Michael Tsai
Kirk McElhearn
@mjtsai I have a Belkin, and, no, it’s just got one in, one out. Which sort of defeats the purpose (though I use it more for the USB3 ports)
Does anyone know of a Thunderbolt dock/hub that *adds* Thunderbolt ports—not just a passthrough? (Prompted by: http://mjtsai.com/blog/2014/10/11/belkin-thunderbolt-2-express-dock-hd/ …)
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@mcelhearn Exactly. I don't understand why this doesn't seem to exist. Especially with so many years of no new Mac Pro. -
@mjtsai Maybe it’s a bandwidth thing; if you have too many devices, bandwidth suffers (but you can daisy-chain them, so maybe not). -
@mcelhearn Yeah, you can daisy chain up to 6 devices. And it seems like a chain would be less efficient than a hub.
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@mjtsai No such beast. Thunderbolt does not fan out like USB. -
@Bagelturf So how does the Mac Pro do it? 6 ports but only 2 buses… - View other replies
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@mjtsai I thought it had three chips, each with 2 ports. I do know that not all the ports are the same, so muxing? -
@Bagelturf The first article I found was wrong. You are right; the Mac Pro has 3 Thunderbolt buses, 2 ports each. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5918
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@mjtsai It would have to be switching I think.
Steve Weller
Justin Driscoll
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