The Thunderbolt™ 3 expansion card enables high-speed data transfer to speed up tasks and applications. Video editing studios can especially benefit from the enhanced real-time transmission, display and editing of 4K video. Thunderbolt™ 4 devices can also be used with a NAS equipped with a Thunderbolt™ 3 expansion card and require a standard Thunderbolt™ 4 certified cable or a passive Thunderbolt™ 3 cable shorter than 0.8 meters to connect.

Advanced multi-user video editing
Thunderbolt™ 3 expansion cards make teamwork between Final Cut Pro® and Adobe Premiere Pro® users faster and easier. With support for the SMB protocol, Final Cut Pro® users can create a directory on a NAS volume and use it as if it were a local storage device. Team members can centrally store video files in the same shared NAS folder, significantly improving the efficiency of team projects in multi-workstation environments.

Connect up to 6 QNAP Thunderbolt™ devices
NAS with Thunderbolt™ 3 expansion card can connect up to 6 QNAP Thunderbolt™ devices, including additional QNAP Thunderbolt™ NAS systems and Thunderbolt 3 to 10 GbE adapters (QNA series).

Connect older devices
With the Apple Thunderbolt™ 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt™ 2 Adapter* (sold by Apple), your old Thunderbolt™ 2 MacBook can be connected to a Thunderbolt™ 3 NAS for file sharing and centralized data access.