Eight drive bays: use a mix of SATA/SAS and U.2/M.2 NVMe drives for for virtually limitless capacity and real world speeds up to 2750MB/s,Future ready: top four bays can use U.2 SSDs...the emerging M&E industry storage standard,Powerfully easy RAID: create, manage, and monitor advanced RAID sets with SoftRAID,Do more: second Thunderbolt 3 port for daisy chaining devices or additional display(s),Connect more: (1) USB-C and (2) USB-A 10Gb/s ports for peripherals and mobile devices,See more: DisplayPort 1.4 for connecting up to an 8K display,Fast media ingest: front-side SD 4.0 and CFexpress card readers with up to 985MB/s speed,Play your card: (1) PCIe slot for audio/video capture, networking, SSD storage, hardware RAID card, or I/O card