Sonnet Echo III Desktop: A Three-Card Thunderbolt 3 Box
Sonnet has introduced one of the first Thunderbolt 3 expansion enclosures that supports up to three full-height PCIe 3.0 expansion slots. The three-port Echo III is designed for professionals in a variety of environments, so it can accommodate a graphics card, a high-end SSD, an audio or video accelerator, or a 10GbE network card.
For demanding professionals
Modern laptops and all-in-ones can provide general-purpose CPU power sufficient not only for productivity and entertainment tasks, but also for professional applications. What they don't offer are expansion slots for cards required for professional workloads. However, they do have Thunderbolt 3 ports and can therefore work with external expansion enclosures. The vast majority of these types of enclosures are designed for one or two cards which may be good enough for gamers, but may not be sufficient for professionals who create digital content such as video, 3D, etc.
3 full height slots
Sonnet's Echo III Desktop chassis can accommodate up to three full-height (FHFL) add-in cards that consume no more than 400W combined. The chassis features one PCIe 3.0 x16 mechanical slot (x8 electrical), one x8 mechanical slot (x8 electrical), and one x8 mechanical slot (x4 electrical).
Features
To ensure that the cards operate at stable performance and do not overheat, the chassis is equipped with two Noctua NF-R8 redux-1800 fans that produce noise of up to 17.1 dbA. The box has two Thunderbolt 3 ports, one for input and one additional for daisy-chaining an additional TB3 device or display.
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