Just screw the spare drives into the spare carriers, and swap at will (unmount drives and power down the unit before swapping). Because OWC sells additional drive carriers, it is possible to use the Thunderbay 6 to swap drives-not tools needed. Additional drives, drive removalĭrives are mounted in drive carriers that are released without tools with a thumbscrew mechanism. Other examples include six 14TB single volumes, or three 14TB RAID-1 mirror volumes or 1 or more RAID-5 volumes using 4 drives along with two single-drive volumes-the possibilities are expansive. For example, in an 84TB Thunderbay 6, it is possible to configure six 14TB RAID-0 volumes or six 10TB RAID-5 volumes. Partitioning can be done whether using RAID is used or not. While this suit some users looking for huge large storage device, some users might opt for more than one volume, or to not use RAID at all. OWC ships the RAID edition as a single large volume (e.g., 70TB for an 84TB Thunderbay 6). The JBOD approach is flexible in that it allows RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID 1+0 and RAID-4 or RAID-5 or six independent drives or any combination of these. * JBOD = Just a Bunch Of Disks, meaning each drive is seen independently. The Thunderbay is a JBOD* solution (not a hardware RAID): the system sees all six drives as separate drives and thus it can be utilized that way using Apple’s Disk Utility or SoftRAID.
OWC supplies a one-meter Thunderbolt cable with the Thunderbay. The OWC Thunderbay 6 houses six hard drives or SSDs of either 3.5" or 2.5" form factor.
Available in RAID edition (includes SoftRAID XT) or standard edition.
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