STH readers will know that the good 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSDs we review will end up costing about $1800 for 12x 1TB drives. These sell at $3950 for the 12TB model and $7600 for the 24TB model. Perhaps the big question our readers will have is pricing. That seems to indicate that the 24TB model is using 2TB NVMe SSDs while the 12TB model is using 1TB drives. For the 24TB model those numbers are 20TB in RAID 6 or 24TB in RAID 0. The maximum capacity for the 12TB model is 10TB in RAID 6 or 12TB in RAID 0. Iodyne says that this is good for 5GB/s, or somewhere between being as fast as a local PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD and an older Gen3 SSD. Right now the main application is the Apple ecosystem but there are Linux and Windows beta support options. RAID 0 or RAID 6), filesystems, and hosts that are connected. This application also has data on how the device is configured (e.g. Iodyne also has a management solution so one can see the status of the SSDs and fans. We can see they have small heatsinks but the idea is that one can be replaced if it fails in the field. The drives themselves are designed to be replaceable. The remainder of the chassis is dedicated to providing the RAID and management functionality as well as the Thunderbolt support. Inside the system, there are twelve NVMe SSDs. Instead, there are eight Thunderbolt ports that can each connect to a host workstation Iodyne is focusing on Apple’s ecosystem to start with) or to another unit to add capacity via daisy chaining. While many STH readers may ask “is this a NAS” it does not have a network port. Perhaps the first feature that we would discuss is connectivity.
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Iodyne Pro Data Portable Thunderbolt NVMe RAID The Iodyne Pro Data is a portable Thunderbolt storage solution that houses internal NVMe RAID and many Thunderbolt ports in one chassis. When it comes to portable storage, there are a number of options on the market, but Iodyne, a California startup, believes it has a better solution.