OWC showcased a range of storage solutions for both Macs and Windows PCs at Computex this year. These products includes a new dock, portable SSDs, enclosures, and more.
One highlight at their booth was the OWC Thunderbolt Go Dock, which supports the new Thunderbolt Share standard. This dock allows two PCs or Macs to connect via Thunderbolt Share, enabling a 40 Gbps network connection for rapid file and resource transfers. It also lets users share various ports, I/O, and card readers between the two machines.
The dock includes two downstream Thunderbolt 40 Gbps ports, an HDMI display output, gigabit Ethernet, two 10 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 type-A ports, a 10 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 type-C port, a USB 2.0 port, HD audio with a 4-pole headset jack, and an SD card reader, all powered by its internal power supply.
OWC also introduced the ThunderBlade X8, a desktop portable SSD enclosure that can house up to eight M.2-2242 SSDs for a total of 32 TB of storage. It offers RAID 0/1/4/5/1+0 configurations, with RAID 0 delivering sequential read speeds up to 2826 MB/s and write speeds up to 2949 MB/s. The device features a 40 Gbps Thunderbolt 3 connection and includes two ports for daisy-chaining with other devices.
OWC at Computex also showcased a variety of SD, SDexpress, and CFexpress memory cards under the Atlas brand. A fine example is the recently released Atlas Pro CFexpress 4.0 Type A card series with up to 1850 MB/s read and 1700 MB/s write performance. Sustained write speed is at 400 MB/s which is enough for 4K recording. OWC includes an A to B adapter with a purchase of either 480 GB or 960 GB model.
