OWC ThunderBlade external SSD offers 16TB of super-fast storage
Creative professionals working with 4K or 8K video, or anyone who just wants an enormous amount of portable storage, can turn to the OWC ThunderBlade. Starting Thursday, this SSD now offers up to a whopping 16TB in capacity, and can transfer data at 2800MB/s.
OWC also updated its Envoy Pro EX line with 4TB version. And the Accelsior 4M2 internal SSD now also offers up to 16TB of capacity.
At the heart of all these products is the new 4TB Aura P12 M.2 NVMe. This includes 3D NAND flash memory and security features including TCG Opal and TCG Pyrite.
The ThunderBlade includes dual Thunderbolt 3 ports, and can be connected with multiple drives with SoftRAID. With speeds up to 2800MB/s, OWC points about that a 1TB content transfer can be completed in under 4.5 minutes. It can hold almost an entire day — 22.7 hours — of 4K RAW footage, or almost a full month of GoPro 4K footage.
The 16TB version of the SSD costs $4,999. It’s available in smaller capacities too, down to a 1TB version for $729.