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expiredturns2stone posted Dec 25, 2024 6:14 AM

Select Stores: Western Digital WD Black D50 RGB Game Dock (Thunderbolt 3)

$50

$80

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& More In-Store Purchase Onlyat Micro Center
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Micro Center has select Western Digital WD Black Game Docks (Thunderbolt 3 Connectivity) for the prices listed. In-store purchase only.

Note: Availability for pickup may vary by location.

Thanks to Community Member turns2stone and SD Moderator Mbilo for finding this deal.

Available:Features (D50):
  • Multi-Port Gaming Connectivity
  • 2 x Thunderbolt 3
  • 1 x DisplayPort 1.4
  • 2 x 10 Gb/s USB Type-C
  • 3 x 10 Gb/s USB Type-A
  • 1 x 3.5mm Audio Input/Output
  • 1 x Gigabit Ethernet
  • Up to 87W of Passthrough Charging
  • Customizable RGB Lighting

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Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $30 lower (37% savings) than the list price of $79.99
  • About this product:
    • 5-Years Limited Warranty

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Micro Center has select Western Digital WD Black Game Docks (Thunderbolt 3 Connectivity) for the prices listed. In-store purchase only.

Note: Availability for pickup may vary by location.

Thanks to Community Member turns2stone and SD Moderator Mbilo for finding this deal.

Available:Features (D50):
  • Multi-Port Gaming Connectivity
  • 2 x Thunderbolt 3
  • 1 x DisplayPort 1.4
  • 2 x 10 Gb/s USB Type-C
  • 3 x 10 Gb/s USB Type-A
  • 1 x 3.5mm Audio Input/Output
  • 1 x Gigabit Ethernet
  • Up to 87W of Passthrough Charging
  • Customizable RGB Lighting

Editor's Notes

Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $30 lower (37% savings) than the list price of $79.99
  • About this product:
    • 5-Years Limited Warranty

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turns2stone
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Every port on a Thunderbolt 4 device that isn't Thunderbolt (i.e. a path to support internal SSD) must share a single 10GBps slice of USB bandwidth.

https://www.owc.com/blog/whats-th...nderbolt-4
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This is not common knowledge. But leave it to Intel to invent something and cripple it. Not the first time they have done it thinking it will win them market share.

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.
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turns2stone
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Whoa there cowboy! All of those (save for the Kensington) are standard USB hubs, not Thunderbolt!

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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Was it opened? Mine was sealed up
It was sealed.
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If their PC is like mine, they may only have 1 M.2 slot, or have all of them populated already.My m.2 is my boot drive so when I upgraded from a 128gb to a 1tb, I bought an enclosure to try to clone it (that was an awful experience btw and almost totally fragged my boot drive, don't use externals to clone)
I have (2) M.2 slots but the memory pieces were put in a while back. My hope was that I can just use externals so I wouldn't have to go into it and mess with anything but I guess it's probably best to just upgrade the internals... I would need to move things over, and back around when upgrading I imagine.
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scowlDec 30, 2024 6:27 PM
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Every time I see a Microcenter deal, it's followed by "In-store purchase only".

Can the admins please let us filter out deals that are not suited to our area? Thanks.
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mb42Dec 31, 2024 1:40 AM
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Quote from turns2stone :
Every port on a Thunderbolt 4 device that isn't Thunderbolt (i.e. a path to support internal SSD) must share a single 10GBps slice of USB bandwidth. https://www.owc.com/blog/whats-th...nderbolt-4
If the SSD is NVMe (like it is here), then it falls into the PCIe Devices, not a 10Gbps USB Controller.
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Quote from mb42 :
If the SSD is NVMe (like it is here), then it falls into the PCIe Devices, not a 10Gbps USB Controller.
If this was a TB4 devices (it's not), then the SSD would still only have access to a single PCIe x 1 lane. If there's a USB controller at the end of that lane, it still doesn't change the fact that a TB4 dock like this wouldn't be good with a SSD slot.

Reads like you're trying to make a point for a product that doesn't exist. There is no TB4 dock (to my knowledge) with an option to add a SSD. So it doesn't matter if that mythical TB4 dock has the SSD connected to a PCIe x 1 lane, or there's a USB controller/hub in between it and the PCIe x 1 lane.
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This thing of hard to open.. like why would they make out so hard to open to add drive

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riyadcJan 1, 2025 12:51 AM
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Got this to use with my M1 MacBook Pro and Odyssey G9 OLED. Working perfectly and I can use 5120x1440 @240hz with the DisplayPort cable. Removed several hubs and now just have one cable connecting to my MPB. Super clean setup.
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whodiiniJan 1, 2025 2:47 AM
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I have this. just an FYI that to update the firmware, you need a windows PC that has a thunderbolt port. I dont, so I have running with the original firmware on my mac. I put a massive heat sink on my 4TB SN850X and it works very well. This is an FYI for those who werent sure about it supporting a 4TB NVMe.

This is the heat sink I used but it is no longer in stock.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...UTF8&psc=1
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turns2stone
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Quote from whodiini :
I have this. just an FYI that to update the firmware, you need a windows PC that has a thunderbolt port. I dont, so I have running with the original firmware on my mac. I put a massive heat sink on my 4TB SN850X and it works very well. This is an FYI for those who werent sure about it supporting a 4TB NVMe. This is the heat sink I used but it is no longer in stock.https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...UTF8&psc=1
I have a Windows PC with Thunderbolt and used the WD dashboard... but nothing indicates a firmware version is available. Can you post a screenshot of how you do this?
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Quote from turns2stone :
I have a Windows PC with Thunderbolt and used the WD dashboard... but nothing indicates a firmware version is available. Can you post a screenshot of how you do this?
Nothing on WD website provided any info what firmware updates were available. Was told by support you needed to use the WD dashboard. So maybe there is no firmware update?
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turns2stone
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Quote from whodiini :
Nothing on WD website provided any info what firmware updates were available. Was told by support you needed to use the WD dashboard. So maybe there is no firmware update?
I misread your original post, thinking you had updated. AFAIK there is no firmware update available, nor does the WD dashboard show the installed fw version.
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whodiiniJan 1, 2025 4:43 AM
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Quote from turns2stone :
I misread your original post, thinking you had updated. AFAIK there is no firmware update available, nor does the WD dashboard show the installed fw version.
According to the info on my mac, the D50 firmware is 61.61
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turns2stone
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Quote from whodiini :
According to the info on my mac, the D50 firmware is 61.61
Yes, I see that too on my Mac. But I don't see the firmware as something acknowledged, or eligible to be updated by the WD dashboard.
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whodiiniJan 1, 2025 5:12 AM
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Quote from turns2stone :
Yes, I see that too on my Mac. But I don't see the firmware as something acknowledged, or eligible to be updated by the WD dashboard.
see this support article:

https://support-en.sandisk.com/ap...UyMQ%3D%3D

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santy83Jan 1, 2025 5:19 AM
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If I don't care about ports would this OWC be better for higher speeds with heat sink - https://www.amazon.com/OWC-Portab...r=8-1&th=1

Folks have reported great speeds in the reviews like 3200MB/s Write, 3145MB/s Read (Blackmagic benchmark).

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