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The Ultimate Transportable Film Production Storage Solution
Highlights
- Ideal for media workflows: dramatically lowers production to lab shipping costs vs shipping larger, heavier drives
- Lightning fast: up to 2800MB/s
- Includes SoftRAID Pro: robust software for creating, monitoring, and managing advanced RAID sets
- RAID ready: configure for max capacity, speed, protection, or combination of attributes
- Easy Swaps: transport the U2 Shuttle to other OWC U.2 bay devices like the OWC ThunderBay Flex 8 and PCs
- Charge while working: 85W of notebook charging
- 3-Year OWC Limited Warranty
Speed. Security. Savings. The seemingly impossible trinity of what you desire from your media workflow data storage is now an achievable reality with the OWC U.2 Workflow Solution. As an early pioneer and now leading developer of U.2 storage solutions, we’ve utilized our expertise to create the ultimate high-performance transportable film production storage solution. Blistering speed. Massive capacity. RAID-ready flexibility. Swappable convenience. It’s all ready for you to immediately put to work with nothing to configure or assemble with the OWC U.2 Workflow Solution.
Meet Your Supporting Cast
Delivering a starring performance requires a diversely talented cast. Taking the spotlight is the OWC U2 Shuttle. It’s the world’s first shuttle for four NVMe SSDs that easily inserts into 3.5-inch U.2 drive bays. It’s everything you’ve wanted in a multiple blade SSD – and similar to our award-winning ThunderBlade - but with enhanced capabilities for media production workflows.
Next up is the dynamic duo of the OWC U.2 NVMe Interchange System and the OWC Mercury Helios 3S. With a locking drive bay to keep your data secure, the Interchange System transforms the Mercury Helios 3S PCIe expansion chassis into a swappable U.2 bay. In true OWC fashion to make things super easy for you, the Interchange System drive bay conveniently arrives with the OWC U2 Shuttle installed with your choice of massive OWC Aura Pro SSD capacities.
Saves You Time and Money
For over three decades, OWC has listened to pros like you and created innovative solutions that solved your data storage challenges. As such, we heard you loud and clear about getting drives to post-production on a tight deadline with an equally tight project budget. The OWC U.2 Workflow Solution saves you time and money while safeguarding your data with an easy three step drive swap process:
- Step 1. Disconnect the Thunderbolt cable from the Helios 3S and unlock the drive bay.
- Step 2. Pull the U2 Shuttle out of the bay and ship it to post-production.
- Step 3. Slide U2 Shuttle into the drive bay, lock the drive bay, and reconnect the Thunderbolt cable to keep your data and projects flowing smoothly and securely.
Imagine…no more tedious and time-consuming drive enclosure disassembly or costly shipping of an entire enclosure to get a day’s shoot to post-production!
Includes SoftRAID Pro: Easy and Complete Drive Management
SoftRAID Pro is the most powerful, intuitive software RAID utility on the market. Multiple RAID options let you select the RAID level that fits you or your project’s needs best. If you need maximum volume capacity, optimum drive performance, data protection, or a combination of attributes, SoftRAID Pro has you covered.
Packed with features like drive validation, verification and failure prediction—SoftRAID Pro includes features you simply don’t get with hardware RAID. It’s like having a datacenter on your desktop! From home users looking to protect photos and documents to professionals needing to protect and quickly access projects, SoftRAID Pro is the perfect solution.
- Advanced: Create RAID 0/1/4/5/1+0 (10) arrays1
- Protected: SoftRAID Monitor constantly watches your disks and alerts you if problems are detected
- Validated: Volume validation ensures sectors can be read and parity is correct
- Certified: Checks disks before use to ensure they are safe for data storage
- Vigilant: Error prediction helps protect against unexpected failure
- Universal: Move SoftRAID arrays seamlessly between Macs and PCs with built-in OWC MacDrive technology
SoftRAID provides a level of performance that you simply can’t get with hardware RAID.
Dive deeper into the benefits of OWC SoftRAID.
- RAID 4/1+0 (10) are Mac only at this time.
- Thunderbolt 2/Thunderbolt compatibility requires a certified Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 (mDP) adapter and a Thunderbolt 2 cable. This configuration provides data transfer at Thunderbolt 2 speeds (up to 20Gb/s) but does not support notebook charging.
Includes
- (1) OWC U2 Shuttle 3.5-inch NVMe U.2 Solid-State Drive
- (2) Security Keys
- (1) Quick Start Guide for OWC U2 Shuttle
- (1) Assembly Manual & User Guide for OWC U2 Shuttle
- 3-Year OWC Limited Warranty
- Capacities: 4TB/ 8TB/ 16TB/ 32TB
- Standard Mechanism:
- 4TB - (4) 1TB OWC Aura P12 Pro PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD
- 8TB - (4) 2.0TB OWC Aura Pro IV PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD
- 16TB - (4) 4.0TB OWC Aura P12 Pro PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD
- 32TB - (4) 8.0TB OWC Aura P12 Pro PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD
- *OWC reserves the right to replace or upgrade to equivalent or better components.
