Who’s it for: Videographers, photographers, and creative professionals with robust storage needs. Why you should buy this: The OWC ThunderBay 4 can accommodate four drives, but the Thunderbolt connection allows up to six ThunderBay 4 enclosures to be daisy-chained together to house a total of 24 SSDs or HDDs! However, we must point out that the process is a tad more involved than the standard PC build's method - and it's also higher-priced. Each of these valuable features makes it an excellent option for those with a modestly-sized office or a bustling studio. Installation is simple and almost effortless, all because of a quick-slot device at the Mediasonic’s back, with synchronization between your PC and the enclosure, ensuring that the drives never operate longer than needed. This helps to ensure that it only starts when it’s essential to cool the drives down if they start to get too hot. Moreover, it comes with an active cooling fan with SMART temperature tracking.

It also features complete support for UASP for an accelerated transfer between the SATA and USB mediums. Both USB-C and USB-A 3.1 will operate well with this enclosure, making it great for a wide selection of drives. It also includes a built-in Raid controller that provides six configuration variations. This model can support a maximum of four 3.5-inch SATA drives, up to 16TB per drive, or 2.5-inch SSDs up to 12TB per drive. Whenever that’s the case, it makes sense to get one large external drive for all of them. You might run into a situation where you're working with more than one hard drive that you’d like to put into external drives. Who’s it for: Office users and creative professionals needing a robust data archiving solution.

Why you should buy this: The Mediasonic Raid 4-bay is a network drive that supports a maximum of four drives for all your storage needs.

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