New Sonnet Thunderbolt PCIe box for RedRocket - Available !

[Tom.Wong]

The Magma does not support x16 slot....so that was a deal breaker for me....i think it's one x8 and two x4 slots on Magma box....these guys just don't get it....c'mon.

BUT all this T-bolt--one REALLY needs to figure out if you are maxing out your T-bolt thru-put....so might want to break things out over USB 3 as well. at 10gbs adding a raid card; graphics or I/O card and Redrocket one is probably maxed out and t-bolt can't handle all of that.

2 8x slot
1 4x slot


i don't believe there is enough bandwidth in a single TB port to support full 16x worth of bandwidth. rocket and sas cards only need a 8x slot. generally only gpu's really need 16x slots.

I've seen demos at NAB with the same magma I have with sas card to a 8 bay raid, with rocket and I/O card. it was downloading at full speed, and transcoding at near real time all at the same time, and could still play out of the i/o card with no hiccups. the slowest portion was the actual download from the redmag.

cards don't suck up all the bandwidth at once, it takes what it needs, a lot of the time it's nowhere close to what the maximum potential of the slot even has. There's a lot of play room to be had.