All these units are supplied with drives pre-installed, negating the possibility of finding a deal on storage.
But, here’s where things start to go South.
While the SSD is user-upgradable, the internal hard drives aren’t accessible for replacement or upgrades.
As an ex-IT professional, there is so much about this setup that represents a red flag.
I’d recommend looking at what TerraMaster offers in external Thunderbolt storage arrays before backing this Kickstarter.
That’s $460 of technology with a Kickstarter price of $699 in a heavy aluminium box.
That makes roughly $2600 of hardware for a $4999 investment.
These quoted numbers are retail costs, not what Orico would pay for OEM technology.
It can deliver a similar option for around $3000 for the D5 and drives when configured.
Making this specifically for Apple Mac users seems to have affected the price of the Data Matrix devices.
The only user access is on the underside of the Data Matrix Pro.
When on a PC, at least, they are not.
However, that arrangement is described; ‘hybrid’ doesn’t appear to fit its specification.
Oh, and spare the $25,000 needed to pay for them.
The clunky nature of that exercise hints at a user experience we’ll discuss next.
The quoted speed of the CFexpress pop in-B slot is 1,500Mb/s, should you have media of that specification.
That speed assumes you copy the contents to the SSD, not the hard drives.
However, a Thunderbolt dock provides that functionality inherently and typically costs between $200 and $300.
The dip-switch set RAID technology is of limited use.
That could be a possibility.
Whatever the truth, this isn’t a Kickstarter that this reviewer is inclined to back.
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