OWC Accelsior 8M2 kontroler 8x NVMe PCIe 4.0

Amazingly fast, modern and compatible

Whether you're left speechless with amazement or mouthing colorful phrases, the Accelsior 8M2 can be summed up in one definitive sentence:
It's the fastest, highest capacity PCIe SSD in the galaxy.
This beast destroys performance barriers and every PCIe SSD on the market today. So much so that we considered calling it Annihil8r! We're constantly pushing the boundaries of SSDs so you can realize your true potential. With Accelsior 8M2, we exceed your wildest dreams and take you to the most demanding applications imaginable, with certified reliability. From post-production M&E, to real-time artificial intelligence, to climate research on massive data sets… now you have the power to confidently reach higher.

Removes bottlenecks in the work environment

As innovators in storage performance, we know bottlenecks limit your style. The Accelsior 8M2 was purposefully created to be the fastest drive you can use in any workflow. With room for up to eight NVMe M.2 SSDs, the Accelsior 8M2 offers blazing speeds of over 26,000 MB/s and industry-leading capacity. Now you can work faster, process more and save almost without limits.

Reliable design

Creating the fastest PCIe SSD meant combining bold engineering with the latest technology. Each of the eight NVMe M.2 SSD slots in the Accelsior 8M2 can operate at full x4 bandwidth. All this blazing speed is pumped by the full PCIe Gen 4 x16 architecture. To ensure that the Accelsior 8M2 runs at maximum speed for a long time, there is a quiet cooling fan embedded in the aircraft-grade aluminum heatsink. No compromises. Without giving up. Only the ultra-reliable performance Mac and PC users rely on with OWC storage solutions.

Endless possibilities

Accelsior 8M2 offers performance gains in so many different ways that you can create without limits:

• Stream and edit multiple high resolution video streams without any interruption.
• Experiment with larger formats and be closer to the final work
• Edit and store huge photos and image files
• Faster preview, rendering and processing in VFX programs
• Keep scenery and page textures sharp and flowing seamlessly in virtual reality environments.
• Make sure your augmented reality visuals look lifelike
• Seamlessly store and work with multiple production libraries and applications
• More DevOps iterations in less time
• Quickly move critical data to cloud archives for more advanced IoT management.

Crushes I/O intensive applications

When work demands maximum IOPS (Inputs/Outputs Per Second) performance from your storage device, the Accelsior 8M2 crushes data processing tasks in a fraction of the time. Cloud applications, climate research, virtualization applications… Accelsior 8M2 accelerates them all so you can work more efficiently.

When survival depends on reliable performance

Government agencies, companies and institutions need the ability to reliably access and quickly analyze massive data files to make decisions. Accelsior 8M2 is ideal for "big data" geospatial applications used by emergency management organizations to process real-time conditions such as natural disasters such as fire or flood. Officials making life-saving decisions can count on the Accelsior 8M2 to provide actionable data in extreme situations where every second counts.

It shortens the time and budget of the project

Whether you're a media and entertainment production professional or a transportation logistics wizard, there's one ever-present formula for your success:

Time = Money

Knowing that you can work as quickly as possible brings invaluable benefits. Every microsecond saved translates into saving money for the company. An example would be a multi-Oscar™ award-winning film production company that currently uses the best storage technology available but still has limitations in its workflow.

Here are some of the company's problems that can be solved by implementing Accelsior 8M2:

• Insufficient capacity to store multiple reels, so they must transfer media between the main input drive and slower external storage devices.
• Time-consuming process of accessing the finished reel on external drives.
• Struggling with disk space saving methods such as flattening design layers, which requires re-rendering the layers you're working in.
• Insufficient real-time playback speed. Playback must be viewed in several different modes to determine the effects of filters and adjustments.
• Not fast enough to ensure smooth playback of the industry's emerging 16-bit 8K and 10K videos.
• By eliminating the need to remove reels and renders from the current storage platform, the company can reduce production schedules by up to two days. The Accelsior 8M2 can reduce production costs for this company with typical production projects involving 10 rolls of film by an estimated $8,000 per project, making this revolutionary SSD a truly smart investment.

It moves data to the edge

As a high-performance NVMe-based storage solution, Accelsior 8M2 delivers the consistent, low-latency data throughput required for edge computing applications such as industrial automation, smart city ecosystems, and smart retail solutions. The solution rapidly feeds massive amounts of data into CPUs and GPUs, enabling real-time predictive analytics. If your company provides data-driven services to customers, any delays in service can frustrate customers accustomed to instant information and lead to irreparable damage to your brand. With 60% of storage professionals using NVMe SSDs to process big data generated at the edge, Accelsior 8M2 is more than a competitive advantage... it's a best practice.

SoftRAID: RAID Made Easy

Take full advantage of your OWC storage array with the included SoftRAID XT software, the most powerful and intuitive RAID management software on the market for macOS and Windows. SoftRAID's RAID creation and management technology has been perfected over 20 years of development to provide robust data protection and optimized drive performance.
SoftRAID XT provides an unrivaled combination of speed, protection and compatibility:

• Advanced: Creating a RAID 0/1/4/5/1+0 (10)
• Protection: SoftRAID Monitor constantly monitors your drives and alerts you when problems are detected.
• Verified: Volume validation ensures readability of sectors and correct parity.
• Certified: Checks drives before use to ensure they are safe for storing data.
• Alert: Anticipating errors helps protect against unexpected failure
• Universal: Seamlessly transfer SoftRAID arrays between Macs and PCs2 with built-in OWC MacDrive technology

More than hardware RAID

SoftRAID provides a level of storage performance that simply cannot be achieved with hardware RAID. SoftRAID gives you more power and control over RAID drives and drives that hardware RAID cannot, and it doesn't lock you into a technology you can't upgrade or expand.

Technical Specifications

• Number of bays: 8
• Disk bays: 8 bays supporting: M.2 drives
• Supports NVMe M.2 SSDs with 2280 form factor and "M Key" connector type. Single-sided and double-sided SSDs are supported.
• Storage interface: PCIe 4.0 x16, NVMe 1.3
• RAID support: Yes
• RAID Features: Software RAID
• RAID Management: Includes OWC SoftRAID XT RAID management software
• Card interface: PCIe
• Card Format: Full Length; full height
• PCIe slot: x16
• PCIe Bandwidth Allocation: Advanced Switch: A total of sixteen bandwidth bands are available, with a maximum of four lanes available for a single drive.
• PCIe version: PCI Express 4.0
• Compatibility with Mac OS
  macOS 10.13 High Sierra
  macOS 10.14 Mojave
  macOS 10.15 Catalina
  macOS 11.x Big Sur
  macOS 12.x Monterey
  macOS 13.x Ventura
• Operating system compatibility Windows
  Windows 11
  Windows 10 32-bit Edition
  Windows 10 64-bit Edition
  Windows Server 2016
• Power/Activity LED: Yes
• Dimensions
  Height: 12.7 cm (5.0 in)
  Length: 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
  Width: 2.2 cm (0.9 in)
• Weight: 750.0 g (1.65 lb)