Elgato Thunderbolt 2 Dock Loose Cable Drives Ejecting

I previously used Elgato Thunderbolt 3 Dock, but ended up replacing it because it didn't have a SD card slot and enough USB ports. CalDigit TS3 solved all the problems I had. I had to have USB 3.0 dongles to connect more, and I got rid of it now since I was able to connect everything on this new dock. And my MacBook Air M1 works just great. Charges fast, and connect everything properly.

I'm suing the Thunderbolt Dock as additional storage space to my existing Thunderbolt Lacie drives, I already had spare hard drives to use in the dock, all daisychained together ensures high speed transfer rates. The RocketStor Thunderbolt Dock was very easy to install & use on my Mac, solid construction that will last. Regarding design faults with this dock, they should have installed a double Thunderbolt port on the unit, for daisychaining devices, & the dock should be supplied with a Thunderbolt cable as standard.

This dock delivers. One USB-C Thunderbolt cable to the HP laptop is all that is needed to drive 2 27 inch monitors, wireless mouse & keyboard, webcam, and a USB thumb drive. The cable also maintains a charge on the laptop and all that is needed is a single touch to the power button on the dock to wake the system.

Using with dock with a late 2020 MacBookPro 13 M1 w 16gig.  I love having just one cable to attach to an external dock for all attachments including power!   Using the dock with an external 4k display, 3 or 4 hard drives, and a secondary older USB 2.0 dock (a/c powered) that I attach to this dock -- for a variety of low powered external devices such as camera or microphone. IMPORTANT: The dock great with the enclosed half meter cable but when I tried a longer cable, it failed to drive everything adequately, even though I checked the spec carefully and also it was a reliable brand (I think it was Anker).   I read a LOT about Thunderbolt 3 cables that afternoon and what I found is that everything DOES change once you exceed half a meter.   You may notice that a one meter Thunderbolt cable can oddly more than a half a meter cable. Why? There is some kind of extra internal circuit needed once you exceed the half meter point. Still, even with a proper one meter Thunderbolt 3 cable I could not get the full capabilities to work as I described above. I did not try other brands of cables, just decided to leave well enough alone.

This cable makes super-fast data transfers. I hooked it up to my Xcellon M2NS USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 M.2 SSD Enclosure and was very impressed with the speeds it provided. This cable and an M.2 drive are a match made in heaven and give blazing speeds. It also rated for 8k or dual 4k monitor support which is fantastic. Another nice plus is it is rated to handle 240w power delivery so it can be used to charge or power most accessories (laptops, peripherals etc.). This cable is definitely future proof and ready for whatever you throw at it, including the ability to daisy chain up to 6 additional devices. It is designed to work with Thunderbolt 4, Thunderbolt 3, and USB-C so it is very versatile. The build quality is also fantastic. Cable feels great and is flexible but still sturdy. Connectors seem to be made of quality materials and should last a long, long time. This cable is great. [I have received this product in exchange for my honest review]

Got this to connect my XPS 13 from 2016/2017 to my 27" thunderbolt Apple monitor. It worked straight out of the box. However I have a Dell TB16 dock as well. Tried using that as well. So the dock's usb-c connector goes into the XPS, and the Startech adapter goes from the dock to the Thunderbolt monitor. That didn't work: I needed to update the BIOS, Thunderbolt firmware, thunderbolt driver, and installed I believe the latest thunderbolt application from the Intel website. Everything works now, even the audio and usb ports on the monitor. (facetime camera doesn't work, since it can't find a driver). All in all good buy, but I can't connect my 2019 macbook Pro to my thunderbolt monitor with the startech adapter. Monitor does not activate. Seems to only work with Windows machines.

Have had it for 2 weeks and glad I purchased this dock. Using the Sonnet Echo 11 Thunderbolt 4 Dock to expand my connectivity with a Macbook Pro. Have not used the ports for any displays, only external hard drives and speakers. Really plug and play.

This is my second unit. For those of you contemplating a completely separate CPU to carry your samples, consider one or two of these stuffed with 4GB SSD drives instead. So one unit would give you access to 16TB of data (4x4TB). You can rig these so two drives use one USB-C (Thunderbolt) cable, or so that all four drives use the same cable (Thunderbolt 3 or 4 on Mac, and don't use cheap cables). Much less hassle and less expensive than a second PC or Mac; no maintenance; and super fast loading of samples in real time at 10Gb/sec. Using matching drives will always give you more predictable results, naturally. A perfect setup! And B&H was the friendliest place to buy this!

This is a quality thunderbolt cable; not much else to say.

This worked flawlessly for cloning a SATA M.2 drive that I had. I didn't check that it works with NVMe M.2 drives, but others have said that it does. It got a little warm while running, but it did clone an entire 128G drive in only a few minutes. One minor annoyance is that it doesn't use an M.2 screw, but rather some weird rubber nub that I found hard to use. I would prefer a screw, but it says it's tool-free so that's not exactly a surprise. I like the push-button clamshell thing it's got going on, but the instructions make it clear that it can really mess up your cable if you forget to take it out before opening the enclosure. It also only comes with a (really short) C-to-C USB cable. But I guess it's kind of expected that you're using newer hardware if you have M.2 drives. There are a whole bunch of cheap M.2 enclosures that are notorious for using unreliable JMicron controllers that run really hot. This appears to use a Realtek RTL8210b controller, which runs much better and does actually support NVMe and SATA. I didn't physically check that it does have that chip, but others have, and you can see for yourself what firmware is provided for this drive on Sabrent's site.