In this case, one of the two USB-C ports of the Mac would totally be unused and the second monitor would eat performance from the SSD devices. I did not buy the Thunderbolt dock to also run a monitor over it. Īlso, I meant the connected SSD devices that show up in the USB tree, not the Thunderbolt tree - but this seems to be normal and you should see the same!Īnd no, I am not going to connect any monitor to the dock. TB to DisplayPort adapter.Īs I said, I used the USB-C cable that came with the dock.Īnd with USB-C, I meant the physical port, not the protocol used over the cable. My display turns off after 10min instead of a screensaver, but it always wakes up. I bet it will wake up with the computer from sleep. I'd also try connecting the 2nd display to the dock, the usbc one. The performance difference is huge, so you may wanna try a TB cable. My docks show up under TB bus in system profile, not USB. The dock should have come with a TB cable, not usb-c. (hope there was something helpful in all that keyboard smashing i said: That being said.spending 100's of dollars more on faster enclosures and drives to gain 1-3 seconds of my life back in speed.that loot was better spend on other things imho.Īnd being audio files are most small files that lose the benefits of sustained read/write speeds of large files. i cant even saturate a TB1 connection, and externals dont perform any faster on a tb3 dock than a tb1. There is a bottleneck going from TB to USB (and you have added a hop in there). worked well for daily driving, but not large logic projects).ĭocks are convenience, not necessarily a performance expansion. (if this is what you were looking to do.i was and have tried. The memory swaps wont work at the mini's 2000mb/s speeds. If you got a mini with a smaller drive and were looking to use an external to boot from, or host 99% of your content, this doesn't work well. I'd need to know more about your endgame and can provide more info. Overall (with the exception of the display issue) you seem to be experiencing what you should in real world (not theoretical maximums). Its just the manual web version of 'Send Report to Apple' for crashes They only allow you to give 'feedback' without any reply.

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