Sonnet has announced the Fusion PCIe Flash Drive, a rugged, pocket-size solid-state drive (SSD) storage device with 256GB or 512GB storage capacity. The Sonnet flash drive serves as an faster alternative to USB thumb drives and portable SATA-based hard disk drive and SSD storage products, and it connects at the end of a Thunderbolt device daisy chain, by way of an attached 0.5-meter Thunderbolt cable.
Sonnet designed the Fusion PCIe Flash Drive around the latest generation M.2 PCIe SSD module and a 20Gbps Thunderbolt 2 interface that provides the bandwidth necessary for the device to sustain file transfer speeds sufficient to support 4K workflows. Capable of transferring files at over 1200 MB/s, the Fusion PCIe Flash Drive’s SSD module incorporates a PCIe Gen 3 flash controller, enabling the device to significantly outperform 6Gbps SATA SSDs and USB 3.0 flash drives.
Sonnet expects to make the new drive available in June 2015 at an suggested retail price of $499 for 256GB and $799 for 512GB.
