OWC ThunderBay 4 mini

Name: 1.0TB OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-drive SSD with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready JBOD Solution
SKU: OWCTB4MJBSSD01T
Price: 899.99 USD
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 4.71 (17 reviews)

1.0TB Portable 4-Bay External Drive

Dual Thunderbolt 2 | RAID Ready | 4 Drive Bays | Mac

The Speed You Need.

Four 2.5" drive bays, perfect for SSDs
Breathtaking Thunderbolt 2 performance
RAID-ready
Up to 1317MB/s read / 1320MB/s write RAID 0 performance.

Empower your production workflow on-the-go with this super-fast, 4-Bay, RAID-ready drive. Optimized for 2.5" drives and perfect for SSDs, ThunderBay 4 mini takes your creativity to the next level by supporting the most demanding applications, including workflows involving 4K, 2K, uncompressed HD, and multi-stream SD video. Easily transport your data between production environments with this portable, professional-grade Thunderbolt 2 powerhouse.

Do more with a ThunderBay enhanced workflow.

Expand production capabilities for industry-leading creative platforms like Final Cut X, Avid Pro Tools, and Adobe Lightroom with this incredibly fast and portable 4-bay drive. With ThunderBay 4 mini, you can add up to four 2.5" hard drives, SSDs, or a mix of both to suit your performance needs. Utilize the drives independently, or use the software RAID configuration of your choice to achieve an optimal balance of storage, performance, and data-redundancy.

Certified and Tested

Each ThunderBay undergoes OWC's multi-hour drive "burn-in" performance certification procedure prior to shipping. This ensures your ThunderBay arrives operating properly and ready for demanding use.

Gallery

3 Year OWC Solution Limited Warranty
48 Hour Warranty Service
1 Year Level 1 Data Recovery Service

4 drive bays plus so much more.

Cool + Whisper Quiet
A durable, heat-dissipating, aluminum unibody shell features a "flow-thru" vented design coupled with a 60 mm whisper-quiet fan. DisplayPort 1.2

4K Display Support
Dual Thunderbolt 2 ports let you connect any display that your computer can support, including 4K displays. Vibration Dampened

Vibration Dampened
ThunderBay's drive isolating design reduces sonic resonance, and is aided by rugged, vibration-absorbing, non-skid feet. Multi-Drive

Flexible Expansion
Daisy-chain up to six ThunderBays on a single Thunderbolt port for expansive storage, RAID, and performance options. Thunderbolt Cable

OWC Thunderbolt Cable
ThunderBay comes with an OWC one-meter certified Thunderbolt cable, with other lengths from 0.5 meter to 30 meters available separately.

Includes

OWC ThunderBay 4 mini High-performance 4-bay Thunderbolt 2 interface drive
High-Quality, Certified, Double-Shielded 1-Meter Thunderbolt cable
External UL listed 3-prong power cable
2 keys for front panel lock
ThunderBay 4 mini Quick Start Guide
OWC ThunderBay 4 mini Assembly Manual & User Guide (Download Only)
Utility software bundle for Mac and PC
OWC 3-Year Solution Limited Warranty with 48-Hour Turnaround Time
Complimentary 1-Year, Level-1 Data Recovery

Gallery

Product Specifications

Chipset

Thunderbolt 2

Interfaces Supported

Thunderbolt 2

JBOD / RAID Support

JBOD: Utilize each of the four drives independently
RAID: Use any Software RAID of your choice to setup the ThunderBay 4 for multi-drive performance or data redundancy.

Standard Mechanism

240GB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD Specifications:

Specifications

Controller

SandForce 228x Series Processor with 7% Over Provisioning

NAND

Tier 1 Major Multi-Level Cell (MLC) High-Performance Sync-NAND Flash

Form Factor

Standard 7mm 2.5"

Interface

SATA 6Gb/s, 3Gb/s & 1.5Gb/s supported, SATA 3.0 Compliant

Capacity¹

240GB useable capacity
Total Flash Memory Components – 256GB
16GB allocated to real-time data redundancy & error correction

Formatted Capacity²

223GiB

RAID Support

Qualified for single drive and multiple drive production workstation RAID 0/1/10/0+1 and SPAN usage.

