Thunderbolt 3 Workstation Dock Split Cable

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The Thinkpad P17 Gen2 is a laptop that is big, solid build and the Thunderbolt 4 Workstation Dock is the perfect match to make it awesome!! The P17 Gen 2 has the A5000 NVIDA GPU with 16 GB vRAM and 128GB DDR4 memory and a 3840x2180 500nits display, in addition, three 2 TB M.2 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe for fast and large storage. Two Thunderbolt 4 ports are available. Attaching the Thunderbolt 4 Workstation Dock (model 40B00300US) to the P17 Gen2 with two 4k 27" monitors using the 2 DisplayPort Ports that are available on this dock and this plenty of power (300 watts) and plenty of accessory port available for expanding storage or what other devices. IN fact I have a 2 TB PCIe external SDD Gen 4 NVMe connected to the Dock's Thunderbolt Dock and I am getting transfer rates of 2780 Mb/s!! With the latest's firmware and drivers installed this Thunderbolt 4 Workstation dock is working flawlessly for me. I am as happy as I can be with Thunderbolt 4 WS Dock.

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.

3' is a short cable Although this does work well.

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.

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.

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 a quality thunderbolt cable; not much else to say.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] with it's accessory thunderbolt 4 dock it is worth much more!

This cable is great up to Thunderbolt 2. Enjoy!