ThunderBlade X12

Thunderblade X12 is the ground-breaking advancement you’ve asked for to make seemingly impossible video workflows fast, simple, and seamless. With up to 6600MB/s peak and 5990MB/s sustained write speeds thanks to its Thunderbolt 5 technology, ThunderBlade X12 doubles the performance of its highly acclaimed predecessor. Up to 96TB of storage – 3x more than previously available – is under your control with SoftRAID Premium, the fastest, most powerful and flexible RAID tool on the planet.

The TL;DR to ThunderBlade X12
It’s the perfect portable solution with the highest performance, efficiency, and dependability for film and streaming service content production as well as cutting-edge multi-cam 4K, 6K, or 8K RAW sequences, 12K RAW video and beyond, or even stereoscopic 360 VR editing.

Unleash Your Pro Potential
Adaptability is a key component to your filmmaking success. One day, the job may require working on a Netflix documentary with a range of Sony cameras or ARRI Amiras and Alexa Minis. The next, you’re diving into narrative content with an ARRI Alexa LF, creating commercial magic with a RED V-Raptor, filming aerials with a RED Komodo-X, or engineering cutting-edge camera arrays for complex VFX projects. Whatever the job throws at you and your team, you will unleash your potential with the ThunderBlade X12.

2x Faster Multi-Camera Ingest
In the fast-paced, tight-budget world of filmmaking where time is money, every minute saved is critical. Whether you’re juggling multiple cameras or offloading a variety of media cards simultaneously, you’ll keep your production running ahead of schedule by ingesting twice as fast with ThunderBlade X12. DITs can now simultaneously ingest multiple media types at full speeds

Plentiful Port Possibilities
You can never have enough ports for connectivity. That’s why the ThunderBlade X12 gives you an extra Thunderbolt port so you can daisy-chain additional Thunderbolt devices and place a USB-C device at the end of your chain to create plentiful possibilities.

Purposefully Built for RAID 5
With ThunderBlade X12, you no longer must sacrifice capacity and performance to achieve RAID 5 peace of mind data reliability. 12 NVMe SSDs and Thunderbolt 5 let you work at the speed of thought with the highest capacity and performance available in a shuttle RAID SSD. Now you can streamline on-set and editing tasks while adhering to mandatory requirements (the 3-2-1 Principle) when producing content for large studios such as Netflix.