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OWC Thunderbay 6 vs OWC Thunderbay 4: What If 5 Drives Are Used for RAID-5?

2019-01-24 • SEND FEEDBACK |

Related: hard drive, Other World Computing, OWC Thunderbay, OWC ThunderBay 4, OWC ThunderBay 6, RAID, RAID-5, weather events

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The OWC Thunderbay 4 has greater total bandwidth than the OWC Thunderbay 6, but the Thunderbay 4 houses only four drives.

Since hard drives slow down as they fill up, what if just one additional drive is used (five drives total) in the Thunderbay 6?

OWC Thunderbay 6 vs OWC Thunderbay 4: RAID-5 performance 4/5/6 drives

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