A compact Thunderbolt 2 DAS disk drive with four schijflades which is also RAID 5 supported. Because this drive uses a relatively cheap Toshiba 3.5-inch hard drives, could this product relatively cheap in the market. A similar 20TB DAS disk drive is at similar brands to many hundreds of euros more expensive!
Pros
- Two Thunderbolt 2 ports
- RAID 5 setting
- Compact and solidly built
- Also supports SATA 3 SSDS
- Drives easy to replace
- Five-year warranty
- High disk speeds up, also in RAID 5
Cons
- Supplied as standard with Tochiba hard disks
- Only support for Macintosh with Thunderbolt
- No USB-C connector
Final conclusion
Score: 5Per criterion
Mobility
Score: 5
This Thunderbolt 2 Direct Attached Storage disk drive from CalDigit is very compact and solidly built and exudes this durability and luxury. Because this disk drive four 3.5-inch disk drives exist, you can you this DIRECT-drive configuration in RAID 5, which is a good balance between speed and safety. Because CalDigit makes use of relatively cheap 5TB Tochiba (type no: MD04ACA500) hard disks, this model is relatively cheap in the market. Similar four disks DAS-drives with the same RAID capabilities in comparable brands are much more expensive. In addition, these models are often much larger and more churlish built. I should mention that these brands use better hard drives that are specialized for use in DAS and NAS systems. Fortunately, you can this problem very easily overcome with a RAID 5 calibration so that any failed disk drive, you data is not lost. In addition, you can easily do this hard drives, remove and replace so that I in the future the system still can not see the great professional DAS/NAS hard drives. In fact, the CalDigit T4 is supported, even SATA 3 SSDS! If these disks in the future to become cheaper can I get my DAS also of this bloedsnelle SSDS. In short, with the CalDigit T4 you will have a very future proof system, because the disk drive uses the ultra fast Thunderbolt 2 interface.
Used in combination with:
- Apple Mac Pro (late 2013) 3.5 GHz 6-Core
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