The Middle Atlantic SRB-1-DRK-3624 Seismic Certified Riser Base (1-Bay, Black) is seismic certified with an Ip value of 1.5 and is Ideal for protecting equipment in seismically active areas. In addition, it allows for field rough-in prior to the arrival of your DRK racks and enclosures. The riser base also serves as lower cable chase for passing cables between racks in multi-bay installations.

Used with DRK Racks & Enclosures    For Field Rough-in Procedure    Offers Excellent Cable Management    1-Bay Configuration    Fully Welded Steel Construction    Seismic Certified (lp Value 1.5)    1000 lb Weight Capacity    Black Powder Coat Finish    RoHS Compliant

Seismic certified with an Ip value of 1.5

Designed for use in critical or high importance installations in locations with the highest level of seismicity and also in top floor or rooftop installations

Ideal for field rough-in prior to arrival of DRK racks and enclosures in raised floor installations

Riser base acts as a lower cable chase for passing cables between racks in multi-bay installations

1-bay configuration with a weight capacity of 1,000 lb (450 kg)

Only 4' per riser base saves installation time

11-gauge fully welded construction ensures durability

Scratch-resistant black powder coat finish and durable fully welded construction

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. Do you know the read/write speeds for this in a RAID 5 configuration?

A: Sequential Read/Write (compressible data) Read: 585MB/s Write: 607MB/sSequential Read/Write (incompressible data) Read: 594MB/s Write: 548MB/s

Q: 2. I had an iMac with Thunderbolt 2 inputs, now I have a 16in MacBook Pro with USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 inputs. I cannot seem to find an adapter to connect this unit to my MBP. What cable do I need? Please provide a link.

A: You would use B&H item: Apple Thunderbolt 3 Male to Thunderbolt 2 Female Adapter this is a bi-directional adapter for data transfer going to a thunderbolt 2 cable.

Q: 3. How difficult is it to format this product as as RAID 10 for a Windows 10 PC?

A: It should not be difficult as long as you can find the appropriate Windows software.

Q: 4. Are the screws required to attach a drive included with the enclosure?

A: The OWC ThunderBay 4 mini 4-Bay Thunderbolt 3 RAID Array and Drive Enclosure includes required hardware to mount the drives.

Q: 5. What is the brand and model of the four 12TB 3.5" 7200 rpm drives that come with this RAID 5 Array?

A: It is not specified by OWC.

Q: 6. What kind of hard drives come with this product? Please be specific. Thank you.

A: OWCs documentation specify that it includes 4.0TB HGST Deskstar drives.

Q: 7. What is the difference between the 20tb and 16tb. Seems to be a jump in speed from roughly 500mb/sec to 1000mb/sec is this true in a raid 5?

A: I just looked at the benchmarks for the 20TB model, and I do not see anything that suggests 1000MB/sec performance under any circumstance. Both of these should be in the mid 500MB/sec range in RAID 5.

Q: 8. Is it possible to swap disk packs and preserve the data?

A: When configured in RAID 5 the OWC ThunderBay 4 can preserve data in the event of one disk failure at a time.

Q: 9. When is Raid 5 is it using hardware raid controller and not softraid software?

A: The OWC ThunderBay 4 56TB 4-Bay Thunderbolt 3 RAID 5 Array uses an on board RAID controller. SoftRAID is only used to monitor or reconfigure the RAID array.

Q: 10. Does it come with the drives?

A: Per the description, the listing you are referring to: "This particular ThunderBay 4 model comes with four 6TBTB 3.5" 7200 rpm drives for a total of 24TB storage capacity."