Terramaster D4: The Cheapest & fastest SSD Solution?

TerraMaster D4 SSD — 4-Bay USB4 NVMe Enclosure | Unboxing, Install & Real Speed Test 40Gbps, four NVMe bays, all-flash, and small enough to live in a camera bag. On paper the TerraMaster D4 SSD looks like the perfect scratch/transfer drive for an edit suite. In this video I unbox it, install three NVMe SSDs, plug it in, and run a proper speed test to see whether it earns a place in a working post-production workflow — not just on a spec sheet. It's a DAS - not a NAS. I've spent 25 years cutting for the BBC, Netflix and Disney+, so the question I'm really asking is simple: would I trust this with real footage? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔧 THE SPECS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Interface: USB4, 40Gbps Type-C (backward compatible with Thunderbolt 3/4/5 and USB 3.2/3.1/3.0) Controller: ASMedia ASM2464PDX — PCIe Gen4 x1 per bay Bays: 4 × M.2 NVMe 2280 Max capacity: up to 32TB (8TB per drive) RAID: NONE built in. Single-disk mode by default. Soft RAID only — via macOS Disk Utility, Windows Storage Spaces, or third-party tools File systems: NTFS, APFS, exFAT, FAT32, EXT4 Cooling: dual temperature-controlled fans + 4 internal sensors, ~19dB(A) at standby Power: external 12V/2A adapter, wide 12–20V input Dimensions: ~138 × 60 × 140 mm, ~392g Software: TDAS mobile backup app (iOS/Android), TPC Backupper (Windows) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 WHAT'S IN THE BOX ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Enclosure · power adapter · 0.8m USB4 40Gbps cable (rated to 80Gbps) · screwdriver + screws · quick start guide ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ THE HONEST CAVEAT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ There's no hardware RAID. Out of the box each drive mounts on its own, and any striping or redundancy is handled by your operating system or software. For a lot of editors that's actually fine — even preferable — but if you bought this expecting a plug-and-play RAID box, watch the RAID chapter before you buy.