TerraMaster goes big with the D8-332 8-bay professional-grade RAID enclosure

The D8-332 can hold both 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch drives. Image source: Terramaster.

TerraMaster has gone big with the D8-332. The eight-bay Thunderbolt 3 RAID enclosure offers professional-grade RAID storage offering up to 160TB of storage and is compatible with both 3.5-inch SATA disks and 2.5-inch SSDs.

With Thunderbolt 3, the D8-332 can connect with other Thunderbolt 3 devices or up to five other D8-332s offering up to 800TB of storage!

Besides the flexible storage configurations, the array can operate with RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10, as well as a JBOD disk array modes for differing application needs.

With a pair of Thunderbolt 3 interfaces (40 Gbps) and a hardware RAID controller, the D8-332 can operate at transfer speeds of 1,600 MB/s under a 7,200 RPM high-speed hard disk and RAID 0 array mode. Under RAID 5, the device can achieve a speed of 1,440 MB/s.

Pricing and availability

The pair of Thunderbolt 3 interfaces. Image source: Terramaster.

Do note that the D8-332 is a DAS and not a NAS. It is priced at US$1,299.99 on Amazon, but this is just for the enclosure and storage will be priced separately.