OWC / Other World Computing Express 4M2 4-Slot M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure
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Transfer speed is limited when not in RAID 0
I thought the throughput of this thing maxed out at 2800mB/s. But that is ONLY when you put ALL 4 ssd's in RAID 0. I obviously didn't know and I think the description should clearly state that you use it as JBOD the read speeds are 750MB/s and the write speeds are 450MB/s even though my ssd's are rated at 2000MB/s read and 1500MB/s write. I am also using it with TB3--TB2 adapter on my mac pro 2013. Other than that, all is working fine. It is a nice small unit.
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Great RAID
Purchased to help with Offload and transcode speeds when working with slower client drives for back up. Loaded up with 4 of the intel 660p nvme M.2 2tb sticks. In RAID 0 config getting sustained read/write around 2400 MBps over thunderbolt 3 on 2018 MacBook Pro and using Apples thunderbolt 2 to thunderbolt 3 adapter getting around 1300 MBps on 2013 Mac Pro 6,1 (The drive maxes out the tb2 lane) over all very happy with the performance for transco... Show More
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Great way to get internal SSD speeds externally
So the trick with this unit is that your speeds increase with RAID 0 the more slots you fill. With a single 512GB SSD, I got 671MB/s write and 781MB/s read. Not bad, but certainly not in the 2,500MB/s range that I get with my Macbookss internal SSD. But, when I filled all four slots with 512GB SSDs, I got 2,024MB/s write and 2,470 read speeds which is very close to my internal SSD. One thing not mentioned, if your computer has TWO Thunderbolt b... Show More
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FAST!!!
Installed (4) 2TB Samsung 970s in the drive. Downloaded the free Softraid XT Lite app and created an 8TB Raid-0 Drive. Its super-fast, getting 2,200-2,500MB/s transfer rates consistently. That said, each SSD blade is rated for 2,500-3,500MB/s, so its slightly disappointing not to get true Raid-0 performance. (In theory, at least, one could approach 9,000-10,000MB/s) The fan is not noisy, but definitely audible. If you like or need silence (ie. so... Show More
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Forward-looking product, high quality, works very well.
Theres really not much out there to compete with this at the moment. While a fast single NVMe drive might come close to saturating the Thunderbolt 3 bus (and two certainly will), having four slots makes it possible to buy lower-capacity drives to reach terabytes of ultra-fast solid-state storage for a comparative song compared to, for instance, Apples prices to upgrade to comparable capacities. Ive always been a big fan of OWCs Thunderbay Mini, ... Show More
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