Digital storage is always an issue, with any production needing it, but more often than not finding themselves not having enough. So we stopped by to speak with the best in the biz, OWC, to learn more about their numerous storage solutions, recently expanded with their acquisition of Thunderbolt 3 storage master, Akitio.
ThunderBlade – $699 – $2,999
The 1TB ThunderBlade V4 External SSD from OWC is a rugged and portable storage drive designed for high-speed performance. Thanks to its M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 solid-state drive, it has read and write speeds of up to 2800 MB/s and 2450 MB/s respectively. Moreover, with dual Thunderbolt 3 connectivity, you’ll have a convenient, reversible connectors as well as daisy-chain support for up to six Thunderbolt 3 devices. Included with the drive is a custom-fit ballistic hard-shell case for you to carry it around in.
OWC’s extreme performance ThunderBlade might just be the ultimate working drive for media professionals. In terms of pure transfer speed, ThunderBlade is at the absolute cutting edge of possibility.
In a fast-paced, professional environment, time is money and performance is everything. The success of your project depends on quick data processing, and demands performance and efficiency working with uncompressed, high-bandwidth content streams. ThunderBlade delivers the performance to match – capable of unbelievable transfer speeds up to 2800MB/s read & 2450MB/s write. And with SoftRAID, two ThunderBlades can reach dizzying heights up to 3800MB/s.
Designed to be rugged and dependable as well as blazing fast, ThunderBlade is equally at home on the road, on set or in the edit suite. It’s compact and tough enough to withstand even the roughest treatment in between locations, and it comes complete with its own ballistic hard-shell case for even greater protection. And with two Thunderbolt 3 ports, ThunderBlade fits your workflow daisy-chain perfectly.
OWC Mercury Pro/Akitio Thunder3 RAID Station – $299
The second Thunderbolt 3 port on the Thunder3 RAID Station operates the same as a Thunderbolt 3 computer port by supporting Thunderbolt 3 (up to 5 daisy chained), USB 3.1 (10 Gbps), and DisplayPort devices.
Mercury Helios 3 – $199.75
Leveraging extreme performance Thunderbolt 3 and PCIe 3.0 technologies, Mercury Helios 3 delivers nearly unlimited expansion potential to your Mac. At up to 40Gb/s transfer speed, the sky is the limit with the flexibility to completely customize the capabilities of almost any workflow or workstation.
Two Thunderbolt 3 ports means Mercury Helios supports up to five additional daisy-chained Thunderbolt peripherals including power delivery.
Mercury Helios 3 also features an additional mini DisplayPort to add additional UHD or HD displays and an included Thunderbolt 3 cable.
Mercury Helios is fast and flexible with phenomenal throughput up to 40Gb/s. The perfectly simple solution to add high-performance PCIe cards made for video production, transcoding, audio processing, data storage and much more.
The new Mercury Helios 3S will be available in August/September 2019 for $299.
For more on all of these products and more, be sure to visit https://www.OWC.com
