yo what's going on friends it's Jonathan welcome back to another JC production
where I delivered your daily dose of hotness in this video we're taking a
look at some storage hotness we're talking about the lossy to big dock
which I briefly touched on in my 2019 nab roundup video if you missed it no
worries I'm gonna get you up to speed the lossy to big dock is an all-in-one
solution for whenever you're working at your desktop it brings a few ports back
that your laptop or desktop might be missing while doubling as external
storage and optional raid formations let's see gives you everything you need
in the Box to get started this includes a Thunderbolt 3 cable that I wish was a
little longer a USB 3.0 adapter external power supply quick install guide and
also a free one-month subscription to Adobe's Creative Cloud suite the free
one-month offer is going to depend on when you purchased or to big dock so
just keep that in mind the two big dock just Springs quality it's made of a
brushed aluminum with sharp corners and a small blue light on the front it also
packs quite a bit of heft and when combined with the rubberized bottom I've
had zero worries of it falling off my desk in terms of ports you're looking at
two Thunderbolt three ports on the back one USB C 3.1 port and one DisplayPort
version 1.2 that supports 720p 1080p and 4k displays up to 60 Hertz on the front
you have a USB 3.0 type-a port a compact flash slot and a UHS 2 SD card slot you
can daisy-chain up to five additional Thunderbolt 3 devices if you're wanting
to adapt a Thunderbolt 1 or Thunderbolt 2 device to the two big dock it's
possible to do so but only on Mac and you need to use Apple's Thunderbolt
adapters to do it like the Thunderbolt 2 - Thunderbolt 3 one that you see here it
also supports power delivery through book Thunderbolt 3 and the USB C ports
on the back someone connected to Thunderbolt 3 you can get 15 watts of
power while the USB C port delivers 27 watts of power the two big dock features
a hardware RAID controller on the backside you're gonna find a button that
is used for rage synchronization and initialization speaking of raid the two
big dock comes pre-configured in H of S and raid zero however using the let's
see raid manager it can be configured to raid one or jbod
if you're on a Windows machine you'll need to download the necessary drivers
along with the raid manager the software is really straightforward and easy to
use I was able to figure it out right away
Lucy also offers backup software for Mac which will backup personal information
the two big doc can be purchased in various configurations but all of them
are to drive only sizes range from 8 terabyte up to 28 terabyte and every
variant uses enterprise-class drives for maximum reliability the
drives can be removed by pressing a small button on the sides of each and
opening up the front the drives are hot swappable which means you don't need to
power down the to big dock to replace one drive just make sure you're
replacing it with one of equal or greater capacity and to use one of
Lucy's approved third-party drives I'll leave a link to the list in the
description the performance of the to big dock is great the advertised speeds
are up to 440 megabytes per second which is just a hair higher than what I was
able to achieve from my testing and raid 0 I was able to achieve 438 point 4
megabytes Reed and 435 point 1 megabytes right while connected to my razor blade
15 via Thunderbolt 3 I was also able to achieve similar speeds on my macbook pro
when it comes to video editing I was able to edit 4k video and premiere with
no issue and even 8k using a proxy workflow was just fine
the two big dock is audible during workloads since they are large spinning
hard disk drives and not SSDs but I didn't find it to be a huge deal that
being said if you're going to be doing any voiceover work I would suggest
disconnecting the drive and turning it off prior just in case
I went ahead and moved my entire steam game library over to the raid and I was
able to play all of my games without any issues when it comes to speeds the games
loaded fast and the performance was always consistent each two big dock
comes back with a five-year data recovery service giving you some peace
of mind while this isn't a cheap investment from a content creators
perspective I feel it's one of the most important purchases you can make there's
nothing worse than while you're working on a long project the storage drives
fail and you lose all of your work without any recovery options available
I've been really impressed with the performance I'm getting from the two big
dock and having those extra ports just make my workload that much easier if
you're interested in more information or if you want to pick one up for yourself
I'll leave links down in the description so make sure to check there hope you
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