Same device compatibility and performance, whether plugged into the hub or directly into your machine.All Thunderbolt ports are backwards compatible for USB too. Four fully functional Thunderbolt ports for your computer.On my iMac, that takes the default 2 Thunderbolt ports and expands them to four! Reading the specs for this device: One port connects to the computer, while the other three are available for whatever devices you need. The new OWC hub has one cable that goes to your computer, with four Thunderbolt 4 ports (which are backwards compatible to any Thunderbolt device) that you can connect stuff into. Converter cables don’t provide loop-through, which means each cable needs its own port. However, this converter doesn’t have a loop-through port, so it occupies the remaining Thunderbolt port on my iMac.īut, I also need to use another converter cable to provide 10G Ethernet, and still another converter to add a second HDMI monitor, or an external control surface, or, maybe, a small, portable drive. One is used to connect a series of external RAIDs, and the other has a converter cable to connect an external HDMI monitor. Expensive storage devices have them, connectors and inexpensive drives, don’t.įor example, on my iMac, I have two Thunderbolt 3 ports. This worked fine for storage, but required a loop-through connection on every device. Essentially this connected a single “wire” from the computer through every device until the end device. In all versions of Thunderbolt before version 4, you could connect multiple devices to the same port – called “daisy-chaining” – by looping from one device to another. Instead, this works with any Mac that can upgrade to Big Sur AND that has Thunderbolt 3. What impresses me the most about this hub is that this doesn’t require buying a new computer with Thunderbolt 4. What this means is that a single Thunderbolt port can be split into multiple ports without daisy-chaining. The big benefit to Thunderbolt 4, for Mac users, is the ability to hub Thunderbolt. Previously certified for Thunderbolt 4 PCs, the OWC Thunderbolt Hub is now available for new M1 Macs and all Thunderbolt 3 equipped Macs once they upgrade to the new Apple macOS 11 Big Sur. Last week, OWC announced Mac compatibility and certification of its new OWC Thunderbolt Hub.
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