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The Flex 8 has built-in card readers plus USB-C/USB 3.2 ports. An additional 15w Thunderbolt3 port for powering lower watt peripherals, keeping them from monopolizing the 85w port.An 85w powered Thunderbolt3 port – capable of connecting additional peripherals or charging a laptop.A built-in high-speed card reader for SD and CFexpress cards.A multi-port dock, adding USB 3.1 and USB-C ports to the front of the unit.In addition to the eight drive slots, the Flex 8 includes: What makes the Flex 8 different is that it’s more than just a drive chassis. It contains eight drive bays and is built for high-speed local storage on a Thunderbolt capable Mac or PC. The ThunderBay Flex 8 is, at its core, a direct-attached Thunderbolt-3 RAID chassis (click through for current pricing and its product page). In this review, you learn the hardware options the Flex 8 offers and then you see the results of its real-world performance and how I am utilizing it in my suite. (click to enlarge all images in this article) OWC’s ThunderBay Flex 8 is an innovative, customizable Thunderbolt3 expansion chassis. OWC provided Mixing Light and me, Joey D’Anna, a Flex 8 populated with drives for the purposes of review, testing, and writing this article. I wanted to see how I can use it in my workflow as a colorist and figure out other use cases for our business.įCC Disclosure: Mixing Light is an affiliate of OWC and affiliate links appear throughout this article (which help support Mixing Light, at no cost to our members). When OWC reached out to Mixing Light to review their new ThunderBay Flex 8 – I was excited to try to push it to its limits. I love new equipment and coming up with ways of working faster. It’s no secret, I’m a gear-head when it comes to post production, computers, and workflow. Tutorials / Review – The OWC ThunderBay Flex 8 Workflow Supercharger OWC’s ThunderBay Flex 8 – What is it and who’s it good for?
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