add more thunderbolt connections to iMac - Found adaptors to add USB's, HDMI, Displayport or mutiports with thunderbolt but not just Thunderbolt's.
Anyone got any recommendations on good options?
Thanks
Hey there!
I think the Belkin Connect Thunderbolt 4 Core Hub - Apple would work great for you! The Belkin Connect Thunderbolt 4 Core Hub optimizes your workstation with a compact 5-in-1 Thunderbolt hub solution to connect all your devices, charge lightning fast, and transfer data 8x faster than USB 3.0. You can connect five devices — including four Thunderbolt-enabled — through a single Thunderbolt cable to your Mac or iPad Pro.
Hope this helps!
-Jack
Hey there!
I think the Belkin Connect Thunderbolt 4 Core Hub - Apple would work great for you! The Belkin Connect Thunderbolt 4 Core Hub optimizes your workstation with a compact 5-in-1 Thunderbolt hub solution to connect all your devices, charge lightning fast, and transfer data 8x faster than USB 3.0. You can connect five devices — including four Thunderbolt-enabled — through a single Thunderbolt cable to your Mac or iPad Pro.
Hope this helps!
-Jack
Other World Computing has a Thunderbolt hub that can split one chain into three. It doesn’t increase the total number of Thunderbolt devices you can attach to one port (six), and the hub itself counts as one, but it gives you more flexibility in attaching the remaining five.
I think it is $129. Some of their fancier Thunderbolt docks also have this feature.
Thunderbolt allows daisy-chaining of up to six Thunderbolt devices on one port - if the devices have daisy-chaining ports. That was the original Thunderbolt topology - whereas USB never supported daisy-chaining and always relied on hubs.
Recently it has become possible to
get Thunderbolt hubs (like the OWC one), probably in part because of some of the work done on the USB4 and Thunderbolt 4 standards.
The OWC hubs have one upstream Thunderbolt port and three downstream ones - they split the chain into thtee. The downstream ports can have up to five Thunderbolt devices attached (total, between all three). To get to five, you would use daisy-chaining of some of the downstream devices.
Thanks to 'Servant of Cats' and 'Jack-19' for your replies. That's very helpful, shame it has to be so expensive (Belkin £196 & OWC £129 here in UK) for my meagre purposes just to add a couple of Thunderbolt ports. Thanks again, your help is much appreciated.
Thanks for the info but what do you mean "split one chain into three"? and how does one port become 6 and not 3?
How to add more thunderbolt connections to iMac
