NAB: Akitio Unveils Thunderbolt 3 Line-up Storage Systems

Akitio announced at the NAB show several products to their already Thunderbolt 3 line-up.

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These products include a Thunderbolt 3 10GbE docking station, an 8-bay hardware RAID enclosure, a dual-slot PCIe box, and a RED camera Mini-Mag reader. These products are for the content creator audience at NAB who have an appetite for fast, scalable storage and connectivity options to optimize workflow.

The Thunder3 Dock Pro features a 10GbE port, a DisplayPort port, three USB 3.1 ports, an eSATA port, an SD card reader, a C-Fast card reader, and two Thunderbolt 3 ports for daisy chaining. The Thunderbolt 3 ports provide 60W of Power Delivery (PD).

Storage creators will love the 8-bay OTTO, a 2.5″/3.5″ drive enclosure that features a slot for a SAS/SATA controller card, thereby allowing it to be ordered either with hardware RAID SAS or with the non-RAID SATA options. It also features a DisplayPort port and two Thunderbolt 3 ports for daisy chaining. It will provide 60W of PD).

The Node Duo is a dual-slot PCIe box with a Display Port and two Thunderbolt 3 ports. It was designed for use with two PCIe cards, making it for creative professionals to add more than one card to their setup. The Node Duo also features 60W of PD.

The REDÒ Camera Mini-Mag Reader was designed to be installed into a drive bay of a 4-bay Thunder3 Quad X or the 8-bay Thunder3 OTTO. It will be available with special company’s Data Multiplier software that will allow the content stored on the RED Mini-Mag to be copied and backed up to the other blank drives installed in either the Quad X or OTTO. The software will backup/copy to either three (Quad X) or seven (Otto) drives in the same amount of time that it typically takes to backup to one single drive.

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The firm’s Everest software also allows users to capture screenshots from RED RAW (R3D) clips for an easier and more convenient media workflow. These products will become a part of the group of Thunderbolt 3 products already on the market, which includes the RAID Station, Quad X, Quad Mini, 10G Network Adapter, Node, Node Lite and Node Pro.

These products are expected to be available during the first half of 2018, with pricing to be announced shortly.