Introduction

The ThunderboltT 3 Expansion Card enables high-speed data transfer to accelerate everyday tasks and applications. Video editing studios in particular can greatly benefit by being able to smoothly transfer, display and edit 4K videos in real-time. ThunderboltT 4 devices can also be used by a NAS with a ThunderboltT 3 Expansion Cards when connected using standard ThunderboltT 4 certificated cables or passive ThunderboltT 3 cables shorter than 0.8 meters.

Streamlined Video Editing Collaboration
By using ThunderboltT 3 expansion cards, teamwork between Final Cut Pro® and Adobe Premiere Pro® users becomes faster and easier. With SMB protocol support, Final Cut Pro® users can create a library on a NAS volume and use it as if it were a local storage device. Every team member can centrally store video resources in the same NAS shared folder, greatly improving productivity for highly-collaborative projects in multi-workstation environments.

ThunderboltT 3 Expansion Card Usage Scenarios

Daisy-chain up to 6 QNAP ThunderboltT devices
A NAS with a ThunderboltT 3 expansion card can be daisy-chained with up to 6 QNAP ThunderboltT devices, including other QNAP ThunderboltT NAS and Thunderbolt 3 to 10GbE Adapter (QNA Series).

Connect legacy devices
When used with an Apple ThunderboltT 3 (USB-C) to ThunderboltT 2 adapter* (sold by Apple), legacy ThunderboltT 2 MacBook can be connected to your ThunderboltT 3 NAS for sharing files and accessing centralized data.

Ports & interfaces

Host interface

PCIe

Output interface

Thunderbolt 3

Expansion card form factor

Full-height / Low-profile

Expansion card standard

PCIe 3.0

Thunderbolt 3 ports quantity

2

Design

Internal

Y

Purpose

NAS / Storage server

Packaging data

Quantity

1

Mounting brackets included

Y