{"id":10367,"date":"2014-12-21T15:43:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T20:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10367"},"modified":"2014-12-21T15:43:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T20:43:40","slug":"caldigits-thunderbolt-station-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/21\/caldigits-thunderbolt-station-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CalDigit&rsquo;s Thunderbolt Station 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2014\/12\/19\/caldigits-thunderbolt-station-2-starts-price-war-on-thunderbolt-2-docks-w-170-pre-order-reg-200\/\">Jeremy Horowitz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2014\/12\/19\/caldigits-thunderbolt-station-2-starts-price-war-on-thunderbolt-2-docks-w-170-pre-order-reg-200\/\">\n<p>Looking to grab market share from rival makers of Mac Thunderbolt docks, CalDigit today announced Thunderbolt Station 2, an aggressively-priced Thunderbolt 2 docking hub that promises to surpass earlier Belkin and Elgato units in features and build quality. Redesigned from a prior model, Thunderbolt Station 2 includes the expected twin Thunderbolt 2 ports, three USB 3.0 ports, Ethernet, HDMI and analog audio in\/out ports. What&rsquo;s new are twin eSATA 6G ports and an enclosure that can be mounted vertically or horizontally, saving space on a desk.<\/p>\n<p>With a regular price of $200, it&rsquo;s already $30 cheaper than Elgato&rsquo;s Thunderbolt 2 Dock and $100 under Belkin&rsquo;s Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock HD, but a special $170 pre-order price makes it the most affordable Thunderbolt 2 dock yet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/11\/belkin-thunderbolt-2-express-dock-hd\/\">Belkin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caldigit.com\/thunderboltstation2\/\">CalDigit<\/a> doesn&rsquo;t obscure and mislead about how many Thunderbolt ports its dock has. I wonder whether eSATA via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianker.com\/product\/68UPSHDDS-BU#sthash.c3nj3Omc.dpuf\">Anker USB 3.0 Hard Drive Docking Station<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B005UA3I72\/?tag=michaeltsai-20\">Amazon<\/a>) would get around the <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/18\/rocketstor-drive-dock-more-expensive-but-reliable\/\">problems<\/a> I had with various USB 3 drive docks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Horowitz: Looking to grab market share from rival makers of Mac Thunderbolt docks, CalDigit today announced Thunderbolt Station 2, an aggressively-priced Thunderbolt 2 docking hub that promises to surpass earlier Belkin and Elgato units in features and build quality. Redesigned from a prior model, Thunderbolt Station 2 includes the expected twin Thunderbolt 2 ports, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[953,1093,452,30,201,175],"class_list":["post-10367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-anker-docking-station","tag-esata","tag-hardware","tag-mac","tag-thunderbolt","tag-usb"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10368,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions\/10368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}