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OWC ThunderBay Mini 4

chipandegg

chipandegg

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I’ve just got a Mac Studio and am wondering about external storage. Anybody use the Thunder Bay mini 4, Thunderbolt 3 version if so would you recommend it or not?

As I’ve used a Mac Pro for so long I like the idea of having an enclosure of internal 2.5 SSDs as it keeps everything tidy and out of the way not having rely on external drives. Plus I can have the same configuration of drives as my Mac Pro.

I was also looking at NVMe externals and enclosures, these would be for sample libraries to use with Logic Pro. They would load the library faster but I would need 4TBs worth, the price goes right up here so looking to store them on a 2.5 enclosure like the mini 4.
 
I know this an older question... as I also have the same question about the same product and was wondering if anyone has bought one yet or if the OP bought one? I just ordered a Studio and I too am coming from the MacPro world where everything was contained.
 
I have had two of these for several years. My earlier version is Thunderbolt 2 so I use an Apple adapter for connecting to my Mac Studio. Nice form factor and completely reliable. In addition to a recently new 4TB SSD, I used SoftRAID to create a 4TB and a 500GB RAID0 SSD volumes.
 
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Shazaam! said:
I have had two of these for several years. My earlier version is Thunderbolt 2 so I use an Apple adapter for connecting to my Mac Studio. Nice form factor and completely reliable. In addition to a recently new 4TB SSD, I used SoftRAID to create a 4TB and a 500GB RAID0 SSD volumes.
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Thank you... do you use these to work off of, meaning the project can reside on one of these while you work, or are they used for just storage purposes?
 
Shazaam! said:
A little of both. Projects that need access to fast storage I run from the 2TB internal Apple SSD.
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Gotcha... I have the 1tb version coming... so I am looking for something along the lines of a scratch disk and also something that I can keep my projects on that I am working on, versus moving back and forth if you will. Might have to modify how I work!

Thanks again
 
Hi, I'm running the OWC thunderbay 4 mini with four 2TB Sandisk SSDs in a RAID 1+0 configuration. It is attached to Mac Studio Ultra and running perfect. To me it is really fast!!! The only disadvantage is the fan. It is running constantly and quite noisy if nothing else is spinning in the room. Therefore I disconnected the.
 
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