jeffbonwick

rob53 said:

No Windows or Linux support as a CON? Not to me. This device is designed for Macs so I really don't care if other OSes can't use it.

The write speeds show the typical issues my MBA are having. Great read speeds but limited write speeds. I could be wrong but it appears this storage device is meant for four Macs. What I would like to see is a Mac Studio connecting to this device with four TB cables with the ability to run RAID using all four individual TB channels on the Mac Studio to push 1/4th of the data through each channel into the RAID.

The Mac Studio's unified memory is really fast, much faster than TB-attached external devices. I could see the use of this RAID storage for a small cluster of Macs but I'd rather see a external device that pushes the limits of Thunderbolt and NVMe RAID boxes. Iodyne talks about multi-path performance (Combine multiple Thunderbolt connections for the first time to boost bandwidth to a single computer.) but unless I'm not understanding their new-to-me terms, I don't see how I'd be able to connect four TB ports from the Mac Studio to the RAID and have it automatically direct data through all four ports. Will macOS do this automatically?