- Display Support: Up to one 8K display @ 60Hz
- Chipset:
- Thunderbolt 3: Titan Ridge (JHL7440)
- PCIe switch: ASM2812X
- Form Factor: 3.5-inch U.2
- Storage Interface: PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3
- Card Interface: PCIe
- PCIe Lanes: x 4
- PCIe Slot: x 16
- PCIe Version: PCI Express 3.1
- RAID Support: Yes
- RoHS Compliant: Yes
- Certifications: CE, FCC, VCCI, RCM, BSMI
- Data Rate:
- Max theoretical PCIe bandwidth: 3940 MB/s (varies by SSD and host device)
- Max theoretical bandwidth inside a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure: 2800 MB/s
- Plug and Play: Yes
- RAID Capable: Yes
- RAID Levels Supported:
- RAID 0
- RAID 1
- RAID 4
- RAID 5
- RAID 10
- JBOD
- RAID Features: Software RAID
- Driver Required: SoftRAID Only
- Power Supply: External UL-listed universal auto-switching power supply
- AC Input: 100-240V, 50-60 Hz, 2.2A
- DC Output: +12V, 12.5A
- Wattage: 150W
- External Power Adapter: Yes
- Power Delivery:
- One Thunderbolt 3 port with 85W power delivery
- One Thunderbolt 3 port with 15W power delivery
- Drive Bays:
- 1 bay supporting: 3.5-inch U.2 drives, M.2 drives (with M.2 to U.2 adapter)
- Included OWC U2 Shuttle contains four NVMe M.2 2280 "M Key" SSDs
- Expansion Slots: PCIe 3.0 interface (x4) with x16 physical slot
- Device Ports:
- (1) Host Port - Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) up to 40 Gb/s (5000 MB/s)
- (1) Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) Port
- (1) DisplayPort Port
- Internal Connectivity: U2
- Cooling: (1) cooling fan
- Security Slot: Yes
- Housing Color: Black
- Housing Material: Aluminum
- Dimensions:
- Height: 8.2 cm (3.2 in)
- Length: 23.3 cm (9.2 in)
- Width: 14.3 cm (5.6 in)
- Weight: 2.7 kg (6.05 lbs)
- Ambient Temperature:
- Operating: 41°F to 95°F (5°C to 35°C)
- Non-Operating: -4°F to 140°F (-20°C to 60°C)
- Altitude:
- Operating: -304.8 m to 3,048.0 m (-1,000 ft to 10,000 ft)
- Non-Operating: -304.8 m to 12,192.0 m (-1,000 ft to 40,000 ft)
- Humidity:
- Operating: 8% to 90% non-condensing
- Non-Operating: 5% to 95% non-condensing
- Notes:
- OWC Mercury Helios 3S can deliver up to 85W of power for charging via host port.
- If the PCIe card installed uses more than 25W of power, plug in the power adapter to your host.
- Thunderbolt 2/Thunderbolt compatibility requires a certified Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 (mDP) adapter and a Thunderbolt 2 cable (available separately). This configuration provides data transfer at up to 20Gb/s but does not support notebook charging.
- Full DisplayPort 1.4 capabilities including 8K resolution depends on host computer support of DisplayPort 1.4 specification through its Thunderbolt 3 connection, host computer GPU capabilities, and connecting cable capabilities.
- Mac OS Compatibility:
- macOS 10.14 Mojave
- macOS 10.15 Catalina
- macOS 11.x Big Sur
- macOS 12.x Monterey
- macOS 13.x Ventura
- PC OS Compatibility:
- Windows 10 64-bit Edition
- Windows Server 2022
- Windows 11
- Driver Required: SoftRAID Only
- Supported PCIe Cards:
- Mechanical: x16 slot and enclosure support cards up to half-length, full-height, and double-width
- Bandwidth: PCIe 3.0 x4. Cards that require a minimum of x8 or more PCIe lanes are not supported.
- GPUs not supported
- If the card requires a driver it must be Thunderbolt-aware.
- Cards that require more than 75W are not supported.
- Other Requirements: macOS 10.14.5 or later is required. OWC U2 Shuttle requires a compatible NVMe U.2 host enclosure, such as the OWC ThunderBay Flex 8 (top 4 bays only, top-left recommended), the OWC Helios 3S with U.2 NVMe Interchange System, or the OWC Elite Mercury Pro U.2 Dual.