Sonnet has introduced a brand new SSD dock that’s constructed for storage and connectivity. The Echo Twin NVMe Thunderbolt Dock brings compatibility with M1 Macs, the iPad Professional, and PCs and may be geared up with as much as 16TB of SSD storage.
There isn’t a scarcity of choices in terms of desktop peripherals that broaden the usability of each Mac and PC computer systems and Sonnet’s new Echo Thunderbolt Dock seems like one other strong possibility to think about, particularly if entry to quite a lot of SSD storage is a should.
On the entrance of Sonnet’s dock are two USB Sort-C ports, one USB Sort-A port, and a Thunderbolt 3 port. On the again is one other USB-Sort A port and one other Thunderbolt 3 port in addition to a Kensington lock slot.
Sonnet describes the 2 40Gbps Thunderbolt ports as follows: one port is designed to be the connection to a pc, the opposite exists to permit the dock to daisy chain as much as 5 extra Thunderbolt peripheral gadgets plus a show. The Thunderbolt peripheral port affords 10Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 assist and offers as much as 15W of charging functionality.
Talking of charging, the USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports assist as much as 7.5 watts of charging and may entry the SSDs are full velocity.
Whereas it does function as a dock, the Sonnet Echo leans extra closely into its storage capability. IT options two M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD slots that interface with the dock’s Thunderbolt controller to supply as much as 1,500 MB/s single-speed efficiency and as much as 3,000 MB/s RAID 0 efficiency when each ports are utilized. When not in a RAID 0 configuration, the SSDs will seem as unbiased accessible drives, which implies that customers don’t have to match capacities in the event that they wish to begin with one SSD and improve it with a second later.
The Sonnet Echo Thunderbolt Dock has energetic cooling, a design alternative that can present higher air circulation and warmth sinking than competitor gadgets like the Sabrent Thunderbolt Dock whereas sustaining lots of the latter system’s promoting factors. In PetaPixel’s evaluation, the Sabrent Dock carried out admirably in most circumstances, however had problem working correclty with RAID 0 configuration and exhibited some warmth sinking points.
Sonnet’s providing seems to deal with each these points, and the corporate particularly says that RAID 0 configuration is supported on M1 computer systems in addition to Home windows-based PCs.
Just like the Sabrent Dock, Sonnet’s Echo additionally makes use of Thunderbolt 3. Sonnet features a Thunderbolt cable that helps Thunderbolt’s full 40Gbps bandwidth and it’s totally suitable with Thunderbolt 4 and Thunderbolt 3 computer systems. The corporate has additionally produced a video that explains why it chooses to make use of Thunderbolt 3 as a substitute of Thunderbolt 4 in all of its merchandise.
Not like Sabrent’s resolution, Sonnet doesn’t provide its dock with any storage — consumers must supply their very own. The corporate has printed a complete compatibility chart for which SSDs will work with the Echo, and the Sabrent 8TB Rocket Q SSDs are included on that checklist. The Sonnet Echo Twin NVMe Thunderbolt Dock is out there for $350.
