{"product_id":"owc-thunderblade-x8-thunderbolt-40gb-s-nvme-raid-ssd-external-storage-solution-with-softraid","title":"OWC ThunderBlade X8 Thunderbolt (40Gb\/s) NVMe RAID SSD External Storage Solution with SoftRAID","description":"\u003ch2\u003eOWC ThunderBlade X8 Thunderbolt (40Gb\/s) NVMe RAID SSD External Storage Solution with SoftRAID\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe OWC ThunderBlade X8 is a professional-grade external storage solution designed for the most demanding workflows in film, broadcast, and IT. This eight-bay enclosure is populated with high-performance OWC Aura Pro NVMe M.2 SSDs, delivering blistering speeds and massive capacity in a compact, fanless design. With benchmarked read speeds up to 2921MB\/s and write speeds up to 2814MB\/s, the ThunderBlade X8 handles multi-stream 4K\/8K video, complex audio sessions, and other data-intensive tasks with ease. It connects to Mac and Windows systems via a 40Gb\/s Thunderbolt port and includes a second Thunderbolt port for daisy-chaining additional devices or connecting up to a 5K display. The included SoftRAID software provides robust RAID management, allowing users to configure the drives for maximum performance (RAID 0), redundancy (RAID 1, 5), or a combination of both (RAID 4, 10). 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