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TerraMaster has launched the professional-grade D8 Thunderbolt 3 External Hard Drive Enclosure now with 8-bay RAID-storage. Among the advantages of the storage addressed to professionals creating content, the manufacturer attributes a large volume and high data transfer speed – up to 1600 MB/s.
The external hard drive cage has eight drive bays of 3.5 or 2.5 inches with the SATA interface, the total volume of which can be up to 128 TB. Thunderbolt 3 interface provides high read and write speeds. Of course, speed depends on drives installed and array configuration.
With two Thunderbolt 3 ports, you can build storage into a chain of up to five more compatible devices. In particular, you can daisy chain up to two 4K monitors or one 5K monitor. With a Thunderbolt interface (40 Gbps) and a hardware RAID controller, the D8 Thunderbolt 3 can operate at transfer speeds of 1200 MB/s under a 7200 RPM high-speed hard disk and RAID 0 array mode. Under RAID 5, the device can achieve a speed of 1100 MB/s.
For better cooling, the external hard drive enclosure is made of aluminum alloy, and there are two 90mm fans on the back wall. The fans can be turned on at maximum speed, select automatic mode when the speed depends on the temperature or turned off.
Users can transfer several hours of footage from a Blackmagic device to Adobe Premiere Pro. In turn, with uncompressed HD 10-bit and 12-bit video, users can edit the ProRes 422 (HQ), ProRes 4444 XQ, and other data streams. Thumbnails and preview rendering are significantly more responsive when using large items with numerous high-definition clips.
TerraMaster D8 Thunderbolt 3 price and availability
TerraMaster D8 Thunderbolt 3 External Hard Drive Enclosure has been priced at $1,599.99 without drives and it can be purchased on Amazon.com and Bhphotovideo.com websites.
Recently, TerraMaster has expanded its NAS catalog with the launch of the F4-422 Network Attached Storage, which has a 10GbE port as its key feature, two 10 gigabit ethernet ports, and four 6 TB Seagate IronWolf HDDs in a RAID 0 array allows read and write speeds of up to 650 and 670 MB/s, respectively.
