[35.07 lb] Im buying as soon as they become available a Mac Studio Ultra but I wanted to be ready with the storage. Today I still use a Mac Pro 11 years old with internal disks. It's a fast machine but after seeing what my Macbook Air can do with video compression I decided that is time to switch. My main concern was the noise, I do have an older SATA box from OWC that I use for backup but I shut it down when is not in use due to the noise. Well, this new Thunderbay 8 is just whispering. A very well designed product, the fan probably has variable speed and my WD HDD don't make too much noise even though they are enterprise specs. One of the RAID is 3 14TB in RAID zero configuration (soft ) and I get about 750/800 MB/s , faster than when I had them installed in my old Mac Pro since SATA there was just 3Gbps . Silent fast, not too expensive . Nothing beat this. Also, everything was plug & play. I just moved my HDD from my Mac Pro to this box and they appeared on my Mac Air when I plugged the TB cable in. My only complain is the black color, it's nice but why black? This should have been the same color like the Macs are. At least the mainstream silver. Second minor complain the cable in the box is very short. Buy a longer cable when you buy the box unless your connected device is really next to this box.

[64 TB] Only used this drive for one week having transferred all my files onto it. So far so good. Little noisy but is working fine
Customer service is excellent if you need to talk to someone even if it's a minor issue.

[Aluminum] This is a great storage value! So far the Software based RAID setup has performed very well. For new Apple Silicon users, there are a few hoops to jump through that I was unaware of. The disk would not mount initially, but after I reached out to OWC tech support, they gave me detailed instructions on how to get everything sorted out. But, just be aware of that if you are a Mac M1Pro/Max chip user. The only other gripe I've had is that the provided thunderbolt cable is very short, too short. It's only about 18 long.

[1 x 450 W] This is my third ThunderBay enclosure, and it's used as the fail-safe backup for all my files. With the Softraid software, it's the best solution I've found so far to store and maintain my many terabytes of photo & video data. The bonus is fairly quick phone and email support response from OWC. The TB8 units integrate particularly well with my Mac OS machines and operating system.

[35.07 lb] This is my first ever RAID setup and it's painful to think I waited so long to go this route (15+ years of using individual external HDDs and SSDs).

I loaded this thing with 8x 16TB IronWolf Pro drives and setup a RAID 5 (128TB = 112TB total storage with 1 drive for redundancy/recovery).

The speeds I am getting with this thing average 750-800MB/s write and 1,300-1,400MB/s read. Note that you MUST use 8 total drives to achieve higher speeds like this, I see a lot of people complaining they are getting slow speeds, but they are usually using only 4 or so drives, or 5,400RPM drives.

I can easily playback 6K R3D files from my Red Komodo as well as all filetypes, resolutions and frame rates from my Sony FX3.

Definitely happy with this purchase and would recommend to any video editors who need speed, but also care about protecting their data!

[35.07 lb] Used this on a recent DIT job and I needed the speed and storage. I found that it's peak write/read speed using Silverstack was about 1.2GB/s Read and 1.5GB/s write. No problems recreating the volume into a RAID 0 using SoftRAID. I didn't test it at it's default setting in RAID 5. I'm using a MacBook Pro M1 Max and have offloaded 14TB over the last 2 days with no problems.

[64 TB] Excellent storage solution for any application. Completely configurable however you want and easy to use with the Soft Raid software that comes with it. Operates as a hub as well with Display Port 1.4 fictionality.

[35.07 lb] Is working well so far

[64 TB] Everything is good

[35.07 lb] Stop looking, you found it. It's perfect: