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. On paper, Thunderbay seems faster, cheaper, and greater storage, though most people seem to go with Blackmagic. 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. I also readily welcome any suggestions on other equipment (drives, docks, or otherwise) that weren't mentioned here. 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. Though, I couldn’t see anywhere which drives they use when you choose that option. 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). On their website, the read speed listed for the Thunderbay (nearly 800mb/s) is much higher than speed listed for Blackmagic (>500mb/s). On paper, it seems like Thunderbay has the advantage. Is this mostly because of the noise that the Thunderbay makes? I’ve seen bits of comparison between the two in various threads, and it seems that most people go with Blackmagic. I’m wanting to upgrade my hard drive setup entirely, and I’m primarily deciding between getting a Blackmagic Multidock with 2 x Samsung 850 EVO 2TB and 2 x Samsung 850 EVO 1TB or a OWC Thunderbay 4.
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