SMART Attributes

Standard⁵

Native Command Queuing

up to 32 commands

Manufacturer Model Number

OWCSSD7P6G240

RoHS Compliant

Yes

Format

Unformatted (Instructions on formatting here)

Physical

Height (max)

7mm (0.276″)

OWC 7mm – 9.5mm Adapter

1 included (buy additional)

Width (max)

70.06mm (2.758″)

Length (max)

100.12mm (3.941″)

Weight

77 grams +/- 2 grams
0.170 lbs +/- 2.71 oz

Reliability³

Data Reliability

ECC Recovery: Up to 55 bytes correctable per 512-byte sector

Security

Chip Based Data Encryption: 128-bit AES-compliant

TRIM Support

OS Dependent

Nonrecoverable Read Errors

Less than 1 sector per 10¹⁶ bits read

Warranty

5 Year OWC SSD Limited Warranty
(Standard return policy applies.)

Performance

Sustained
Reads 6Gb/s (up to)

510MB/s

Sustained
Writes 6Gb/s (up to)

503MB/s

Random 4K Read⁴

Up to 60,000 IOPS

Random 4K Write⁴

Up to 60,000 IOPS

Read Latency

less than 0.1ms

Write Latency

less than 0.1ms

Power

Active

Read: 3000mW (3.0W) Maximum draw
Write: 4500mW (4.5W) Maximum draw

Idle

Less than 1000mW (1.0W)

Environmental (Operating)

Temperature (°F)

32°F to 158°F

Temperature (°C)

0°C to 70°C

Environmental (Non-Operating)

Temperature (°F)

-40°F to 185°F

Temperature (°C)

-40°C to 85°C

Acoustics

Idle (Typical)

0.0 bels

Seek (Typical)

0.0 bels

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.
Specifications provided by SandForce.
Temperature reporting is currently an unsupported feature because due to the operating characteristics of SSDs, it is highly unlikely one would ever exceed an OWC Mercury SSD's stated operating temperature ceiling of 158F/70C. However, we are looking into supporting this feature in the future via a firmware update. Firmware updates can be found here: http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/OWC/SSD.

4 x 240GB* OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G Solid State 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.

Port Configuration

Thunderbolt – (2) Thunderbolt 2 ports

Max Data Transfer Rate

Thunderbolt 2 – 20Gb/sec

Port/Interface Bootability

It can be used as a Thunderbolt startup drive on Macs running Mac OS X.

System Requirements

Any Mac with a Thunderbolt port running OS X 10.9 or later.
Any PC running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or later with a Thunderbolt port. Driver required for proper installation. (3.3 MB ZIP)
Boot Camp is not supported. The Thunderbolt certification process does not include Macs running Windows through Boot Camp.

Software Included

Intech® Hard Disk SpeedTools Utilities™ OEM (For Mac OS 8.6 – X only)
ProSoft Engineering® Data Backup for Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later
Over 1.5GB of Freeware, Shareware, Public domain software installed

Power Supply

UL Listed U.S./International Auto Switching 100 ~ 240v, 50/60Hz input, 12 Volt 6.0 Amp output Power Supply (power cords for International use sold separately).

External Case Dimensions

7.6"(D) x 3.8"(W) x 4.6"(H)
19.3cm x 9.6cm x 11.6cm

Enclosure Weight (no accessories)

Approximately 2.4 pounds (1.1kg)

Operating Environment:

Temperature

(operating) 5°C – 42°C (41°F – 107°F)
(non-operating) -40°C – 65°C (-40°F – 149°F)

Relative Humidity

(operating) 8% – 90% RH (Non-condensing)
(non-operating) 5% – 95% RH (Non-condensing)

Shock

65G 2mS; (non-operating) 175G 2mS

Vibration

(operating) 1.0G (5 – 300Hz)
(non-operating) 5.0G (5 – 500Hz)

Warranty

3 Year OWC Solution Limited Warranty

The best warranty is one you never have to use, but should the need occur – OWC is proud to provide a superior level of support and warranty coverage to our customers. Even when not used, we understand the peace of mind afforded by a longer warranty period. OWC's industry leading coverage is a testament to our confidence in the reliability of the solutions that we offer. OWC solutions are engineered to demanding quality standards in order to deliver the most reliable, highest performance available on the market in each storage category.

View more information about the 3 Year OWC Solution Limited Warranty

Note: Do not disassemble or otherwise open your OWC solution prior to the conclusion of the 3 Year OWC Solution Limited Warranty period. Doing so will void the remainder of the OWC warranty.

