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Name: 48TB OWC ThunderBay 8 Thunderbolt 3 RAID Enterprise Drive Storage Solution
Brand: OWC
SKU: OWCTB38SRE048
Price: 2699 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

ThunderBay 8
48.0TB Thunderbolt 3 RAID Enterprise Drive Storage Solution

Professional Grade 8-Bay Thunderbolt 3 Storage Solution

Like a Data Center on Your Desk

This latest addition to the popular ThunderBay line, introduced in 2014, now offers eight drive bays for either 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch HDDs and/or SSDs in any combination. The OWC ThunderBay 8 is like a high-performance personal data center that offers multiple configuration options to suit ever-expanding storage needs. Photo, film and video editors can take advantage of the largest capacity desktop RAID storage solution we’ve ever offered to handle the voracious drive space appetite of RAW, 4K, large format, and VR workflows.

Conquer High Bandwidth Demands

With Thunderbolt 3 offering real-world transfer rates up to 2586MB/s and the ability to RAID together eight SSDs or HDDs, ThunderBay 8’s rugged, field-tested aluminum design has the under-the-hood horsepower needed to conquer high-bandwidth requirements. You can even configure multiple ThunderBay 8 solutions connected via multiple Thunderbolt 3 ports on your Mac or PC to achieve exponential speed increases. Whatever your set up, when you’re racing against a deadline, ThunderBay 8 puts you in the winner’s circle.

Monstrous Capacity

Need even more capacity? Daisy-chain up to six of these capacity behemoths together for up to a staggering 768TB. Now you can capture vast amounts of footage from multiple cameras or store vast libraries of production work with a unified and reliable storage solution.

Includes SoftRAID: Easy and Complete Drive Management

Now you can quickly access and robustly protect your data with SoftRAID for Mac. SoftRAID makes it a breeze to create RAID volumes by helping you through the entire process. With multiple RAID options, you decide what you’re using your RAID volume for and how much space to allocate to it. It's that simple to create your preference of speed and/or redundancy for your data volume.

Highlights

Pro-grade transfer speeds: up to 2586MB/s real-world tested speed with Thunderbolt 3 port
Eight hot-swappable universal drive bays: mix or match 2.5-inch (no adapter needed) and 3.5-inch HDDs and SSDs
Includes SoftRAID: robust software for creating, monitoring, and managing advanced RAID sets
See your work: DisplayPort 1.2 for connecting up to a 4K display
Daisy-chain expansion: second Thunderbolt 3 port for adding up to five additional Thunderbolt devices
Quick drive swaps: thumb screw release trays
Plug-and-play ready: no drivers needed and includes Thunderbolt 3 cable
Thunderbolt certified for Mac and Windows
OWC ClingOn ready: cable stabilizer prevents work session interruption and possible data loss

SoftRAID highlights:

Advanced: Create RAID 0, 1, 4, 5, 1+0 (10) volumes (RAID 6, 6+ coming in soon) and get email notifications for drive and RAID volume health with SoftRAID XT (Mac only)
Verify: volume validation ensures sectors can be read, parity is correct, and any potential volume failure is minimized
Certified: drives are validated before use to ensure they are safe for data storage
Vigilant: predictive warnings help protect against unexpected drive failure
Outperforms: up to 86% faster than AppleRAID
Thorough: full TRIM support improves internal and external SSD performance in all RAID levels

Swap and Identify Drives Easily

ThunderBay 8 makes it easy to keep large data sets organized for every project thanks to its eight hot swappable drive bays. Whether you’re using 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch HDDs and/or SSDs, the drives mount in alphabetically labeled trays for easy identification and are secured by a thumb screw. If you want the freedom to access an extensive collection of drives quickly, you can create a drive “bullpen” with additional OWC drive trays (sold separately).

