Sonnet Echo II DV Silver Steel 2

Sonnet Echo II DV Rackmount 2-Slot Thunderbolt to PCIe Expansion System ECHO-2RDV-TB3

Computers such as the Mac Studio and other M series Macs have Thunderbolt/USB4 ports each driven by its own Thunderbolt bus. The Echo II DV Rackmount exploits this by connecting two full-length (up to 12.28 in) PCIe 3.0 card slots, each with its own Thunderbolt interface, via two cables, so two bandwidth-hungry DV I/O cards can work in one enclosure with up to double the bandwidth for double the video channels.

For maximum performance with more than one bandwidth-hungry card, such as the DeckLink 8K, it must be connected to two Thunderbolt ports on the computer; with only one port available, the two interfaces can be daisy-chained using one of the supplied cables. It supports power-hungry non-GPU cards such as the AJA Kona 5 and Blackmagic DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G and powers on and off automatically with the computer.

Key features

• Two x16 PCIe 3.0 slots for full-height, full-length single-width cards, each at full bandwidth
• Independent Thunderbolt connection to each slot
• Built-in 400 W power supply with 2 x 75 W auxiliary connectors
• Dual temperature-controlled Noctua fans rated at 17 dBA
• 40 Gbps Thunderbolt: 3000 MB/s PCIe bandwidth with Thunderbolt 4 computers, 2570 MB/s with Thunderbolt 3
• Compatible with Apple M series and Intel Thunderbolt 4/3 computers

In the box

• 1 x Echo II DV rackmount
• 2 x Thunderbolt cables
• 2 x ThunderLok 3 retainer clips

Specifications

• Enclosure: steel, rackmount
• Colour: silver