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I was just wondering when you were going to upload a video, you don’t
disappoint! Merry Christmas 9to5!
Did you really upload a video on Christmas Day? I’m not watching on point
of Christmas Day principle.
Ok I’ll watch.
why is there a Handel on it it makes it look soon much worse
Epic videom
One NVMe SSD is faster than this 4xRaid0 which is quite underperforming
IMHO. I would have expected about 1,5-2 Gbytes/s.
raid doesn’t scale too well. Also SATA has way slower access times. Doing
multiple things at the same time on this raid will drastically reduce
performance. My Windows PC has a raid0 with 2 SSD’s and in benchmarks I
reach 1Gbyte/s but during real world… zipping a lot of files, loading a
game (not sequential)… I hover around 20 – 100 mbyte/s with 100% drive
load.
+ThunderbyteNet as mentioned in the article the limitation is in the sata
controller.
The next generation USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 external SSDs will offer better
performance, better portability and less risk of data loss (RAID 0). And
also no fans.
9to5Mac thanks for the answer. I didn’t read the article (this time). I
think I could appreciate a Raid 10 or 5 on the x4 Box rather than the
limited Raid0 Performance. That way it is redundant and might not be much
slower (at least with Raid 10, the software Raid5 might have some writing
trouble).
Why would you want RAID 0 over 1? RAID 0 is impossible to recover; speed is
irrelevant if data is lost! Even RAID 5 recovery can be problematic in my
experience; RAID 1 is almost fault-proof (albeit not as fast as 0 or 5).
Marty Turner there are many instances when you need the highest speed
possible and you have the data already safe elsewhere
+Marty Turner because speed is important. I use RAID 0 all the time. As
long as you have backups it’s fine.
I always get scared that those enclosures have hardware raid. I have no
data on it but basic logic leads me to believe that they’d make the drives
much more unreliable since for raid0 there is no battery backup so an
uneven state will make them inaccessible and for raid1 there are no
checksums to tell which drive has actual corrupt data.
I’d rather get myself a nice NAS… Not these cheap and slow things with a
custom os… but a little server that supports freeNAS like the HP ProLiant
or the FreeNAS Mini. Yes, they are more expensive and require knowledge
about the subject but at least they have actual data integrity benefits
compared to anything these drive enclosures can do.
I agree. These cheap, simple controllers are not the best. I’d rather have
a SW RAID in this case. I once lost a complete disk in a similar enclosure
and the controller wasn’t even set to RAID, just JBOD. It still managed to
corrupt one disk entirely.
On my server I use a proper RAID controller I trust.
if you turn on that Quad into a USB C computer like the 12″ MacBook, what
happens?
boring. let me know when they make it in Rose Goad.
Very nicely done video! Nice how you also showed the installation process.
The Duo install process is great!
Does it charge macbooks? I guess with that much money it would be worth to
get 2TB in Macbook config, won’t it? It would take no space and much
faster.
The audio is really bad on this video…
Review for m.2 enclosure please. I think that enclosure can take the
thunderbolt 3 to the fullest.
Great vid. I have the Quad thunderbolt 2 drive enclosure on my iMac 5k but
now i’m most likely to get two more Thunderbolt 3 enclosures now i have a
new 15″ MacBook Pro. For me speed is very important since 4k is almost
out-of-date already. 8k video is the next big thing and for that speed is a
necessity ! However the speed for me is too slow, theoretically you should
be able to get at least speeds of at least 3-4Gbps especially since
BlackMagic speed test shows the internal speeds of my Laptop of 2000mbps
Read and 1600mbps Write. I would have to Raid 2 units together to get any
decent performance matching my new laptop!
Do egpu for MBP 2016 !