ThunderLink® - Thunderbolt™ Storage Adapters Thunderbolt™ Adapters

Delivering creative, engineering and technical professionals a high performance and low latency Thunderbolt™ connectivity solution engineered for applications where optimized performance and high throughput are essential. ThunderLink® adapters enable today's Thunderbolt enabled desktop and mobile workstations to connect into high performance storage or networks.

ThunderLink devices support hot-plug and daisy chaining!

Purpose-built with your design needs in mind

Meet demands for increased portability, decreased footprint and noise-sensitive environments with a low profile, cool, ultra-quiet device. ThunderLink adapters are simple to stack, easy to install and are designed to integrate seamlessly into existing infrastructures. The ability to hot-plug and full support of daisy-chaining allows you to reconfigure on-the-fly and empowers scalability as workgroups grow.
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The Most Powerful Solution

ATTO has developed over 20 different Thunderbolt adapters and is an original member of the Thunderbolt developer community since the technology’s inception. Every ThunderLink adapter design incorporates a deep understanding of the intricacies of Thunderbolt, storage protocols and media workflows to deliver the most powerful connectivity solution available on the market.

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Locking Power Supply

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Thunderbolt Ports

SFPs

Spend less time managing equipment and more time creating

Trust your units are powered, ready-to-go and have uninterrupted power with locking power supplies. Now shipping with every Thunderbolt adapter, Kensington™ Security Slots provide a simple solution for studios, offices and educational facilities, allowing units to be easily secured to a fixed location.

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It's time to watch your throughput grow

Finally combat compressed schedules and allow for more time creating high-quality deliverables by optimizing performance, up to 2750MB/s for Thunderbolt™ 3. Smooth and reliable data delivery via ATTO Advanced Data Streaming (ADS™) technology allows you to maintain the highest consistent performance while working with HD, 2K, 4K and higher formats.

Disrupted transfer with peaks and drops. Transfer rate dips below optimal performance levels.

ATTO ADS™ technology stabilizes data streams, providing more optimal throughput than the competition.

Build out a workflow the way you need it

Expand your connectivity choices with the widest portfolio of Thunderbolt adapters across Fibre Channel, Ethernet and SAS and 4X more interoperable components than the closest competitors. Any needed optics (SFP+, QSFP+) are already included and rigorously tested to ensure compatability and data integrity. Mac and Windows Thunderbolt certification enables collaborative workflows and the only Thunderbolt adapter certified with VMware ESXi allows deployments of a one-of-a-kind solution for test and development environments.

Widest portfolio available of tested and certified solution components including storage systems, switches, hosts and software applications

Thunderbolt Solutions have never been easier

Improve overall workflow efficiencies using ATTO MultiPath Director™ drivers for Fibre Channel by providing uninterrupted and consistent data by enabling load balancing and failover. ATTO ConfigTool™ provides an easy to use, yet powerful GUI for customizing, managing and optimizing your products. Backed by our extensive history and expertise in connectivity solutions, if any issues do arise, we have an on-site support team ready to diagnose technical issues and resolve them in a timely manner.
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Protocol Expertise

ATTO Thunderbolt adapters are backed by a 30 year history in storage and network connectivity. Complementary hardware, NICs and HBAs, and software products varying across all protocols help create a single source connectivity solutions. Only ATTO, is able to offer the widest portfolio of Thunderbolt adapters paired with a comprehensive depth of Ethernet, Fibre Channel and SAS/SATA protocol expertise.

Protocol expertise has led to the development of an exclusive set of tools to help optimize our drivers for various environments. Atnetstat, for example, helps provide statistics to aid in diagnostics for Ethernet environments. Monitoring with atnetstat will display lower layer, frame level statistics. This distinct layering framework provides a structured approach to help in tuning and identifying opportunities for performance enhancement.