New Sonnet Echo 13 SSD Dock. Picture supply: Sonnet
Sonnet has a brand new Thunderbolt 5 dock with 4 TB5 ports and an inner PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD slot that’ll work along with your current M-series Macs and guarantee future compatibility with greater speeds.
Thunderbolt 5 is contemporary to the market, and Sonnet did not waste any time getting the Echo 13 SSD Dock to the market. It provides loads of ports and SSD storage as much as 4TB to your Mac.
For the reason that Echo 13 SSD Dock is Thunderbolt 5 and is provided with 4 Thunderbolt 5 ports, it’s future-proofed for when firms like Apple embrace the spec. The ultra-fast spec permits bi-directional knowledge bandwidth of 80Gbps, so assist for 2 8K shows is enabled on merchandise that enable it.
Two of the downstream Thunderbolt 5 ports present 15W every for charging and bus-powered gadget operation, whereas the third supplies 60W.
Along with the TB5 ports, customers get 4 USB 3.2 Kind A ports, a 2.5Gb Ethernet port, a 3.5mm headphone jack, SD, and microSD card slots. The linked Mac or PC will get as much as 140W charging energy and 120Gbps of video bandwidth.
Of the 4 USB-A ports, three are 10Gbps, and one is 5Gbps. The 10Gbps ports additionally embrace 7.5W of energy that work even when the linked pc is powered off.
Sonnet additionally included a built-in PCIe 4.0 NVMe slot that helps M.2 SSDs with as much as 6,100 MB/s knowledge transfers. Customers can configure the dock with a 1TB, 2TB, or 4TB Kingston SSD.
The Sonnet Echo 13 SSD Dock has loads of ports and an M.2 slot. Picture supply: Sonnet
“The Echo 13 SSD Dock is only the start of our Thunderbolt 5 journey,” stated Robert Farnsworth, CEO of Sonnet Applied sciences. “We’re excited to ship merchandise that absolutely leverage the pace and adaptability of this next-generation know-how.”
Get the Echo 13 Thunderbolt 5 SSD Dock with 4TB of storage beginning in January with larger provide arriving in mid-March alongside the opposite storage choices. The 4TB mannequin is $669.99, the 2TB mannequin is $499.99, and the 1TB mannequin is $399.99.
