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\"owc_thunderbay_lr\"While one OWC ThunderBay IV<\/a>\u00a0enclosure will give you tremendous storage capacity while packing in some serious performance, pairing two of the enclosures via two dedicated Thunderbolt<\/a> ports can make for even more incredible performance gains and\u00a0up to\u00a040TB of total storage!<\/p>\n

We ran some quick benchmarks with a Performance RAID 0 setup across two OWC ThunderBay IV enclosures connected to two Thunderbolt ports and got up to 1,786MB\/s read speeds!<\/p>\n

Check out our benchmarks below:<\/p>\n

\"Separate-TB-Buses\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A standalone OWC ThunderBay IV<\/a> is perfect for editing 2K and 4K video, audio, and graphics, and if you need even more power, you can simply add an additional ThunderBay IV to a computer with multiple Thunderbolt ports for exponential performance gains for your workflow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While one OWC ThunderBay IV\u00a0enclosure will give you tremendous storage capacity while packing in some serious performance, pairing two of the enclosures via two dedicated Thunderbolt ports can make for even more incredible performance gains and\u00a0up to\u00a040TB of total storage! 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