OWC Mercury Helios 3S

Use PCIe cards with your Thunderbolt 3 Mac & Windows PC

• Lightning-fast 40Gb/s transfer speeds: (2) Thunderbolt 3 ports (Thunderbolt 2/Thunderbolt compatible)1
• See more: DisplayPort 1.4 for connecting up to an 8K display
• Charge while working: 85W of notebook charging
• Secure workflow: locking 12V power connector
• Maximum potential: daisy-chain up to 5 additional Thunderbolt devices
• Easy card installs: no tools required

The OWC Mercury Helios 3S is an easy to use yet powerful expansion solution that adds an external PCIe slot to your Thunderbolt 3 equipped computer. Now you can maximize your existing PCIe card investment — or expand it! — while enjoying the flexibility of adding professional-class video production, transcoding, audio processing, data storage, and high-speed network connectivity to your machine.

Instead of buying one or more function-dedicated Thunderbolt interface devices, you can use Mercury Helios 3S like a dock for multiple PCIe cards. Capture incredibly high-quality audio with a PCIe audio card and then retask Helios 3S with a PCIe SSD card to edit and archive tracks. You can swap cards in minutes, adding a new level of flexibility to your workflow.

With dual 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3 (Thunderbolt 2/Thunderbolt backward compatible), the Mercury Helios 3S offers the bandwidth needed to support data-intensive 4K capture cards to speed up diverse video workflows such as vlogging. Boost your DAW with external DSP acceleration and run larger mixes with multiple plug-ins. Livestream the action in your gaming sessions or share files over a 10GbE or Fibre Channel network without any speed throttling.

No special software or drivers needed...just plug the Mercury Helios 3S into an open Thunderbolt 3 port on your computer with the included cable to immediately expand your system capabilities.
No tools required either...just remove two thumb screws and insert a card to start enjoying productivity gains wherever your work takes you.

Notes

- The Mercury Helios 3S can deliver up to 85W of power for host charging when the host is connect to the 85W port.
- If the PCIe card installed uses more than 25W of power, plug in the power adapter to your host.
- You can use the Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter from Apple to connect this device to a Thunderbolt 2 computer. Power Delivery is not supported in this configuration and bandwidth will be limited to ~ 1375 MB/s.
- Full DisplayPort 1.4 capabilities including 8K resolution depends on host computer support of DisplayPort 1.4 specification through its Thunderbolt 3 connection, host computer GPU capabilities, and connecting cable capabilities.