Subscribe to 9to5Mac on YouTube for more videos Great for the mid-2017 5K iMacĪt 7.52 x 3.78 x 4.53-inches, the Thunder3 Quad Mini is very compact, especially when you consider that it’s capable of housing four drives. Dedicated Display Port (1.2) for additional monitor connectivity (4K 60Hz).Supports up to four 2.5-inch HDDs or SSDs.Daisy chain another Thunderbolt 3 or USB 3.1 Gen 2 device (supports up to 6 TB3 devices in chain).
Akitio Thunder 3 Quad Mini all-aluminum Space Gray enclosure.Have a look at our hands-on video walkthrough for more details. In other words, it’s a quiet enclosure that’s perfect for RAID 0 SSD setups for maximum speed. This four-bay enclosure comes with two Thunderbolt 3 ports in a small aluminum enclosure that supports passive cooling for noiseless operation.
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Much of the Thunderbolt 3 hardware shipping today is no longer “Windows only”, which is a great thing for recent MacBook Pro and Mid-2017 iMac hardware with Thunderbolt 3 I/O capabilities.Īkitio’s Thunder3 Quad Mini is one such example of Thunderbolt 3-enabled hardware made with the Mac in mind. In today’s world, things are a bit different. Instead, users had to rely on a hack in order to enable support for these enclosures, due to the fact that macOS wasn’t compatible with the Thunderbolt 3 chipsets being used. Last year I went hands-on with a few Akitio Thunderbolt 3-enabled drive enclosures for 9to5Mac, but none of the previous enclosures came with out-of-the-box support for macOS.
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