hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the Terra Master d2 thunderbolt
3 and this is a little portable raid storage server or RAID storage array as
you can see here on the bottom and it is really really nice I've been using it
for the past couple of weeks as a scratch disk for Final Cut Pro we'll
talk more about that in a moment and it comes in at two hundred and forty nine
ninety nine so this is a Thunderbolt three raid array so it can go up to 40
gigabits per second so with this storage server you've got a Thunderbolt 3 cable
that's included you've also got your power adapter here and then you've got a
little screw driver so that you can remove the drives or install them so
let's set these aside now let's take a look around the outside now this is an
aluminum enclosure with a handle on the top it's all aluminum the front and back
are plastic now on the front we have a button for power
we've got hard disk drive one hard disk drive - and we've got our two drive bays
and we'll take a look at that in a moment
now I did actually drop this and you can see there's some dents here so this is
plastic nothing was wrong with the driver a but it held up well and I don't
normally drop these things but it actually was being transported someone
opened the back of my vehicle and it fell out so I picked it up and that's
what was wrong with it but it works fine no problems there so it seems to be
pretty durable now on the back we have a fan it's an exhaust fan and then we also
have our DC in we've got a little display port here and then we've got
Thunderbolt 3 2 ports so this allows for a pass-through so if you want to plug in
connect to your computer and then plug into a monitor you can do that or add
another storage array and then on the bottom you've got some settings so
you've got raid 0 raid 1 j-bot and single and then a little reset
button now if we take a look at the drive bays these allow for up to 28
terabytes of storage so if we pull these out they're hot swappable as well you'll
see I actually have solid-state drives in them and that's because I wanted fast
storage for actually editing video now you can use a full size 3.5 hard drive
like I have here so this just fits in here you'll see it fits nicely on top
no issues there it would fit and it's the same SATA connector that you're used
to with the little power adapter and included is all of the different screws
to install this it only would accept three for this arrangement on this
particular drive but it works just fine no issues there whatsoever now it's nice
and light because of this and these are also hot swappable so if you were using
it you could pull these out of course I've had this in raid zero so you
probably don't want to do that and for those of you that are not familiar with
raid 0 raid zero actually writes to both drives at the exact same time allowing
it to speed up now if you're using hard drives you could use a hard drive like I
said up to 28 terabytes total and it will go as fast as your drives can or
even right now tera master says of course you've got the Thunderbolt 3
interface that will go up to 40 gigabits per second but they also say 760
megabytes a second for read or write speed now I put that to the test I was
using this as a scratch disk and Final Cut Pro editing 4k video straight off of
the drive array no issues whatsoever it works really well and actually in fact
just to put this into RAID you turn it to raid 0 hold reset it formats the
drives and you're good to go there's nothing more to it it was super simple
and then I just plugged it in and it showed up on my desktop and I was able
to edit video no problem and then when I ran a speed test I got five hundred and
seventy four point seven megabytes write speed and then 770 point six megabytes
per second read speed which is incredibly fast and no issues there I'm
pretty happy with that so Terra master says seven hundred and sixty I got seven
hundred and seventy as far as read speed with these two solid-state drives that's
going to be your fastest option now if you want it just for storage and you
don't care as much about read and write the actual speed is going to depend on
your hard drives that you're using but other than that this is a great little
raid array it's been reliable I've had no issues with it
and it seems to work as advertised and for 249 it's not bad especially because
it includes that Thunderbolt 3 cable and seems to work really well but I
definitely recommend this if you're looking for a portable raid array and
you need something that's simple and just
like I said to format these into the different raid array all you do is hold
that little button reset after you change it to what you want and it just
resets and wipes the dries and you're good to go then you can see them in your
Disk Utility use it with Windows Mac it doesn't matter but usually with
Thunderbolt 3 you'll be using it with Mac and it works great for Final Cut Pro
but let me know your thoughts in the comments below if you've used Terra
Master products I'd love to hear what you have to say in the comments below
and if you use this one specifically I'd love to hear your thoughts on it as well
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