Manufacturer provided specifications for Other World Computing p/n TB4MJBSSD01T UPC#: 812437020977

Software

Prosoft Engineering® Data Backup 3 for OS X v10.2.8 or later

Backup Made Easy. Data Backup makes it easy to backup to FireWire and USB drives, network drives, CDs and even DVDs. Make schedules so you don't need to 'think' about backing up... It does it for you.
A $59.00 Value! View detailed software info, or click here to purchase softwareseparately from solution

NovaStor NovaBACKUP® Solution for Windows®

NovaBACKUP has been helping millions of users recover from data loss and disasters for over 18 years. Feature rich, NovaBACKUP provides a powerful backup solution. Built-in support for hundreds of the most popular storage devices and a step-by-step backup and restore wizard makes NovaBACKUP extremely easy to use. Requires Windows 2000 or later.
A $49.95 Value! View detailed software info

Intech® SpeedTools Utilities™

Intech SpeedTools consists of a suite of utilities managed by an application which controls the launching, documentation and version control of each individual component utility, such as Disk Defrag and QuickBack. An easy-to-use installation and removal application is provided to make installation a snap, yet powerful enough to allow you to customize which utility component set you would like to create.
An $89.95 Value! View detailed software info, or click here to purchase software separately from solution

Benchmarks

Click any of the benchmarks below to view the results.

Reviews

Customer Ratings

Write a Review 4.7 / 5 14 out of 17 (82%) reviewers would recommend this product

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: PickyRicky Location: Naples, FL Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 5/5 Solid - Pro Quality April 1, 2018 I like the small footprint of the 2.5" disks. I use mine in a configuration of 2 - 1TB WD Blue SSD in a Raid 0 (Striped) for my photo processing (scratch) then move the finished photos to my OWC Mercury Pro Qx2 with 4 - 4TB Seagate NAS in a Raid5 configuration for picture storage. In the remaining two bays I have 2 - 2TB Seagate gaming disks in a Raid 1 (mirror) configuration for my iMac Photos and iTunes files. It performs without fail for the last 1 year. It fits anywhere on my desk or cabinet.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure. Customer Videos:

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: pre3 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 4/5 Great product, but now dated. February 7, 2018 This is a fantastic enclosure, and is only slightly dated by the inclusion of Thunderbolt 3 on new Mac models. I've achieved over 1GB/s with this enclosure, and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it if you have Thunderbolt 2 connectors.

It is not whisper quiet, however, and for some media rooms will not be acceptable. I'd be 5 stars if it weren't for the fan noise.

This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure. Customer Videos:

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: Farrow Location: Eastern Time Zone Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 5/5 Excellent product - love it. September 18, 2017 I have been using this product for 2 years now and I love it. I have four 500gb Samsung ssd's in it and it works very well. It is fast enough to run lots of different vm's off it at the same time.

I would buy again in a heart beat. I am hoping owc upgrades it to Thunderbolt 3.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure. Customer Videos:

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: ColoradoBound Location: Colorado Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 4/5 Good Unit November 7, 2016 I have been happy with my drive enclosure. It is small and nice and quiet. The only negative I have is that it uses too much power. I was building a low power server based on a Mac Mini and this enclosure and even without any SSD drives installed it uses more power than the Mac Mini.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure. Customer Videos:

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: EnforcerViper Location: Winnipeg Age: 35-44 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 5/5 Very reliable! August 30, 2016 I have two of these, both filled with SSD drives and they have both been flawless and rock solid. The thunderbolt connection is wicked fast.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure. Customer Videos:

Reviewer: Anurag Location: New York Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 3/5 Good but quite noisy August 29, 2016 The whole idea of getting an SSD storage array was to get something I can keep on my desk. However, with the Thunderbay 4 mini I cannot do that. The drives are quite but the fan is way too noisy. They rally need a spend a couple more bucks on a quality fan to make this a quality product. What compounds this is that the drives don't sleep when not used but only when the entire computer goes to sleep - which for me only happens at night.

I read others having replaced the fan with a much quieter noctua fan - but unfortunately I could not figure out how to do that.

Highly recommend OWC make a truly quiet device the next time.

This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure. Customer Videos:

Response from MacSales.com, Product Development August 30, 2016 In May we moved to a brand new fan solution and reduced/eliminated the noise level from the fan noted. We are always listening to all customer feedback and further working to improve products on an ongoing basis and fan noise was high on the list from the beginning and something that was successfully mitigated with product currently shipping.

Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Central Texas Age: 25-34 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Excellent! June 12, 2016 This awesome little device works exactly as it is supposed to! I took several old hard drives from previous laptops, reformatted them, and put them into this enclosure. They worked immediately! Two of them or solid-state drive, and they read and write almost as fast as if the hard drives when the laptop itself. I recommend this product to anyone! You definitely get what you pay for!

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure.

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Seattle, WA Age: 35-44 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Blazing fast March 17, 2016 I purchased this primarily to speed up my Lightroom collection, but it's turning out to be the defacto place to host VMs also. Windows 10 in Parallels doesn't feel virtualized at all. Five stars and well worth the hefty price if you need speed.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 2.0TB OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-drive SSD with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready JBOD Solution.

Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Vallejo, CA Age: 55-65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Goodbye internal drive bays, Hello Thunderbay Mini! February 29, 2016 I put off moving to a new computer for a long time because I didn't want to lose the 4 drive bays on my trusty Mac Pro 1.1. Finally bit the bullet, if getting a gorgeous 27inch iMac can be called "biting the bullet". Thunderbay Mini to the rescue for my data storage.

I've been putting it, (and SoftRaid) through their paces and so far the performance is admirable. I love the small form factor. I am using 2 units with OBR10 (one big RAID 10) across 8 2TB drives, giving 8TB of highly redundant data storage. A 3rd set of disks will serve as offsite storage, to be swapped with one set of mirrors on a periodic basis. Should keep me for awhile, at least until the next bump in drive sizes.

Only 2 nits to pick. One is the markings for the drive lights are practically invisible. Not that big a deal for such a compact device; you can identify the lights positionally. But still, someone did go to the trouble of specifying and implementing markings. I'm at a loss as to why making them actually be visible did not seem to be a concern.

Second nit is with the associated Soft Raid product. The software has been working quite well, and does its job very efficiently. However there does seem to be a lot of promotion of RAID 5 as a storage strategy. In part due to that, my initial direction was with RAID 5. Upon further research I have run across many warnings that RAID 5 is definitely not recommended for modern drive sizes, and considered a bad option. Research RAID 5 and "URE" (unrecoverable read error). Once you get past a certain disk size it is quite likely that the storage array will ruin itself when attempting to recover after loss of any disk. RAID 10 is considered far safer for your data.

In short, a very valuable product for me, 5 stars but make sure to do your research and carefully consider your RAID storage options before finalizing your decision.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure.

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Dubai Age: 25-34 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 extremely useful for my work February 29, 2016 the drive is excellent durable fast light and easy to carry around

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 4.0TB OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-drive SSD with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready JBOD Solution.

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Bowling Green, OH

Rating: 5/5 Very quiet and unobtrusive January 16, 2016 My new OWC ThunderBay 4 mini has been working perfectly. I've filled it with 4 400GB SSDs. It is absolutely quiet.

This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure.

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: Anonymous

Rating: 5/5 Does what it says on the tin August 3, 2015 The most efficient way for me to carry 4 2.5" drives. Thank you OWC

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure.

Verified Buyer Top 100 Contributor

Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Rockville, MD Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Superior to other enclosures I've tried July 31, 2015 Replaced a Promise RAID enclosure that never worked properly. This one is high quality construction. Has been problem free since I installed my 4 SSDs as RAID 10. And of course with thunderbolt 2 it is extra fast. Nice product. Highly recommended.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure.

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: Anonymous Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 4/5 Works perfectly with OS X RAID July 10, 2015 I bought the 4 TB ThunderBay to work with my Mac Pro (2013) and Thunderbolt 2. I set it up as a striped and mirrored using the standard OS X Disk Utility RAID settings. This ends up with a 2 TB mirrored drive. With Black Magic Disk Speed Test I get about 155 MB/s write and 185 MB/s read. Not too bad for spinning rust on 2.5" drives. For reference I have an older 480 GB OWC Mercury Electra SSD in a USB 3 external case that only gets a little better than that (180 MB/s write & 230 MB/s read).

The 4 1 TB 2.5" drives are temporary until the price of 1 TB SSD comes down in a year or so. The ThunderBay enclosure should be useful long after the drives are obsolete.

If anyone has the same bay with SoftRAID and a similar setup, I would be curious to know what your performance numbers are (Black Magic Disk Speed Test is free on the Mac App store.)

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 4.0TB OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-drive HDD with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready JBOD Solution.

