{"id":26327,"date":"2019-08-19T15:25:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26327"},"modified":"2019-08-23T17:06:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T21:06:57","slug":"owc-thunderbolt-3-dock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/19\/owc-thunderbolt-3-dock\/","title":{"rendered":"OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/swapping-dongles-for-a-dock-the-owc-thunderbolt-3-dock\/\">John Voorhees<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/swapping-dongles-for-a-dock-the-owc-thunderbolt-3-dock\/\">\n<p>I had been thinking about ways to improve my summertime beta setup when Other World Computing offered to send me its <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/docks\/owc-thunderbolt-3-dock\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock<\/a> to test. I took them up on the offer, and having used it for a while now, I love the convenience of being able to connect everything to my MacBook Pro with a single Thunderbolt 3 cable. It&rsquo;s not an inexpensive solution, but compared to the cost of purchasing multiple over-priced dongles, it&rsquo;s not as extravagant as it might seem at first.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>One especially nice touch that I appreciate is a free menu bar utility OWC offers called OWC Dock Ejector. If you have multiple drives attached to a dock, the process of ejecting each one before disconnecting the dock defeats some of the convenience of having a single Thunderbolt cable connected to your Mac. With OWC Dock Ejector, a single click safely ejects every external drive attached to my dock, so I can yank out the Thunderbolt cable and be on my way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/09\/elgato-thunderbolt-3-pro-dock\/\">Another<\/a> $300+ dock. This one gives you a passthrough Thunderbolt port, a Mini DisplayPort, and a single USB-C port. How about just putting more ports on the computer?<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/09\/elgato-thunderbolt-3-pro-dock\/\">Elgato Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/14\/the-impossible-dream-of-usb-c\/\">The Impossible Dream of USB-C<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/31\/intel-to-integrate-thunderbolt-3-eliminate-royalties\/\">Intel to Integrate Thunderbolt 3, Eliminate Royalties<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/21\/caldigits-thunderbolt-station-2\/\">CalDigit&rsquo;s Thunderbolt Station 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/11\/belkin-thunderbolt-2-express-dock-hd\/\">Belkin Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock HD<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/matrox-ds1\/\">Matrox DS1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"owc-thunderbolt-3-dock-update-2019-08-20\">Update (2019-08-20): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jon_Alper\/status\/1163627364577873920\">Jon Alper<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mjtsai\/status\/1163621526522011648\">my reply<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"owc-thunderbolt-3-dock-update-2019-08-23\">Update (2019-08-23): <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2019\/08\/23\/when-youve-got-more-usb-c-devices-than-ports\/\">Howard Oakley\n<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2019\/08\/23\/when-youve-got-more-usb-c-devices-than-ports\/\">\n<p>The same happened with good old USB-A: even when your Mac has four, you quickly accumulate more USB-C devices than you&rsquo;ve got ports. Yet no one seems to be offering a &lsquo;port expander&rsquo; to turn a single USB-C port into several. In particular, I&rsquo;m now accumulating several external SSDs in compact cases. One obvious step forward would be to mount two or more in a single housing, which is the aim of this article.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Voorhees: I had been thinking about ways to improve my summertime beta setup when Other World Computing offered to send me its OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock to test. I took them up on the offer, and having used it for a while now, I love the convenience of being able to connect everything to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-08-19T19:25:50Z","apple_news_api_id":"3f9f47f2-0b6f-476c-84e8-a561fc37632b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-08-23T21:07:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AP59H8gtvR2yE6KVh_DdjKw","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":[30,1609,201,175,1154],"class_list":["post-26327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-14","tag-thunderbolt","tag-usb","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26327","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=26327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26380,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26327\/revisions\/26380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}