IRVINE, CA — Sonnet Technologies (www.sonnettech.com) brought its new Fusion Thunderbolt 3 PCIe flash drive – Windows Edition to this year’s NAB show in Las Vegas. The rugged, pocket-size solid-state storage device features a Thunderbolt 3 interface. Equipped with 512GBs of flash storage, the Fusion Thunderbolt 3 PCIe flash drive leverages the 40Gbps bandwidth of Thunderbolt 3 to deliver data transfer speeds up to 2100MB/s.
“When we introduced the original Fusion PCIe flash drive last year, it made history as the world’s fastest bus-powered, pocketable storage device,” says Robert Farnsworth, CEO of Sonnet Technologies. “And now, with its blazing-fast Thunderbolt 3 interface, the Fusion Thunderbolt 3 PCIe flash drive can sustain the ultra-high file transfer speeds required for just about any 4K workflow — whether users need an ultra-fast shuttle drive or a take-anywhere scratch drive for editing high frame rate 4K video at offsite shoots. The Fusion Thunderbolt 3 PCIe flash drive is a perfect example of how Thunderbolt 3 now offers the industry’s fastest and most versatile connection to any peripheral device.”
The new storage device connects to any compatible Windows computer (Windows 10 and 7), or at the end of a Thunderbolt 3 device daisy chain, via an attached 0.5-meter Thunderbolt 3 (40Gbps) cable. Based on the latest PCIe Gen 3 flash memory technology, the Fusion Thunderbolt 3 PCIe flash drive is able to achieve 400 percent of the performance of 6Gb/s SATA SSDs and USB 3.0 flash drives.
Measuring 2.8 inches wide by 4.1 inches deep by 1.25 inches tall, the Fusion PCIe flash drive features a rugged enclosure crafted out of aluminum, which helps cools the SSD and eliminate the need for a fan, resulting in silent operation. The power-efficient design is bus-powered and requires no AC power adapter.
The Fusion Thunderbolt 3 PCIe flash drive with 512GB capacity has an MSRP of $799.
