OWC Flex 1U4 Drive Enclosure Serial ATA, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), U.2, PCI Express NVMe - Thunderbolt 3 Host Interface - 1U Rack-mountable - Black

OWC Flex 1U4 Drive Enclosure Serial ATA, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), U.2, PCI Express NVMe - Thunderbolt 3 Host Interface - 1U Rack-mountable - Black

The Rackmount Workflow Game-Changer

Since the launch of the OWC ThunderBay desktop storage line in 2014, computer users across the planet have continued to fall in love with it. They embrace its massively powerful RAID capacity and intense performance fueled by time-tested OWC reliability. Its appeal skyrocketed when it was infused with industry-first FLEXibility to create ThunderBay Flex 8.

Now businesses, institutions, studios, and creatives can go beyond the desktop with the OWC Flex 1U4. This innovative 4-bay rackmount solution is ready to fuel your endeavors with the best combination of storage capacity, Thunderbolt transfer performance, drive flexibility, and device expandability. With FLEX in its name, you can count on the OWC Flex 1U4 to be your rackmount workflow game-changer.

Rack Up Workflow Flexibility

You'll turn your expandability and connectivity dreams into reality when you add the OWC Flex 1U4 to your rack or cart. Use a mix of 2.5 or 3.5-inch SATA/SAS and U.2/M.2 NVMe drives with four quick-access, hot-swappable drive bays. Connect mixers, keyboards, cameras, and other gear to your heart's content as well as charge mobile devices with an ample variety of Thunderbolt and USB ports. Add up to an 8K display via DisplayPort. And when you have a custom capture, recording, networking, or storage need, the OWC Flex 1U4 lets you install a PCIe card to conquer specialized tasks.

Future Ready

When your workflow needs change, the "FLEXpandability" of the OWC Flex 1U4 easily adapts. Add new drives, connect different devices, and install a half-length full-height single-width PCIe x16 card of your choice like a 10Gb Ethernet networking card or the blistering fast OWC Accelsior 4M2 SSD for expanded performance storage capacity. By not locking you into an inflexible single-task design, the OWC Flex 1U4 extends its useful life and maximizes your investment well into the future.

Ideal for All Rackmount Environments

The OWC Flex 1U4 is like a bolt-in productivity supercharger for new or existing rack environments powered by a rack Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, or even a Mac mini. Whether you build your own custom drive and card configuration or select one of our convenient ready-to-run solutions, the OWC Flex 1U4 is ideal in a wide variety of settings:

• In School: perfect for taming ever-growing collections of digital files with easy integration and future drive capacity and performance scalability.


• At Work: adds Thunderbolt speed and swappable drives to server closets, server rooms, or colocation center backup capabilities.


• On Stage: handles all the storage and peripheral connectivity needs "front of house" pros require for live performances.


• On Set: easily fits into mobile DIT carts to capture multi-stream, hi-res footage at full framerate while daisy-chaining up to five additional Thunderbolt devices.


• In Studio: expands storage and connectivity options of fixed racks.


• At Home: great for installers creating a high-performance home entertainment server closet.

Do It U.2 It

A hallmark of OWC FLEX technology is the ability to use U.2 NVMe SSDs as well as the OWC ecosystem of U.2 drives and adapters. U.2 NVMe drives are specifically designed to maximize the PCIe bus and when combined with Thunderbolt, you'll blast past fast with up to 2750MB/s real-world transfer speed. Whether you use your rackmount setup to complete massive backups faster, stream content during a live performance, edit large format video, or run high transactional and complex calculation applications, you can do it U.2 to it with the OWC Flex 1U4.

• Drive diversity


• : use SATA/SAS and U.2/M.2 NVMe drives for up to 128TB of capacity and real-world Thunderbolt speeds up to 2750MB/s


• Drive flexibility


• : swap drives quickly and easily if/when needed


• Go Maximum


• : utilize U.2 NVMe SSDs - as well as the OWC ecosystem of U.2 drives and adapters - for incredible speed and flash density per bay


• Includes SoftRAID:


• robust software for creating, monitoring, and managing advanced RAID sets


• Use it all


• : connect keyboards, mixers, cameras, displays, and mobile devices such as tablets with (2) USB-C 10Gb/s and (3) USB-A 10Gb/s ports


• See more


• : connect up to an 8K display to the DisplayPort 1.4 port


• Do more


• : add a half-length full-height single-width audio/video capture, 10Gb Ethernet, SSD storage, hardware RAID, or I/O card to the PCIe x16 lane (at x4 speed) slot


• Configurable


• : daisy chain up to five devices or add an additional display with the second Thunderbolt (USB-C) port


• Charge


• : keep your notebook powered with 85W via the upstream Thunderbolt port


• 1 Year OWC Limited Warranty