TB3, up to 28 TB, USB 3.0, DP, GbE, SD.
Enclosures populated with SSDs or HDDs are priced depending on capacity and type of software that comes with them. The barebones OWC ThunderBay 4 Mini with SoftRAID Lite XT costs $299.99, whereas a version with SoftRAID XT is priced at $379.99. The applications support both Apple macOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems, so the DAS is compatible with a wide variety of computers available today. OWC will offer the ThunderBay 4 Mini with either its SoftRAID XT or SoftRAID XT Lite software, depending on the model and required RAID level. Layered on top of the hardware to provide both multi-disk performance and redundancy is OWC's SoftRAID software. To ensure stable operation and consistent performance, the DAS comes equipped with a fan. Given constraints imposed by a SATA 6 Gbps interface and the ASM1062 chip, the ThunderBay 4 Mini can offer up to 1556 MB/s read/write performance when equipped with four SATA SSDs, or around 560 MB/s when populated with four Seagate’s 2.5-inch 4 TB hard drives. The OWC ThunderBay 4 Mini DAS can accommodate four 2.5-inch/15.5 mm storage devices and is based on Intel’s JHL6540 (dual-port TB3) and ASMedia’s ASM1062 (PCIe 2.0 x2 => two SATA 6 Gbps bridge) controllers. The device is aimed at various creative professionals who need an ample amount of reliable storage space, but in a relatively small package. The ThunderBay 4 Mini incorporates 4 2.5-inch storage bays, allowing it to store up to 16 TB of data, and with OWC touting transfer speeds of up to 1.5 GB/s. OWC has introduced a new small form factor high performance, high redundancy DAS for the professional market.