With a pricey speedster of an Intel Optane SSD bundled inside, Akitio's racing-red Node Lite PCI Express enclosure fills an elite niche: lightning-fast external storage for a laptop or small desktop.
With its wealth of ports, the Akitio Thunder3 RAID Station is both a connectivity hub and a capacious external hard drive for multimedia content creators.
The Akitio Thunder3 PCIe SSD is Windows-only and insanely expensive, but you'd be hard pressed to find another external drive that can match its speed.
With Thunderbolt and USB 3.0, Akitio's 1TB ThunderGo external hard drive is a decent choice if you often shift between Mac and Windows systems.