Engineered for 24/7 Reliability

This ThunderBay 8 solution utilizes enterprise-class rated hard drives that deliver higher reliability, lower TCO, and better ROI than lower cost desktop drives. These extreme use capable drives can offer heavy duty components, sophisticated anti-vibration technology, and advanced firmware programming to enable ThunderBay 8 to handle 24 x 7 workloads of 550TB/year…up to 10X higher than a storage solution using consumer drives which are typically rated at 50TB/year. Then add in up to a 5X longer MTBF rating and 5-year warranty and this ThunderBay 8 solution delivers a peace of mind ownership that’s priceless.

As Secure as a Bank Vault

With a locking front panel and security slot on the backside, the ThunderBay 8 is like an ironclad vault l for your data. Plus, with front panel LEDs indicating the status of each drive, you’ll know at a glance if your data is secure.

See More, Do More

ThunderBay 8 isn’t just about high-capacity, high-performance storage. It’s about giving you all the options you need to work at your best. Attach a 5K Thunderbolt display or two 4K displays. Place a USB 3.1 device at the end of a daisy chain. With an extra Thunderbolt 3 port, you have the flexibility to add more devices to your workflow and master any task at hand.

Secure Your Workflow with OWC ClingOn

Greatly reduce — if not eliminate — cable strain and accidental disconnects with the OWC ClingOn. These custom cable stabilizers (sold separately) screw into the ThunderBay 8's housing to secure your Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C connections and prevent work session interruption and possible data loss.

Product Notes

Sequential read/write performance with 8 x 2.0TB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD in RAID 0 connected to iMac Pro Late 2017 (iMacPro1,1) with 32GB RAM and 3.2GHz processor running AJA System Test (4K-Full resolution, 64GB file size, 10bit RGB codec, single file test).
Apple Mac models with Thunderbolt 2/Thunderbolt ports can be connected using an Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter (sold separately). This configuration provides data transfer at up to 20Gb/s but does not support notebook charging.
ClingOn sold separately. Visit http://go.owc.com/clingon for more information.

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Product Specifications:

OWC Part Number

OWCTB38SRE048

Standard Mechanism

6.0TB Toshiba MG06ACA Series Enterprise Class Specifications:

Specifications

Form Factor

3.5″ HDD

Interface

SATA 6.0Gb/s

Capacity

6.0TB

Formatted Capacity

5588GiB

Rotational Speed

7,200 RPM

Cache / Data Buffer

256MB

Manufacturer Model Number

MG06ACA600E

Format

Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)

Physical

Height (max)

2.6 cm (1.0 in

Width (max)

10.2 cm (4.0 in)

Length (max)

14.7 cm (5.8 in)

Weight (typical)

770.0 g (1.59 lbs)

Bytes per Sector

512 / 4k (512e)

Reliability

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)

2,500,000 hours

Contact Start Stops

600,000

Nonrecoverable Read Errors

1 per 10¹⁶ bits read

Power

Read Power (Max)

8.3 Watts

Write Mode (Max)

8.3 Watts

Idle Mode, Active (Max)

5.6 Watts

Environmental (Operating)

Shock

70 G max at 2ms

Ambient Temperature (°F)

32°F to 131°F

Ambient Temperature (°C)

0°C to 55°C

Relative Humidity (non-condensing)

5% to 90%

Altitude

-304.8 m to 3,048 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000+ ft)

Environmental (Non-Operating)

Ambient Temperature (°F)

-40°F to 158°F

Ambient Temperature (°C)

-40°C to 70°C

Shock

250 G max at 2 ms

Relative Humidity (non-condensing)

5% to 95%

Altitude

-304.8 m to 12,192 m (-1000 ft to 40,000+ ft)

Acoustics

Idle (Typical)

3.4 bels

Applications

Mid-line / Nearline Business Critical Workloads

Tier 2 Business-Critical Servers And Storage Systems

Workloads And Use-Cases That Benefit From High Capacity Per Spindle

Capacity-Optimized Storage Systems

Cloud-scale Storage Infrastructure

Data Archive And Back-up Infrastructure

1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.

