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OWC Envoy Pro Elektron
Ultra-high performance across entire capacity, outperforms the competition.
Tiny, bus-powered, rugged, compact!
Ultra-high performance across entire capacity, outperforms the competition.
Tiny, bus-powered, rugged, compact!
√ No more slow and noisy hard drives!
Nehalem Cores vs. Clock Speed: Photoshop Benchmarks
These are diglloyd benchmarks testing the speed of Photoshop on various jobs of various sizes.
Analysis
diglloydSpeed1 takes 8% longer with the 8-core. Both machines has 24GB.
diglloydMedium takes 14% longer with the 8-core. Both machines has 24GB.
diglloydHuge is a “best possible”: the huge advantage of the 8-core is due to having 64GB of memory, versus 32GB for the quad-core. It shows clearly that for really huge jobs, the 8 core machine is far preferable, simply because up to 64GB of memory can be installed.

Time in seconds, lower is faster.
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OWC ThunderBay 4
High capacity, high-performance fault-tolerant storage for photography and video.
Non-RAID or RAID-0/1/4/5/10.
Capacities up to 64 Terabytes!
High capacity, high-performance fault-tolerant storage for photography and video.
Non-RAID or RAID-0/1/4/5/10.
Capacities up to 64 Terabytes!
Hard drives or SSD.
OWC Accelsior 4M2 PCIe SSD
6000 MB/sec!
Mac or PC.
Ideal for Lightroom, Photoshop, video.
Capacity up to 16TB!
6000 MB/sec!
Mac or PC.
Ideal for Lightroom, Photoshop, video.
Capacity up to 16TB!
√ No more slow and noisy hard drives!
OWC ThunderBay FLEX 8
8-bay Thunderbolt 3
2.5 or 3.5 inch hard drives, NVMe SSD, USB-C, USB-A, DisplayPort 1.4, SD slot, PCIe slot, 500W power supply.
Non-RAID or RAID-0/1/4/5/10.
Capacities up to 128 Terabytes!
8-bay Thunderbolt 3
2.5 or 3.5 inch hard drives, NVMe SSD, USB-C, USB-A, DisplayPort 1.4, SD slot, PCIe slot, 500W power supply.
Non-RAID or RAID-0/1/4/5/10.
Capacities up to 128 Terabytes!
Hard drives or SSD.
OWC ThunderBay 8
Eight-bay Thunderbolt 3 high-performance storage for photo and video.
Hard drives or SSDs.
Non-RAID or RAID-0/1/4/5/10.
Capacities up to 128 Terabytes!
Eight-bay Thunderbolt 3 high-performance storage for photo and video.
Hard drives or SSDs.
Non-RAID or RAID-0/1/4/5/10.
Capacities up to 128 Terabytes!
Hard drives or SSD.
OWC Envoy Pro EX SSD
Blazingly fast Thunderbolt 3 SSD!
Up to 4TB capacity, USB-C compatible.
USB-C model also available
Blazingly fast Thunderbolt 3 SSD!
Up to 4TB capacity, USB-C compatible.
USB-C model also available
Great for travel or for desktop!
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Datacolor SpyderCHECKR Color Chart and Calibration Tool for Digital Cameras
$139 $89
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Datacolor SpyderCHECKR Color Chart and Calibration Tool for Digital Cameras
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