Hey there! Does anyone here have any experience with the OWC 8TB ThunderBlade External Thunderbolt 3 Solid-State Drive vs. G Tech 8TB SSD? I’m looking to possibly purchase, and there’s a $3K price difference. I’d be working off this and archiving to something bigger and slower.

WHO THE HELL WOULD BAY $5,000 FOR 8TB OF FAST STORAGE? That’s $625 per TB! That’s insane. Fast NVME storage should be in the $210/TB range for low end NVME like a Sabrent, and a bit more for Samsung. Look at what the Mac Sales Thunderblade is. It’s probably 4 2TB NVME sticks on some kinda RAID …

I just bought the 8TB thunderblade and will be trying it out later this week👍

Hell Grant, I was wondering how was your 8TB Thunderblade, are you happy with it? Is it fast enough for 4K things? Are you running in on RAID 0?

Yip! Raid Zero & thumbs up!:+1: I can playback uncached 4K Exr’s at 25fps I never really need any more than that [image] and here’s my sad old pegasus R4 for comparison😆 [image] Cheers! Grant

Hey Grant - are you still liking the thunderblade? is this the one you bought? OWC ThunderBlade were there any surprises on setup or was it fairly plug and play?

Yip love it! Will buy another next year Soft raid took me an hour or two to get familiar, but its really super easy

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ssweik March 8, 2021, 3:05am 3

Thanks for confirming my suspicions!

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