The Thunderbolt 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. Thunderbolt 4 devices can also be used by a NAS with a Thunderbolt 3 Expansion Cards when connected using standard Thunderbolt 4 certificated cables or passive Thunderbolt 3 cables shorter than 0.8 meters.
By using Thunderbolt 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.
A NAS with a Thunderbolt 3 expansion card can be daisy-chained with up to 6 QNAP Thunderbolt devices, including other QNAP Thunderbolt NAS and Thunderbolt 3 to 10GbE Adapter (QNA Series).
When used with an Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 adapter* (sold by Apple), legacy Thunderbolt 2 MacBook can be connected to your Thunderbolt 3 NAS for sharing files and accessing centralized data. *Please note that Thunderbolt 2 connection speed will only be able to reach up to 20Gb/s.
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