Meet the New 8TB Envoy Ultra: All Your Stuff, All the Thunderbolt 5 Speed, All in One Drive

If you’re cutting or color grading RAW 8K footage, wrangling multi-cam timelines, or shuttling projects between home, studio, and set, you already know the real bottleneck isn’t your creativity—it’s storage. You need sustained speed you can actually work from, and you need enough capacity to keep all of your active projects (and your sanity) in one place.

That’s exactly why OWC is expanding the Envoy Ultra Thunderbolt 5 SSD lineup with a new 8TB model—the largest capacity we’ve ever offered for Envoy Ultra—built for professional creators who want peak portable performance without compromising on convenience. The new Envoy Ultra is the world’s first and only Thunderbolt 5 bus-powered 8TB drive in its class.

Real Thunderbolt 5 performance, over 6000MB/s

With the new 8TB Envoy Ultra, you’re getting over 6000MB/s performance—speed that can keep up with modern pro workflows and feel like a true extension of internal storage. It’s up to 2x faster than Thunderbolt 4 and USB4 drives, which is crucial when you’re moving hundreds of gigabytes per day (or per hour).

For creators, this isn’t about winning a spec-sheet contest—it’s about:

• Scrubbing high-bitrate footage smoothly
• Faster cache/scratch performance for creative apps
• Shorter offload times on set
• Less waiting on exports, proxies, and relinks

8TB changes how you pack (and how you work)

The jump to 8TB is a big deal because it lets you consolidate what used to require multiple drives: active project files, camera originals, audio, graphics, and deliverables.

For many teams, that means fewer points of failure, fewer “where’s that drive?” moments, and a more straightforward workflow when you’re bouncing between machines or collaborating across locations.

Built for the way creators travel

The Envoy Ultra’s design is all about practical portability:

• Bus-powered operation (no power brick, no fuss)
• Built-in Thunderbolt cable so you’re not hunting for the right cord in your bag
• Fanless, heat-dissipating aluminum enclosure for silent operation in quiet edit suites and audio environments
• IP67 rated crushproof, dustproof, waterproof durability—because your gear shouldn’t need to be babied

Envoy Ultra is built for people who do not baby their gear, delivering over 6000MB per second without external power or noise.

Backward compatible, platform-flexible

Thunderbolt 5 is the star of the show, but your workflow probably includes a mix of machines—maybe a newer Thunderbolt 5 desktop, plus a Thunderbolt 4 laptop, plus a USB4 device in the field.

Envoy Ultra is designed to maximize performance across Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, and USB4 machines, so it can slot into real-world setups without forcing an all-at-once upgrade cycle. And it’s built for broad compatibility—Macs, PCs, iPad Pros, Chromebooks, and Surface devices—with Thunderbolt 5 certification to remove guesswork.

Thunderbolt 5 was designed to remove bottlenecks, and Envoy Ultra is a strong example of pairing that performance with massive capacity in a truly portable design.

Pricing and availability

The Envoy Ultra Thunderbolt 5 SSD line starts at $449.99, and the new 8TB model is available now for $1,699.99.

If you’ve loved the Envoy Ultra’s speed and portability but kept wishing for a bigger option that lets you carry your entire workflow—this is the drive you've been waiting for. The new 8TB Envoy Ultra is made for creators who want maximum Thunderbolt performance, serious capacity, and rugged reliability in a drive that’s ready to travel as hard as they do.

To learn more and order, visit: owc.com/solutions/envoy-ultra.