Sonnet Echo 13 Thunderbolt 5 SSD Dock – Integrated 6600MB/s NVMe Storage, 4 Thunderbolt 5 Ports, 2.5Gb Ethernet, 8K Display – Mac, Windows, Chromebook, iPad Pro (4TB Kingston PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD)

Excellent! Just what I needed for my Mac min M4 Pro! Adding the 4TB of super fast storage is cheaper than buying an comparable external drive or even just the NVMe. As I mentioned, it is incredibly fast. Using Black Magic, the internal storage tested out at 6GB/sec. I partitioned it out into two drives and encrypted one of them. I expect to lose quite a bit of speed from this, but i was still able to get 5800MB/sec throughput. The only other drive I've seen that is this fast is the OWC Envoy Ultra... and it costs twice what this does and doesn't give you all the extra goodies. All of the connections work, at the speed they are advertised. I connected it to my MacBook Pro and then to my LG 5K Monitor, and it worked without a hitch. All expected resolutions were there. It also provided plenty of power to charge my MacBook Pro. Solidly built. I'm not worried about handling it with kid gloves. I love that it gives me 3 additional Thunderbolt ports, and also provides all of the extra ports and connections I need, like the SD card reader and none of the stuff I'd never use. For my use case, this is perfect.

I purchased this dock to use with my 2024 16” M4Max MacBook Pro because it had the best combination of Integrated 6000MB/s NVMe Storage (1TB, 2TB, or 4TB), high speed data transfers to other Thunder Bolt 5 devices (and compatibly with TB4 and TB3. It is a full featured Docking Station, with a quiet fan for cooling the SSD. It will charge a laptop at up to 140 watts. The dock was installed in April 2025 and has worked without a problem since. I use it with a 27" Studio monitor and a 32" LG Monitor. It works fine with the MBP 16" screen in the mix as well. I recently installed a second, identical device for an older Intel MBP (TB3) in place of its older dock. This is in preparation for another new MBP to replace the Intel MBP. I anticipate that the upgrade will require swapping the TB3 computer cable for the new TB5 computer and then do the transfer from the old computer to the new one. If you are looking for an excellent high-end dock, this is one to consider!

Installed my new Echo 13 TB as a back up for my Mac Mini M4 Pro via TB 5 cable. Black Magic Speed test show write speed around 5180 MB/s and read about 4504 MB/s (see pic). It is ever so slightly warm to the touch. Don't know if the fan runs much, I can't hear it. When I backed up my mini with 1.19 TB on it using Carbon Cloner, the first 600 to 700 GB went really fast (I didn't even look until about the 2 minute mark). But thereafter it throttled quite a bit to around 400 Mb/s for the next 600 MB, yeah real slow. The whole 1.19 TB transferred in 26 m 49 s. In comparison, my old Seagate 2TB usb 3.0 hard drive took 5 hr and 19 m. My 5 TB Seagate usb 3.0 hard drive took 4 hr 15 m. I believe my Corsair USB 4 SSD drive took about 40 min. So daily backups now take just about 11 s for 4.2 GB with the Echo. One nit, when I plugged my Logitech mouse bluetooth dongle into the rear usb c 5Gps port, some times the mouse movement was a bit jerky. Not so when the dongle is plugged into my TB 4 Dell monitor connected to my mini or to my mac mini via an adapter. Lots of ports now and real speed unless you have a really huge transfer.

Just received this very expensive dock and the thunderbolt 5 cable was not in the box. Now I have to spend even more money for a cable!!! Send me the cable and I’ll update my review! They sent the cable and all is well👍. The Echo 13 is working wonderfully

I have gone through many docking stations with my previous Intel-based MBP to the point where one company was sending me their new docking stations to get my feedback. My last docking station was the Razer docking station. It was pretty good but suffered from being underpowered, causing one of my two external monitors to go black for a few seconds a couple of times per hour. After getting the latest M4-based MBP, the Razer docking station just wasn’t cutting it so I splurged for the Echo 13. No more black screens, must faster network (2.5 Gbps vs 1 Gbps), and the internal M.2 SSD provides super fast data transfer!

I bought one directly from Sonnet Tech I used Apple M4 Max MacBook Pro with 128GB RAM and 8TB SSD for this review. While all 4 Thunderbolt 5 ports work fine and at advertised speeds, typically 4500 to nearly 6000 Read and Write using Blackmagic App, the other 4 USB 3.2 ports keep disconnecting, possibily endangering data in attached storage devices. I hope SonnetTech comes out with a firmware update to allow for operation for all devices, as advertised by the manufacturer.

Das Thunderbolt 5 Dock ist qualitativ super. Es wird im SSD Betrieb nicht warm und arbeitet einwandfrei. Die Daten stimmen annähernd. Wider der Beschreibung lässt sich die SSD aus dem Gehäuse völlig unproblematisch mit einem Kreuzschlitz Schraubendreher demontieren und damit austauschen. Dank eines informativen Videos von YouTube. Ein anderer Mitbewerber hat da optisch ein ähnliches Produkt, welches tatsächlich aus komplett Aluminium gefertigt wurde, und es ist auch tatsächlich nur 200 € billiger, hat aber keine SSD verbaut. Ein dritter Anbieter, der im Gaming Bereich ansässig ist, bietet auch eine Dockingstation beim selben Format an, indem man auch unproblematisch. Eine entsprechende NVMe es ist die einbauen kann. Diese zeigte aber wohlweislich in diversen Foren Grafikprobleme bei angeschlossenen Monitoren… ich habe keinerlei Probleme

Excellent product. Now Time machine backup takes only few minutes.