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expired Posted by turns2stone • Dec 25, 2024
Dec 25, 2024 6:14 AM
Select Stores: Western Digital WD Black D50 RGB Game Dock (Thunderbolt 3)
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We also have to thank Intel for HDCP whose sole purpose was to prevent some niche pirating that was not a huge problem. A shitty evil
Corp all around.
Thunderbolt 3 docks inherently have 40Gbps of combined throughput for the ports, whereas those USB-C dock have 10Gbps of bandwidth shared among all of the peripherals, including display. If you're really pushing the limits with simultaneous heavy use of a 4K display, 1Gbps LAN and and attached USB device, you're going to run out of bandwidth.
Even more importantly, those hubs either don't come with a charger, and/or don't support pass-through charging. A Thunderbolt dock does both. And the Kensington supports 60w vs. 87w on this Western Digital.
In summary, you're not comparing apples-to-apples for those (cheaper) USB-C docks. If you're using this D50 dock with a MacBook (or even Mac mini), you'll get two independent video outputs.
I realize you're probably on Windows, but if you bought any of those for use with a Mac, that 'dual HDMI' would literally get you two identical monitor outputs, mirrored to each other.
EDIT - clarifying extended monitor support/mirroring.
EDIT #2 - the other nice thing about the D50 (compared to the cheaper docks linked) is the ability to add/change to a longer cable to your laptop/PC. Most of the hubs have permanently-attached cables, and they're typically short to reduce the chance of signal degradation.
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This dock features extra storage, but also display out, extra USB ports, Ethernet, headphone/audio jacks… so, you leave your monitor or TV, keyboard & mouse, printer, home network, and any other USB peripherals you like attached to this. With one cable, you get all those things added to a laptop/tablet/Steam Deck. It's also great for families, offices, and schools; large files, videos and media, or apps can be loaded onto the storage, and this makes it easy to serve presentations or collaborate on projects. It will also recharge your portable device without needing to have a wall adapter in your case. I also like the idea of mounting this somewhere out of sight… so you just have the one USB cable above the desk and clutter cleared, so the desk is open for whatever current task you face.
Is the WD stable / runs without getting hot without using the internal SSD storage in the base model?
Thanks for your input! Cheers!
We also have to thank Intel for HDCP whose sole purpose was to prevent some niche pirating that was not a huge problem. A shitty evil
Corp all around.
edit: would be nice to see Apple taken down as well. Abject greed and screwing over customers for years with planned obsolescence should have consequences.
This dock features extra storage, but also display out, extra USB ports, Ethernet, headphone/audio jacks… so, you leave your monitor or TV, keyboard & mouse, printer, home network, and any other USB peripherals you like attached to this. With one cable, you get all those things added to a laptop/tablet/Steam Deck. It's also great for families, offices, and schools; large files, videos and media, or apps can be loaded onto the storage, and this makes it easy to serve presentations or collaborate on projects. It will also recharge your portable device without needing to have a wall adapter in your case. I also like the idea of mounting this somewhere out of sight… so you just have the one USB cable above the desk and clutter cleared, so the desk is open for whatever current task you face.
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• Bandwidth sharing can occur when multiple USB devices are connected to a single Thunderbolt 4 hub.
• In this case, USB devices connected to the hub share a single 10 Gbps USB controller available through that port.
• However, PCIe devices, DisplayPort video streams, and Thunderbolt devices operate on separate data paths.
There are some NVMe drives that have controller issues that can stumble and cap out at ~1,000MB/s via Thunderbolt, so it may take some experimentation and patience to get the full performance.
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Originally going to buy plug able thunderbolt hub
https://a.co/d/9YWYY8M
Three 40gb thunderbolt 4 downstream ports is still nice
Vs 1 on the dock and the others are 10gb
Then one of these enclosures with ssd for Time Machine backups
https://a.co/d/bOEjjbQ
So the $50 dock that puts both these things in one package with some caveats seems appealing.. still on the fence as the reviews seem hit OK but I feel like most complaints might be around it being non functional without an ssd in it or video issues
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