External Storage suggestions

[travisrex]

I'm in the market for an external storage solution as I have max'd out my nMP's 1TB Flash drive.

As most of my drive is taken up with VI samples, I want to find a fast Thunderbolt 2 drive, preferably around 2TB, for streaming samples. This would free up my internal Flash drive for audio and video.

I liked the look of the Lacie little big disk 2 as it was pcie instead of SATA, but I dragged my heels over the price and now they appear to be discontinued.

The only other similar drive I can find is the Sonnet Fusion Flash drive which is expensive and has small capacity.

A quiet, rack mount, Thunderbolt 2 solution with read speeds over 1000 mb/sec would be ideal. Too much to ask?!

I'm mulling over upgrading the internal flash drive with the OWC Aura kit

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDA13MP2.0K/

But I'd like to know if anyone out there has a better suggestion?

[JFreak]

There's only three kinds of service: good, fast, cheap. Pick two :)

Seriously, I know that there are PCIe cards capable of +1GBps and TB enclosures that have no problem with it. Only problem they are not in stock anywhere and it costs what it costs...

[Southsidemusic]

When we are out in hotels mixing and recording with Famous DJ's we ring a MBPr and a external USB3 with Samsung 1TB drive inside which is not Noticable if we use USB3 or TB2 eclosure so if you want something that is proven and works I would suggest a Samsung Series drive in a USB3 external case..

[Webb]

I have a rackmount Blackmagic MultiDock and just load it with SSD drives. No noise at all.

https://www.amazon.com/Blackmagic-De.../dp/B00J4WMHJM