Sonnet Technologies has announced the Echo 13 Thunderbolt 5 SSD Dock. The headlining feature of this dock is that it can accommodate a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD and facilitate 6,100 MB/s data transfers. Sonnet claims it will be the first to ship a dock with this mix of performance and features (it boasts many other ports). The Echo 13 will be available “in limited quantities” starting this month.
Sonnet is a long-time Apple Mac hardware accessories maker. The timing of this hardware release is convenient for Mac M4 users who have recently upgraded and gained access to machines with Thunderbolt 5 ports. It says this device should also be suitable for iPad Pro, Windows, and even Chromebook computers with Thunderbolt 5 and 4 and USB4. Using the older, slower standards will mean reduced performance, but it seems like no functionality will be missing.
