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It's compatible out of the box with a wide ... due largely to ruggedization and RAID design. The LaCie 2big RAID external hard drive, aimed squarely at videographers, photographers, and other ...

or a multi-drive, platter-based desktop DAS that is set up in a RAID array. For ordinary external hard drives, Thunderbolt is very much the exception, not the rule. It tends to show up mainly in ...

A hard drive or solid state drive (SSD) that is part of a RAID configuration for redundancy or speed. See RAID. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

OWC ThunderBlade X12 offers up to 96TB super-fast storage via a dozen 8TB SSDs It can reach up to 6.5GBps according to OWC in RAID-0 ... with two Thunderbolt-compatible USB-C ports, and offers ...