Any other options for SSD enclosures like the blackmagic....

[DanoS4]

Multidock?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blackmagic-Design-MultiDo...

It's good, but yikes, it'll sting the wallet.

Any other suggestions. Ideally 19" though.
Not using it in raid - just literally a caddy for multiple devices.

[mmm-five]

Don't know if you specifically want a rack mount one like the Blackmagic (as you say you 'just want a caddy'), and you don't specify what interface you're after, or whether you're planning on putting SATA SSDs or m.2 SSDs in there.

There's the OWC Thunderbay (or Thunderbay Mini) @ £300



I've got the older Thunderbolt 2 version with 2 x 1TB SSDs and 2 x 4TB HDDs for backups (all SATA).

Alternatively, there's the USB version - the Mercury Elite Pro Quad @ £200

[DanoS4]

Thanks, yes I’d not overly specified simply as I’m open to ideas.

The black magic is 2.5 SSD.

I’m looking at m2 drives too.

Ideally looking at 19” as it suits my studio rack but we’ll see

[16v stretch]

I'm guessing you want to build an ingest station then?

Just build a server, there's plenty of cases from slim 1u to 4u with 2.5" SAS/SATA hot swap bays. If your chosen motherboard doesn't have enough SATA connectors, you can get a RAID card and run it in non-raid mode. If you're wanting to scrub through black magic raw you'll want a decent spec machine though.

If you're looking for a rackmount disk caddy to connect to your PC, you'll probably have to do a lot more digging though!

[mikef]

I just came across this thread in search, and thought I'd mention the OWC Express 4M2 NVMe Thunderbolt enclosure. Just picked one up off eBay. added four low-cost 2TB NVMe 3 SSD's (Crucial P3 at £88 each) in Raid 0, and now have 8TB of reasonably fast storage attached to my Mac Mini M2 Pro for just over £500 (Apple price for 8TB in the Mini is an extra £2,400 , although that would be twice as fast). The speed is limited by the Thunderbolt connection, so no need for the latest and fastest SSDs - I'm getting Read speed of 2,880 MB/s, Write speed 2,000 MB/s, which is fast enough for video editing. I could also use OWC's SoftRaid for Raid 5 or 10, but my need is essentially for project scratch space

[DanoS4]

Thanks Mike,

Yeh, I'm still looking at a nest of external HDDs & SSDs LOL!

That sounds great - it's predominantly for audio/sound (maybe a bit of FCPX for my watch channel and music channel on Youtube).....

Thanks for posting and reviving the thread

Dan

[mikef]

Cheers. Yes, I’m using for FCPX. The only downside has been a noisy standard fan, so I’ve replaced that by a Gelid 60mm and added a Noctua NA-RC14 low-noise adaptor that came with one of their fans, together they improve by around 4dB at the cost of a couple of ℃