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Los Angeles, CA Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Works great April 28, 2015 Easy to assemble, ordered SSD drives and popped them in, works flawlessly and is silent.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure.

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: Anonymous

Rating: 3/5 Super fast but noisy April 17, 2015 It's a super fast SSD RAID. The only drawback is the noises of fans (it's small fan so it has high-freq noises). Luckily you can use a long Thunderbolt cable to put the RAID far away from you. It would be nice if OWC can reduce the fan speed for SSD version. (HDD version is hotter)

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Hangzhou, China Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Very satisfied April 16, 2015 After comparing everything I could find in a reasonably compact Thunderbolt 2 drive array to connect to my Mac Pro I finally decided upon the ThunderBay 4 mini in a 4TB configuration. The unit is compact and well built. The fan is audible in a low noise environment, but not at all noticeable in an office.

I've currently opted for using Apple's built-in RAID facility and the drive is performing exactly as expected. Lightning fast and stable. I'm very satisfied with this purchase and would recommend it to anyone looking for a fast and compact DAS solution.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from 4.0TB OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-drive HDD with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready JBOD Solution.

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Cincinnati Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Does what they say March 15, 2015 It's not a complex product. You stick in SSD drives and it works. I was interested because it had a Thunderbolt 2 connection. I've had it for a month or so and had no issues with it. I would recommend it to anyone looking for an external RAID array on a Mac.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure.

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: Anonymous Location: SLC,UT Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Hobbiest Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Great Product March 11, 2015 This case is well made. I have four SSD,s in raid 0 with OS X installed and no problems. Black Magic test Read 1184 MB/s Write 1085 MB/s

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure.

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Napa Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 4/5 The enclosure is awesome January 12, 2015 but hard drives stink. I've been wanting an enclosure like this for years, so I jumped on it as soon as it was announced. I wanted a fast, quiet, RAID hard drive, and this is all three. I was expecting faster performance than I got, but that's the fault of the four 2TB drives inside. I'm getting about 500MB/s in RAID 0. Once the cost of SSDs decline, then I'll make the switch.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure.

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Tampa, FL Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 3-4 months

Rating: 5/5 Thunder bay Mini 4 - Outstanding Product January 3, 2015 Moved from a 2010 Mac Pro to a 2014 MacBook Pro. I delayed the moved because my Mac Pro was maxed out with 4 Disk Drives and I wasn't sure what to do migrating to the MBPro. I knew I could count on OWC and just about the time I was ready to move on the "Thunder Bay 4" the "Thunder Bay 4 mini" was introduced. I called tech support with questions on the mini and it seemed like what I was waiting for. I migrated two existing SSD's (One OWC) for the Mac Pro and bought two more SSD's from OWC to fill up the Thunder Bay mini 4. Mission accomplished!! As a bonus I have the option to boot from the Thunder Bay Mini vis a vie Thunderbolt2 should I choose(Contrary to what Mac Support said and it works, I tried it). The Thunder Bay Mini 4 is Fast, Quiet and Runs Cool.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure.

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Gold Coast, Australia Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Excellent drive enclosure December 21, 2014 I have been using the Thunderbay 4 mini for just under a month now and it works exactly as advertised.

One of the best features is the cooling fan which maintains my SSDs at a comfortable 29° C vs 45° C in Akitio Neutrino Thunder Duo which I previously used.

I would recommend this item to a friend! This review is from OWC ThunderBay 4 mini, four-bay drive enclosure with dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, RAID-ready Enclosure.

OWC 1.0TB ThunderBay 4 mini Mfr P/N: TB4MJBSSD01T OWC SKU: OWCTB4MJBSSD01T High-Performance 4-bay External Drive 3 Year OWC Limited Warranty

Reviews (17)

Sold Out

OWC ThunderBay 4 mini

1.0TB Portable 4-Bay External Drive

Includes

Gallery

Product Specifications

Chipset

Interfaces Supported

JBOD / RAID Support

Standard Mechanism

Release Candidate (RC) firmware set

240GB Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD Specifications:

Specifications

Physical

Reliability3

Performance

Power

Environmental (Operating)

Environmental (Non-Operating)

Acoustics

Port Configuration

Max Data Transfer Rate

Port/Interface Bootability

System Requirements

Software Included

Power Supply

External Case Dimensions

Enclosure Weight (no accessories)

Operating Environment:

Temperature

Relative Humidity

Shock

Vibration

Warranty

Software

Benchmarks

Reviews

Customer Ratings

Reliability³