In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB and refers to the actual formatted capacity of shown under Mac OS 10.5 or earlier and Microsoft Windows OS.

Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability rates.
8 x 6.0TB* Toshiba Hard Disk Drives**
*1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.

**OWC reserves the right to replace or upgrade to equivalent or better components.

Mac OS Compatibility

macOS 10.13 High Sierra
macOS 10.14 Mojave
macOS 10.15 Catalina

PC OS Compatibility

Windows 10 64-bit Edition
Windows Server 2016

Other Requirements

Thunderbolt 3 Port

Ports

(2) Thunderbolt 3 Ports
(1) DisplayPort

Number of Bays

(8) 3.5"/2.5" SATA

Housing Color

Black

Housing Material

Aluminum

Security Slot

Hot Swap Support

Driver Required

SoftRAID Only

Chipset

Thunderbolt: (1) Intel JHL6540
SATA Controller: (2) JMicron JMB-585

RAID Support

Software (SoftRAID)

RAID Levels Supported

RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 0+1
RAID 4
RAID 5
JBOD

Data Transfer Rate (Max)

Thunderbolt 3 : 40 Gb/s (or 5000 MB/s)

Bootable

Mac Only

Display Support

Supports up to two 4K displays @ 60Hz or one 5K display @ 60Hz
Thunderbolt 3: Up to 5K @ 60Hz via a native Thunderbolt 3 display or 4K @ 60Hz via a Thunderbolt display or a USB-C display adapter
DisplayPort 1.2: Up to 4K @ 60Hz

Power Button

Power Supply

Internal UL-listed universal auto-switching power supply

AC Input

3.5A At 115V,
1.8A At 230V

DC Output

+12V, 25A

Wattage

Cooling Fan

(1) 92mm cooling fan

Certifications

CE
FCC
VCCI
RCM
BSMI

Environment

Environmental (Operating)
- Temperature 41°F to 95°F (5°C to 35°C)
- Altitude -304.8 m to 3,048.0 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000 ft)
- Shock Varies depending on drive mechanism installed
Environmental (Non-Operating)
- Temperature -4°F to 140°F (-20°C to 60°C)
- Altitude -304.8 m to 12,192.0 m (-1,000 ft to 40,000 ft)
- Shock Varies depending on drive mechanism installed

Dimensions

Height: 18.0 cm (7.1 in
Width: 26.0 cm (10.2 in)
Length: 24.0 cm (9.4 in)

Weight

7.3 kg (16.14 lbs)

Acoustics

Varies depending on drive mechanism installed

Manufacturer provided specifications for Other World Computing p/n TB38SRE032 UPC#: 810586034548

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This product is compatible with... Learn how to find your Mac's model ID

Mac Pro Rack (Early 2020)

(January 2020)

Model ID: MacPro7,1

3.5GHz 8-Core

OWC

ThunderBay 8 48.0TB Thunderbolt 3 RAID Enterprise Drive Storage Solution

Product Notes

Product Specifications:

OWC Part Number

Standard Mechanism

6.0TB Toshiba MG06ACA Series Enterprise Class Specifications:

Specifications

Physical

Reliability

Power

Environmental (Operating)

Environmental (Non-Operating)

Acoustics

Applications

Mac OS Compatibility

PC OS Compatibility

Other Requirements

Ports

Number of Bays

Housing Color

Housing Material

Security Slot

Hot Swap Support

Driver Required

Chipset

RAID Support

RAID Levels Supported

Data Transfer Rate (Max)

Bootable

Display Support

Power Button

Power Supply

AC Input

DC Output

Wattage

Cooling Fan

Certifications

Environment

Dimensions

Weight

Acoustics

Gallery

Benchmarks

Includes

Videos

ThunderBay 8
48.0TB Thunderbolt 3 RAID Enterprise Drive Storage Solution