Your Mac may be leaving bandwidth on the table

Uncap Your macOS Storage Performance:

Line-rate NAS throughput on macOS® with ATTO SMB Overdrive™

Your 8K timeline and VFX pipeline demand every MB/s your infrastructure can deliver. They haven't been getting it.

For years, macOS^® has surrendered measurable Ethernet bandwidth to SMB protocol overhead before a single byte of useful data moves — a persistent, compounding tax on every creative session.

To bridge this performance gap, ATTO developed

SMB Overdrive — a suite of driver-level optimizations built directly into our latest macOS drivers. By implementing modern SMB methods right at the driver layer, it eliminates software ceilings and protocol inefficiencies with zero user configuration required.

SMB Overdrive is available now via a single macOS driver that provides active, dual-path support across our premier connectivity portfolios:

ATTO FastFrame™ Ethernet NICs: Reached real-world reads exceeding 10,000 MB/s over ATTO FastFrame 100GbE SmartNICs in validation testing.
ATTO ThunderLink® Thunderbolt™ Ethernet Adapters: Achieved blazing-fast real-world reads exceeding 6,000 MB/s using Thunderbolt to 100GbE adapters.

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Key Benefits

Line-Rate NAS Throughput: Experience immediate, massive performance gains and maximize the throughput your infrastructure was built to deliver.
Zero-Configuration, Zero-Cost Deployment: SMB Overdrive is completely free and active by default in the current macOS driver release from ATTO. Simply update your driver to unlock immediate speed—no infrastructure or workflow changes are required.
End-to-End Optimization: Pair SMB Overdrive with ATTO360™ Networking software tuning profiles for system-level optimization across your entire storage network.