Comments on: OWC Thunderbay 4 mini Thunderbolt 2 Enclosure Review – 2TB SSD Storage at 1340 MB/s

By: man

man — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:08:00 +0000

Planning on upgrading from old MacPro running Crucial SSDs to Retina iMac. Will this TB Mini accept non-OWC drives in non-RAID config.

What happens when the TB cable is not attached. Will the drives power up and idle?

By: Les@TheSSDReview

Les@TheSSDReview — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:24:00 +0000

In reply to Dave Abrahams. I am sorry but we have not tested for that.

By: Dave Abrahams

Dave Abrahams — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 04:44:00 +0000

I am trying to find out whether this unit honors write barriers, which are critical to data security ( see this thread: https://markmail.org/thread/shrs46f6lixkqllw ). Without them, a sudden power outage or an unexpectedly pulled cable can easily make a RAID completely unrecoverable by mere mortals. Have you tested that?

By: Les@TheSSDReview

Les@TheSSDReview — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:50:00 +0000

In reply to Dean Dayton Rogers. Tx.

By: Dean Dayton Rogers

Dean Dayton Rogers — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:51:00 +0000

On the 4th sentence of the first paragraph (page1) it said “yet capable of speeds up to 1.4MB/s”, that doesnt sound right or did you mean 1.4GB/s ?