Thunderbolt-Sonnet’s Echo™ Express PCIe 2.0 Expansion Chassis with Thunderbolt™ Ports

[Barry Johns]

Am I to understand you can put an HD1 pcie card in this an example and connect via Thunderbolt?

http://www.sonnettech.com/news/pr201...underbolt.html

[nst7]

Yes. Or an HD Native card. Assuming this works, it will be a great thing. And I've asked a few questions on the phone with these guys. One appealing thing is that the last I heard it will be an MSRP of $499, which means it will be even less through dealers. Way better than Magma's prices.

[Recallbeats]

depending on the card size, maybe the hd core will fit to this box. Unfortunetly only do 1 Pcie slot...

[nst7]

The write-up says it will be available in half-length and full length, both with cooling fans and power supplies.

[Dizzi45Z]

I bet if they made a PCI version of this, you would have a lot of happy Pro Tools HD users.

Recalibeats, how did you find out it only does 1 PCIe slot? It would be great if it could do 3 or more.

Heck... Why doesn't Avid ever consider making stuff like this? It would satisfy many more of their customers and make them some extra cash.

[zakco]

Originally Posted by Dizzi45Z

Why doesn't Avid ever consider making stuff like this? It would satisfy many more of their customers and make them some extra cash.

If Avid made this it would cost $5k instead of $500.

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by Firechild

The thunderbolt bandwidth is not enough for 6 PCIe cards.
Thunderbolt will be fine for up to 2 PCIe cards.

Meaning, I still want a brand new AVID single PCIe Accel card with "HD5" power, compatible with my existing PCIe core card...

What are you basing this on? Current Thunderbolt implementations essentially remote 4 x PCIe 2.0 (bidirectional) lanes. Enough to trivially demultiplex and drive four individual HD PCIe single lane cards.

Darryl

[XmenX]

From what I heard, Magma has finally made the announcement that thier Thunderbolt Expansion Unit has been approved / certified by Intel.
Magma is now shipping a fully certified Thunderbolt Expansion chassis.


http://www.youtube.com/MagmaExpansion

[KMcK]

Just to update this thread -

The Sonnet Echo Express single-slot version works with the HD Native card and PTHD 10.2 really well on 10.7.4. No additional drivers needed other than installing PTHD 10.2.

The OWC "Helios" enclosure which is essentially the same thing but cheaper and more compact also works fine with HD Native + PTHD 10.2.

[Spydog1985]

Originally Posted by KMcK

Just to update this thread -

The Sonnet Echo Express single-slot version works with the HD Native card and PTHD 10.2 really well on 10.7.4. No additional drivers needed other than installing PTHD 10.2.

The OWC "Helios" enclosure which is essentially the same thing but cheaper and more compact also works fine with HD Native + PTHD 10.2.

Thank you! are there any comparable positives to either noise wise or any other significant factor?