Sonnet ’s Fusion E400TBR5 .

More than a month after Apple ’s entry of Thunderbolt , a growing number ofperipheral manufacturersare unite the grocery store to utilize the feature . Sonnet Technologies joined the feat on Monday at theNAB Show , announcing a new dividing line of productsthat utilise the powerful fresh engineering .

LeadingSonnet ’s lineupis the Fusion series of warehousing system . The Fusion F2TBR is a portable unanimous - state drive unit of measurement with two Thunderbolt port wine that let a drug user relate up to six devices to a single port on the host MacBook Pro . The great Fusion E400TBR5 and Fusion D800TBR5 are four- and eight - drive RAID 5 storage units , respectively , and both also feature two Thunderbolt ports — the bigger D800TBR5 is slant to pro video editors and will make out with a five - yr store warrantee .

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Sonnet’s Fusion E400TBR5.

Sonnet has also announced the novel Echo Express PCIe 2.0 Expansion Chassis . The twist , which also features two Thunderbolt ports , let users connect high - performance PCI Express 2.0 adapter cards — including professional video capture plug-in , 8 GB Fibre Channel card , 10 GB Ethernet card , and RAID comptroller cards — to their computing machine .

At the simplest end of the spectrum are two new adapter . The Allegro FW800 Thunderbolt Adapter lets users connect FireWire 800 devices to their MacBook , while the Presto Gigabit Ethernet Thunderbolt Adapter does on the dot what it enunciate on the tin — allow users to snare their computer to a Gigabit Ethernet connection via the Thunderbolt interface .

Thunderbolt ( previously call Light Peak ) is a new peripheral - connection engineering science , developed byIntelwith collaboration from Apple , that combines information , television , audio , and power in a single connexion . Sonnet say its new Thunderbolt - enable devices will be on the mart this summertime ; pricing information is not yet useable .