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.

Streamlined Video Editing Collaboration
By using Thunderbolt 3 expansion cards, teamwork between Final Cut Pr and Adobe Premiere Pr users becomes faster and easier. With SMB protocol support, Final Cut Pr 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.

Thunderbolt 3 Expansion Card Usage Scenarios

Daisy-chain up to 6 QNAP Thunderbolt devices
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).

Connect legacy devices
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.

Ports & interfaces

• Host interface: PCIe
• Output interface: Thunderbolt 3
• Expansion card form factor: Full-height / Low-profile
• Expansion card standard: PCIe 3.0
• Thunderbolt 3 ports quantity: 2

Packaging data

• Quantity: 1
• Mounting brackets included: Yes

Design

• Internal: Yes
• Purpose: NAS / Storage server

Logistics data

• Harmonized System (HS) code: 84733020