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- Real Name: Neil Parfitt
Hi First time poster,
So - I'm looking at this multi-dock rack.. and technical and marketing seem to be muddled.
Right on BM's site:
"Extreme Thunderbolt™ Speed
Transfer high quality video
at a blazing 20 Gb/s Data transfer Speed"
That's the speed of the bus, and NOWHERE close to the speeds available because of the SATAII chips being used... even in RAID!
"MultiDock features a completely independent SATA 3 disk interface chip per disk slot so you never get slowdowns because of SATA bandwidth issues."
.. but that contradicts using SATA6 drives... as it's already technically crippled by 1/2! Is this using independent SATA III chips or SATA 3G chips... which is it??
If it's only 3G chips, why has this thing not been updated with SATA6 controller chips per drive - tech that was available years before the release of this product? Thunderbolt II is more than capability of handling full SATA III / 6G rates to each drive. This thing is still listing at over $600 dollars... where an OWC 4 bay or AKiTiO Thunder2 Quad gives way more data transfer speeds for the same money.
I LOVE the aesthetic of this multidock rack, but performance is puzzling. Especially, when I can get a TB2 to PCIe chassis with a 4 port SATA6 card, 4 external SATA III/6G bays for a comparable price foffering double the performance PER drive.
So I'd love to know the ACTUAL lowdown on this thing... what are you getting per drive .. i.e.: Samsung EVO in a JBOD situation ...
Thanks!
So - I'm looking at this multi-dock rack.. and technical and marketing seem to be muddled.
Right on BM's site:
"Extreme Thunderbolt™ Speed
Transfer high quality video
at a blazing 20 Gb/s Data transfer Speed"
That's the speed of the bus, and NOWHERE close to the speeds available because of the SATAII chips being used... even in RAID!
"MultiDock features a completely independent SATA 3 disk interface chip per disk slot so you never get slowdowns because of SATA bandwidth issues."
.. but that contradicts using SATA6 drives... as it's already technically crippled by 1/2! Is this using independent SATA III chips or SATA 3G chips... which is it??
If it's only 3G chips, why has this thing not been updated with SATA6 controller chips per drive - tech that was available years before the release of this product? Thunderbolt II is more than capability of handling full SATA III / 6G rates to each drive. This thing is still listing at over $600 dollars... where an OWC 4 bay or AKiTiO Thunder2 Quad gives way more data transfer speeds for the same money.
I LOVE the aesthetic of this multidock rack, but performance is puzzling. Especially, when I can get a TB2 to PCIe chassis with a 4 port SATA6 card, 4 external SATA III/6G bays for a comparable price foffering double the performance PER drive.
So I'd love to know the ACTUAL lowdown on this thing... what are you getting per drive .. i.e.: Samsung EVO in a JBOD situation ...
Thanks!