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Review on TERRAMASTER D16 Thunderbolt 3 (D16-331) Most Compact Professional-Grade 16-Bay Tower Thunderbolt3 Hardware RAID Enclosure Support RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50 External Hard Drive RAID Storage (Diskless) by Sri Wells

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Poor write speed from single or RAID-0 Samsung 850 Pro SSDs

This TD2 Thunderbolt 3 does not deliver the expected write performance. When writing to a single 850 Pro SSD (256MB), I got about 120MB/s. Using the same drive via a single USB 3.0 connection resulted in write speeds of >240MB/s. The test was conducted using a single 5GB ZIP file. Using the test software also showed that I couldn't get the write performance I expected. Read performance was closer to the mark. Using it with two 85O Pro in either hardware RAID 0 mode or Windows RAID mode did NOT improve write performance at all. I got help from Revain to get the correct support email and after a few emails back and forth to the sad realization that it is. Read speed 760MB/s, maximum write speed 456MB/s. My old Highpoint setup with an interface card that provided 2 eSATA ports for its own external dual eSATA storage dock (not included) delivered 760MB read and write speeds.

Pros
  • Quick swap
Cons
  • Negative experience