On paper, it seems like Thunderbay has the advantage. On their website, the read speed listed for the Thunderbay (nearly 800mb/s) is much higher than speed listed for Blackmagic (>500mb/s). Also, if you get it configured to 20TB using drives that OWC provides, it’s roughly $1400 less than the Blackmagic setup I’m considering (along with providing a buttload more storage). Though, I couldn’t see anywhere which drives they use when you choose that option. Does anyone have any experience with the drives that come with the Thunderbay? Or know what they are? If they’re bad and I’d need to get the Samsungs anyway, then that price advantage for it disappears.Īlso, this setup will be solely for sample streaming. I also readily welcome any suggestions on other equipment (drives, docks, or otherwise) that weren't mentioned here. Any help in this is greatly appreciated!īlackmagic with a bunch of Samsung EVOs or Thunderbay with 20TB of OWC-provided drives? This will be used only for sample streaming. On paper, Thunderbay seems faster, cheaper, and greater storage, though most people seem to go with Blackmagic.
If you're looking at the OWC Thunderbay-4 as opposed to the Thunderbay-Mini, you may have missed the fact that the Thunderbay-4 uses standard, full-sized 3.5" drives, and NOT the 2.5" form factor that SSD's come in. The Thunderbay-4 is intended for use with mechanical spinning hard drives (although it may be possible to kludge together a solution that allows 2.5" SSDs to fit in the 3.5" bays). The Thunderbay-4 can offer some decent RAID speeds for a spinning drive setup, and very high capacity, but.
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