Atech Flash Technology recently released the Blackjet UX-1 Cinema Dock. The Californian company’s rack-mountable docking solution offers dual SSD-docking, as well as slots for most industry standard memory card formats, like CFast 2.0, CompactFlash, XQD 2.0, SD (up to UHS-II) and microSD. It connects via Thunderbolt 3, offering transfer speeds of up to 2750 MB/s, can be configured to be a RAID and supports daisy chaining. We had a closer look. The Blackjet UX-1 Cinema Dock is obviously made to be rack-mounted and fits a standard rack mount system. The SSD ports are front-loading and don’t require a caddy or some other solution like that. The right part of the device is taken up by the various memory card slots it offers. There is one group of slots for CFast 2.0 and XQD 2.0 and one for the other slots – we will come back to the significance of that fact. The back of the device consists of a power connection as well as Thunderbolt 3 in and out ports. The Blackjet UX-1 supports most common memory card formats Thunderbolt 3, Transfer Speeds and RAID The Blackjet UX-1 Cinema Dock accepts two SSDs at the same time. These can either be mounted as single drives, or configured to be either a RAID 0, RAID 1 or JBOD. As a reminder: RAID 0 will award you the combined speed of the SSDs mounted into the dock using striping, but no data redundancy, while RAID 1 will offer full redundancy without any...
Published By: CineD - Friday, 19 October, 2018