It gives us at Production Exert great pleasure to announce the winner of the OWC 8TB ThunderBay 4 mini RAID With SoftRAID Lite Worth £612 as Nathan Carlton of Bloomington, Minnesota, USA.

Nathan David Carlton writes music for television and film, specializing in orchestral hybrid custom cues that require a blend of live instruments or voices recorded in the studio with synthesized or sampled instruments from a computer. His music and sound design has been used on networks from MTV, HBO, History, E! and Bravo to Nickelodeon, Food Network and even BBC Radio 1, with vocal singles charting on European top 10 radio, remixed by Grammy Nominated producers and award-winning sound design accompanying dance and theatrical productions over the last two decades.

As an accomplished deep house producer, DJ and dance music record label owner, Nathan Carlton (ASCAP) aka Soundbed regularly combines original electronic sounds with organic, acoustic instruments to help tell stories using music that moves the heart. Recently Nathan began recording videos for Sample Library Review, the premier vlog and website for music producers looking for sampled instruments.

“I have been researching various hard drive enclosures and RAID setups for quite a while as I transition from a desktop to a MacBook Pro laptop rig. The OWC products have continually come up but I didn't want to fork over the money for them. Going into 2020 I am finding I need more disk space than ever due to video editing projects and huge sample instrument packages like Orchestral Tools' Junkie XL Brass. Also looking forward to daisy-chaining since those Thunderbolt ports get used fast. The speed is essential and the size is perfect, as I also need to be able to work in hotels while travelling. I already have two friends saying they love theirs, so I know it's going to be a great product. Thanks OWC and Production Expert!”

Throughout December we offered the opportunity for over 30 people to win a prize of your choice from an amazing bundle of prizes that we pulled together from our generous partners, worth around £30,000.

Each day, we took a closer look at each of the prizes in turn. Today we are looking at the OWC 8TB ThunderBay 4 mini RAID with SoftRAID Lite worth $680.

Win OWC 8TB ThunderBay 4 mini RAID With SoftRAID Lite

The team at Other World Computing (OWC), one of the world’s most respected providers of hard drives, SSDs as well as Mac & PC docking solutions are very proud to both announce and offer as a prize to the Production Expert community, their new ThunderBay 4 mini storage solution which is the latest in their ThunderBay line of external storage systems, available with either Thunderbolt 3 or Thunderbolt 2 connectivity. If you're looking for a high-speed working storage or backup solution, the new Thunderbay 4 MINI delivers speed and flexibility for the creative audio or video professional.

The Thunderbay 4 MINI features four bays for 2.5-inch drives and is available in pre-configured solutions up to 16.0TB. OWC is generously offering an 8TB solution in your choice of Thunderbolt 2 or 3. However, if you are not lucky enough to win and already have a stash of SSD’s their 0GB enclosure is ready out of the box for you to repurpose or maximize your choice of 2.5” SSDs and/or HDDs. Mixed drives can be used independently or combined as a RAID with the included SoftRAID setup and management software.

For creative pros or IT managers and remote/home office professionals seeking big RAID performance that's small enough to fit on a desk, in a rack, or on a DIT cart, your wish is now a reality. The ThunderBay 4 mini transforms SSDs and HDDs into the perfect storage solution to use as is or adapt as needed to breeze through workflows and backups all the way up to today’s highest resolution audio, video and photographic formats.

Professional RAID Performance And Reliability In A Compact Design

The ThunderBay 4 mini is small in stature but big on performance and flexibility as it is about the same length as a pencil and weighs only 3.1 pounds with 4 SSDs installed. The rugged heat-dissipating aluminium enclosure is available in two models. As a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure with two ports (Thunderbolt 2/Thunderbolt backwards compatible) for up to 1556MB/s of real-world tested performance or Thunderbolt 2 with two ports (Thunderbolt backwards compatible) for up to 1346MB/s speeds.

Bigger Faster Better

The ThunderBay 4 mini also allows you to daisy-chain up to five additional ThunderBay 4 mini solutions to create massive storage arrays. Merge them with the included SoftRAID application for even more flexibility, capacity, and capability. If maximum transfer speed is the goal, connect multiple ThunderBay 4 mini solutions to multiple Thunderbolt 3 or Thunderbolt 2 ports on a Mac or PC for exponential speed. Beyond just storage, users can also attach a 5K Thunderbolt display or two 4K displays to the ThunderBay 4 mini and enjoy the flexibility to expand their daisy-chain to meet any task at hand.

Features

• Maximize SSD or HDD potential – four 2.5-inch drive bays

• Thunderbolt 3 Version: Pro-grade, real-world-tested speeds – up to 1556MB/s with (2) Thunderbolt 3 ports (Thunderbolt 2/Thunderbolt backwards compatible)

• Thunderbolt 2 Version: Real-world tested speeds of up to 1346MB/s with (2) Thunderbolt 2 ports (Thunderbolt backward compatible)

• Flexibility – re-task existing drives or choose from pre-configured solutions

• Daisy-chain expansion – add up to 5 additional Thunderbolt devices

• Deployment ready – pre-configured solutions undergo rigorous multi-step performance certification

• Near silent operation – heat-dissipating aluminium with 32.5dB cooling fan

• Quick drive swaps – drives mount on sliding trays

• Plug and Play – no drivers needed and includes Thunderbolt 3/Thunderbolt 2 cable

• Robust software for creating, monitoring and managing advanced RAID sets

• Worry-free – up to 3-Year OWC Limited Warranty with 1-Year Level 1 data recovery

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