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. Streamlined Video Editing CollaborationBy 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 ScenariosDaisy-chain up to 6 QNAP Thunderbolt devicesA 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).Connect legacy devicesWhen 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.
| Ports & interfaces | |
| Host interface: | PCIe |
| Output interface: | Thunderbolt 3 |
| Expansion card form factor: | Full-height / Low-profile |
| Expansion card standard: | PCIe 3.0 |
| Thunderbolt 3 ports quantity: | 2 |
| Design | |
| Internal: |  |
| Purpose: | NAS / Storage server |
| Packaging data | |
| Quantity: | 1 |
| Mounting brackets included: | |
| Logistics data | |
| Harmonized System (HS) code: | 84733020 |
