OWC has announced a series of new solid-state drive – OWC ThunderBlade SSD. This external OWC ThunderBlade Gen 2 SSD comes in large storage size with fast transfer speed. Its extreme performance would be the ultimate working drive for media professionals.
OWC Launches a New ThunderBlade Gen 2 SSD with High Performance
OWC has released a lot of storage device, including solid-state drive, USB drive and so on. For example, it launched the Envoy Pro Mini External USB drive in the past. And now, OWC is planning to launch a series of new solid-state drives – OWC ThunderBlade SSD. This series of OWC ThunderBlade SSD comes in large hard drive capacity, ranging from 1TB to 8TB. With so large storage size, users can cave plenty of files. In addition, if it is not enough, you can add daisy-chain up to six ThunderBlades for more storage size which even can reach up to 48TB.
And for more specifications of this OWC ThunderBlade Gen 2 SSD, we will list in the following parts. You can go on your reading.

The OWC ThunderBlade SSD is designed to be rugged and dependable as well as blazing fast. ThunderBlade is equally at home on the road, on set or in the edit suite. It is compact and tough enough to withstand even the roughest treatment in between locations. It even comes complete with its own ballistic hard shell case for even greater protection.
Its ports are Thunderbolt 3 and drive interface is the M.2 NVMe. The max transfer rate can reach up to 40Gb/s. Thus, this OWC ThunderBlade SSD has high performance. The sequential read and write speed of a single OWC ThunderBlade SSD can reach up to 2800MB/s and 2450MB/s. And if you use the daisy-chain multiple Thunderbolt up to six with the OWC’s SoftRAID software controller, its transfer speed can reach up to 3800MB/s.
The extreme performance of OWC ThunderBlade SSD might be the ultimate working drive for media professionals. And it can be worked with 4K or 8K video.
In addition, the OWC ThunderBlade Gen 2 SSD has universal compatibility since it is compatible with any Mac or PC with a Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt 2, or a Thunderbolt 3 interface. And if you want to get better performance, you need a Thunderbolt 3 interface.
Price and Warranty
Like all OWC drivers, ThunderBlade is built to the highest standards of reliability and performance. This OWC SSD is rigorously tested and the result shows that this solid-state drive has a good reliability. In addition, OWC provides a limited 3-year warranty for this series of SSD.
For the price of this OWC ThunderBlade SSD, the 8TB model goes for $3500 which has been dropped down $1500 from previous generations. And the 4TB model is about $1900.
Final Words
After reading this post, you can know that OWC has shown a series of new external SSD – OWC ThunderBlade SSD which comes in large storage size and high performance. Its hard drive capacity can reach up to 8TB. However, it is not enough for you, you even can add daisy-chain which can up to 8TB. This OWC Thunderbolt Gen 2 SSD also has good reliability and can provide good protection for your data.
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