Streamline your professional workflow with the versatile OWC ThunderBay Flex 8 8-Bay Thunderbolt 3 RAID 5 Enclosure, which includes two 40 Gb/s Thunderbolt 3 ports to connect to your computer and daisy chain compatible devices such as additional storage drives and displays. This powerful enclosure supports up to eight 3.5" and 2.5" SATA drives, or a combination with up to four U.2 NVMe solid-state drives for exceptionally fast performance. Installed drives can be put into RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 4, 5, or JBOD configuration using the software-based controller, with transfer speeds reaching up to 2750 MB/s. A SATA drive controller is pre-installed in the PCIe 3.0 x16 slot, and you may swap it out for expansions such as network adapters, capture cards, M.2 SSD storage adapters, SAS drive controllers, and hardware RAID controllers. Please note that the ThunderBay Flex 8 does not support dedicated GPUs.
Other features include a USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 port and two USB-A ports, which can transfer up to 10 Gb/s with compatible devices. The front panel has integrated SD and CFexpress card readers that allow you to quickly transfer video footage, photos, and other files to the installed drives. For added convenience, there is also a DisplayPort 1.4 output that supports 8K displays, so you can quickly view your work in high detail. The ThunderBay Flex 8 works with macOS 10.15 or later systems.