Brydge unveils Stone Pro TB4 Thunderbolt 4 docking station

Now we're talking.  It's good to see ONE company taking advantage of the USB4 spec.  Looks like a solid dock.

I’d pay a little more for a version that included 10Gbe Ethernet.  Beyond that this is a top notch dock. 

The fact that PD for computer is on the front is dumb as hell. Hide the cables that will always be plugged in! 

"Thunderbolt 4 is the latest generation of Thunderbolt. These ports are found on PCs with 11th Gen Intel® Core™ mobile processors, or systems that are equipped with a Thunderbolt 4 controller.

Thunderbolt 4 brings numerous improvements and new features to the table when compared to Thunderbolt 3.

• Speed. Thunderbolt 4 ports have the same high-speed 40Gbps bandwidth as Thunderbolt™ 3. However, minimum PCIe data requirements have increased from 16Gbps to 32Gbps. This means that high-speed external PCIe devices like storage and external graphics could see significant increases in transfer rates and performance.
• Security. VT-d based DMA protection helps prevent security threats by remapping requests from external devices and checking for proper permissions.
• Wake from sleep. This feature allows a PC to be brought out of hibernation with peripherals that are connected through a dock."

TB4 speed is same as TB3, however, devices might actually be able to attain that speed with updated hardware. I presume this dock is using whatever PCIe version is capable of providing 32Gbps bus speed although their website doesn't display this information in their specifications. I agree with @cia that 10Gbe Ethernet would have been a no brainer but it might have kicked the price even higher than $350 it already costs. 

To the majority of us, a TB4 dock probably won't be any faster than TB3 docks.

sflocal said:

Now we're talking.  It's good to see ONE company taking advantage of the USB4 spec.  Looks like a solid dock.

The only problem is that all of the TB4 docks have a known speed issue with the M1 Macs. It's well documented by OWC. I brought three already from OWC, Caldigit, etc, and all of them exhibit the same issue with the M1 Macs and I sent them all back. Who knows if Apple will fix the issue or if its an unfixable hardware flaw. Meanwhile companies keep pumping out these docks while remaining most silent about the issue.

Also, isn't this just a clone of the OWC TB4 dock?

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