Areca Preps High Capacity Thunderbolt 3 ARC-8052T3

[Guest]

Areca brings enterprise-level hardware RAID to a 12-bay Thunderbolt 3 enclosure designed for serious A/V editing. The system utilizes 32Gb/s of low-latency storage bandwidth and carries an additional 8Gb/s of video to support high-resolutions.

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[2Be_or_Not2Be]

I can't imagine that dropping the eSATA & SAS ports are going to reduce the retail price that much. You're already going to be over the ARC-8050T2 8-bay price since the new one will have 12-bays, so why not keep those ports to make sure you have more "checks" on your product than your competitor?

 

[hellwig]

Are there a lot of consumer products with Thunderbolt 3 ports? Or do these types of enclosures typically come with the add-on PCIe cards they use? Seems to me most PCs with Thunderbolt tend to be of the notebook variety, but if you need to run a 12-bay disk server, why not?

Maybe I'm just using the wrong search terms on Newegg?

 

[2Be_or_Not2Be]

Are there a lot of consumer products with Thunderbolt 3 ports? Or do these types of enclosures typically come with the add-on PCIe cards they use? Seems to me most PCs with Thunderbolt tend to be of the notebook variety, but if you need to run a 12-bay disk server, why not?

Maybe I'm just using the wrong search terms on Newegg?

Most "consumer" motherboards that have TB3 use the Intel Alpine Ridge controller. Gigabyte had some kind of deal w/Intel to use their controller exclusively for a short time. You can see some of their boards with TB3 here. I think some others have access to it now, so more should be available.