At CES 2024, OWC announced the ThunderBlade X8, improving upon the current ThunderBlade, a 4-Bay Thunderbolt™ 3 RAID array. Designed for a wide range of users, including DITs, creative professionals, and editors, the ThunderBlade X8 brings speed, capacity, and portable RAID storage to your workflow.
It offers dual Thunderbolt™ 3 connections and eight NVMe M.2 2242 drive bays, each of which supports a 4TB SSD for up to 32TB of storage when configured as a RAID 0. RAID 0 also supports read speeds of 2949 MB/s and write speeds of 2826 MB/s, but the ThunderBlade X8 may also be configured as RAID 1, 4, 5, and 1+0, all of which provide performance, data redundancy, or a combination of both. When configured as a RAID 5, the ThunderBlade X8 drives read speeds of 2565 MB/s and write speeds of 2464 MB/s.
When compared to the ThunderBlade, the ThunderBlade X8 offers a higher usable capacity in RAID 4 or 5. It also offers higher performance in RAID 4 and 5 configurations with Apple Silicon M1 and later, including Pro, Max, and Ultra machines. It also features an improved power connector and a repositioned LED light to help reduce/eliminate on-set light distractions.
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