Transform your NAS into a Thunderbolt™ 3 NAS
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. Thunderbolt™ 4 devices can also be used by a NAS with a Thunderbolt™ 3 Expansion Cards when connected using standard Thunderbolt™ 4 certificated cables or passive Thunderbolt™ 3 cables shorter than 0.8 meters.
Streamlined Video Editing Collaboration
By using Thunderbolt™ 3 expansion cards, teamwork between Final Cut Pro® and Adobe Premiere Pro® users becomes faster and easier. With SMB protocol support, Final Cut Pro® 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
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).
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.
*Please note that Thunderbolt 2 connection speed will only be able to reach up to 20Gb/s.
QNAP Thunderbolt™ 3 Certified Cables
Use a certified Thunderbolt™ 3 40Gbps cable (with the Thunderbolt icon and “3”). Get the best cables for your work environment.
Note: If you connect a Thunderbolt™ 4 host to a Thunderbolt™ 3 NAS, you must use a Thunderbolt™ 4 certificated cable or a passive Thunderbolt™ 3 cable that is shorter than 0.8 meters.
QNAP Thunderbolt™ 3 Certified Cables
Use a certified Thunderbolt™ 3 40Gbps cable (with the Thunderbolt icon and “3”). Get the best cables for your work environment.
CAB-TBT305M-40G-LINTES |
CAB-TBT320M-40G-LINTES | |
| Length | 0.5m | 2m |
| Thunderbolt™ 4 | Supported | Not supported |
| Thunderbolt™ 3 | Supported | Supported |
Note: If you connect a Thunderbolt™ 4 host to a Thunderbolt™ 3 NAS, you must use a Thunderbolt™ 4 certificated cable or a passive Thunderbolt™ 3 cable that is shorter than 0.8 meters.
Compatible NAS models
Note: The QXP-T32P can only be installed in a PCIe Gen 3 x4 slot in the TVS-h1288X or TVS-h1688.
Note: The QXP-T32P can only be installed in a PCIe Gen 3 x4 slot in the TVS-h1288X or TVS-h1688.
