The sides of the device have passive ventilation, in fact it is the only ventilation that can be found. Going around to the rear of the device the power connection is on the left hand side while the 2 Thunderbolt connections are on the right. Overall the unit feels very well built with rack mounting ears that are structurally sound.įor this review we tested the Blackmagic MultiDock on a current generation MacBook Pro using 4 256GB Samsung 850 PRO SSDs and using the Blackmagic Speed Test. We also tested the MultiDock on our consumer testing platform. This is a stand-alone review without competitive data, however the device itself doesn’t have much in the way of direct competition. We tested a single drive, RAID mirror, and RAID0 configuration. When testing the MultiDock in RAID0, we saw read and write speeds of 812.3MB/s and 775.3MB/s respectively. This is much higher than the claim of 500MB/s (though Blackmagic didn’t assign a configuration with the claim). Obviously RAID0 gives the best performance but not the best data protection. In the event of a failure the work for the given session could be lost, however the core data would be retained located on a secondary storage system. Testing the device on RAID mirror, we see a dip in performance but that is to be expected with increase in data protection. We also tested a single drive which gave us a read speed of 383MB/s and a write speed of 357.7MB/s We saw a read speed of 525MB/s and a write speed of 212.1MB/s. Testing the MultiDock on our consumer testing platform, with a 2MB sequential test a single drive showed us speeds of 330.97MB/s write and 362.16MB/s read.
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