HyperDrive GEN2 16 (Thunderbolt 3 Dock)

One of the best purchases I have made for my mini. PC to give it additional slots and capabilities.

I bought another one that the TECH STAFF of Hyperdrive suggested and in would not even drive 2 monitors. Still waiting on a return label from HYPERDRIVE after buying hundreds of dollars of their products. Buy your hyperdrives directly from Amazon to ensure a faster return policy and zero circle jerks.

Works well, but does crash once a day with my Macbook Pro. Other than that, the simplicity of have everything connected and 4K work fits my bill nicely. I have a Alienware 38" connected.

I purchased this and used it with my 2019 Macbook pro for almost a year with no issues. At the time it was the only dock which could support the Samsung G9 monitor at full resolution and 120hz refresh. The dock would get really hot but it still worked. One day it stopped working within the 1 year warranty period. I opened a ticket with the vendor and after providing them the details and proof that the dock was not working they completely stopped responding. Way too much money to spend on a product that doesn't even last a year, dissapointed.

I will start off by saying that this is one of the most if not the most "complete" hub I have ever seen. This hub literally has all the ports to set this up as a desktop including Coaxial audio output. I set this up on my secondary desk where I Have another dock for my laptops and this just blew it away. I plugged everything from my secondary workstation into this device to test it and it handled it like a boss. Because of the 180W charging I was even able to test it with this Alienware laptop I recently got. It is able to power the Alienware (without the GPU chugging though) and turn it into a multi-screen workstation. Unfortunately it only has a single DP output and the other is through Thunderbolt only so a TB->DP cable is required and most devices will not support it.... I mainly was attracted to this because of the coaxial audio output so that I could run this dock to my DAC. The coax port actually works fine on my external DAC which is pretty cool to be able to do this with a laptop. It didn't quite work right with my pixelbook (only appeared once, typically shows the monitor as the output and not the other audio device) but it worked fine on my windows laptops and even on another linux laptop. For a thunderbolt laptop like a macbook or a high end windows laptop this dock provides a ton of expandability to thunderbolt devices.... however I don't really have those. I just used a keyboard, mouse, external SSD, external HDD, Ethernet, DAC and a flash drive. No issues with all of it and powering the laptop at the same time. I drove a single display with 1080p and recently 1440p. Overall this is quite a unique dock, it is a shame that it seems that the company discontinued it now (not available at the time of review). Maybe it is just out of stock like half the other things on the market....