OWC dock data transfer rate

[juh]

Hello

I'm planning to buy a thunderbolt2 dock (OWC double dock) to plug in my Macpro 2013, with two SSD drives inside (2To each).

First question, is it a good dock ? No disturbing noise ?

Then I need to know if the data transfer rate is the same with one or two drives ? Or is it divided by two with one drive in each bay ?

Thank you!

[Darryl Ramm]

Can you provide a URL to the exact device you are looking at?

What will you use this storage for? Do you have performance needs/problems now?

Unfortunate that Trashcans have really crippled IO. The fastest storage you can can get on a trashcan is the internal SSD. If you need fast disk you are likely better off running sessions off that than any external drives.... if you have space. And then moving inactive sessions to external drives. Disk cache can also help greatly, so make sure that is enabled (set to size not “normal”).

[juh]

Hello Darryl

Here's the URL :
https://www.owcdigital.com/products/...-thunderbolt-2

Currently I'm working with 3 external drives (7200 plugged in 3 USB ports).
I'm a composer so I use many sample libraries, that's why I'd like to use SSD drives...
My sessions are located in one external drive, I could try to transfer the active ones in my internal SSD (almost full...)

So it's not a good idea to use thunderbolt ports with external drives using PT ?

[climber]

Originally Posted by juh

So it's not a good idea to use thunderbolt ports with external drives using PT ?

Why would you think that? I’ve been doing it for the past 6 years.

[jwilkers]

I use that dock with 5 different drives (all spinners) and no issues at ALL.
Connected to a 2014 MacBook Pro

[juh]

Why would you think that? I’ve been doing it for the past 6 years.

I use that dock with 5 different drives (all spinners) and no issues at ALL.

OK so that's a good news for me.

Is a dock better than an external drive (with usbc output) plugged via a usbc/thunderbolt adaptator ?

And does the data transfer rate is the same with one or two drives in the dock ?

Thanks a lot