Product Review

Are you in the market for a new computer? It's amazing how much processing power the latest ultra-light notebooks, small form factor computers, and all-in-one desktop computers pack in such small and thin enclosures. But, thinness comes with a cost-there's nowhere for you to install PCIE cards for the additional connectivity and processing capabilities beyond what's offered by a computer's standard ports. Although thin mac and windows computers with thunder bolt 3 ports offer processing power to spare, for many, such as pros in the creative fields, onboard processing power alone is not enough. Fortunately, your choices are not limited to desktop workstations-think external. With the echo express se I - thunder bolt 3 edition, sonnet has created a solution that enables you to connect a single PCIE card outside of your computer. This compact desktop thunder bolt 3-to-PCIE card expansion system supports one professional video capture, audio interface, 6gb or 12gb SAS or SATA host bus adapter, 8gb or 16gb fiber channel, 10gb or 40gb Ethernet, or raid controller PCIE card, and connects it to your computer through a thin cable. The echo express se I - thunderbolt 3 edition features 40 gbps thunderbolt 3, which offers double the PCIE bandwidth and connectivity of thunderbolt 2, and yields up to 2750 mb/s of bandwidth, enabling it to support 4k video capture and processing cards at high frame rates, and 16gb fc cards and dual-port 10 Gbe cards at full performance(2)(3).