OWC updated its flagship four-bay RAID enclosure on November 10, adding Thunderbolt 5 connectivity and expanding maximum capacity up to 128TB.
According to details reported by Newsshooter, the ThunderBay 4 with Thunderbolt 5 is available for pre-order now and begins shipping next week. Pricing starts at $549.99 for the diskless enclosure, jumping to $1,499 for 8TB of storage and topping out at $9,479.99 for the enterprise 128TB configuration.
While spinning rust hard drives can never saturate Thunderbolt 5's massive 80Gbps bidirectional bandwidth on their own, the interface upgrade gives multi-stream 8K video editors and multi-terabyte photo catalog archives the headroom to daisy-chain high-refresh studio displays and high-speed NVMe scratch drives through a single workstation port without throttling bus performance.