Nothing with a mini-SAS (SFF-8087 or SFFSFF-8644) to 4xSAS/SATA support? This makes those of use with SAS HBAs and expanders for high-performance and proper SMART reporting quite sad :(
You're in error about the OWC ThunderBay 4's included RAID software. There is a software bundle (of debatable worth), but the $419 bare enclosure (delivered without drives) does NOT include any RAID software. OWC does include that proprietary software with their models that include drives, but, of course, you're then paying a stiff premium for those drives. The software they include with them costs approximately $180 retail, however, so it may not be a bad deal if one needs RAID and SMART monitoring, which are not features of the RAID software baked into OS X's Disk Utility's RAID. (I don't know enough about this to comment on the speed of these two software-RAID solutions.)
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DanNeely - Sunday, March 1, 2015 - link
"The 5-bay unit comes with a 80 mm cooling fan, while the 8-bay unit has a 120 mm cooling fan. There is no hardware RAID support."Are you sure about this, it looks like the 5bay model has a 120mm fan too.
ganeshts - Sunday, March 1, 2015 - link
Just going by whatever is in the 'Technical Specifications' tab of each of those product pages... Might get one of them in for review, let us see.ZeDestructor - Sunday, March 1, 2015 - link
Nothing with a mini-SAS (SFF-8087 or SFFSFF-8644) to 4xSAS/SATA support? This makes those of use with SAS HBAs and expanders for high-performance and proper SMART reporting quite sad :(milleron - Monday, March 2, 2015 - link
You're in error about the OWC ThunderBay 4's included RAID software. There is a software bundle (of debatable worth), but the $419 bare enclosure (delivered without drives) does NOT include any RAID software. OWC does include that proprietary software with their models that include drives, but, of course, you're then paying a stiff premium for those drives. The software they include with them costs approximately $180 retail, however, so it may not be a bad deal if one needs RAID and SMART monitoring, which are not features of the RAID software baked into OS X's Disk Utility's RAID. (I don't know enough about this to comment on the speed of these two software-RAID solutions.)