HyperDrive GEN2 16 (Thunderbolt 3 Dock)

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.

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.

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.

There are a host of reviews that delve into the features of this great little dock, but I want to touch a little on the amazing construction of this dock, as well as poke the entire docking station manufacturer base a little bit with a stick. First, the build of this is pretty amazing, from an engineering standpoint. There are folks out there for whom the design specifics of a thing might go right by them. Not everyone appreciates a bit of engineering, perhaps that's only for the engineers. Well, I'm a bit of an engineer. I was trained in electronics, jet engines, and other engineering fields when I was in the Navy. So when I look at build quality and marvel at it, it's something to note generally. The all-aluminum enclosure this is built out of has the literal appearance of being machined out of a chunk of solid billet aluminum. Everybody talks about, oh, Thunderbolt this, and Mac that. But has anyone actually just...LOOKED at it? I study the port alignment, and it's aerospace quality. You know how sometimes the ports on the circuit board won't exactly match the holes in whatever case they're mounted in? These look like the entire thing was hand fabricated by a German machinist. With .0001 accuracy. The only screws are on the one endcap, and the seams on the opposite cap are so precise you have to search for them up close to find them. The heft of it, is perfect, it feels like a quality component. And I love that it literally has the smallest footprint of any of my docks, even laid on its side it's extremely compact but stood on edge, the space it occupies is miniscule. Which, for a non-mountable dock, is literally best-case scenario. So I'm pretty much enamored with the design and execution of this dock. If I had just got done Ferrari shopping for my new Enzo and I went next door to purchase a docking station to match my car, this is the one I'd purchase. I might paint it red, of course. But you get the point. But the overall design can't alone win this 5 stars, and this takes me to the downside of nearly every dock I've owned, used, or reviewed. Despite the fact this occupies a wonderfully small footprint, and for that I give it proper credit, some of us just don't want these things ON our desks. There are those of us who fight daily to reduce desk clutter, because once you give in to desk clutter, it CONSUMES YOU. Yeah, a little melodrama there, but the point remains valid. There is only ONE docking station that I own that included ANY kind of wall mount ability, and that's a StarTech. Wonderful little dock that I love BECAUSE I can wall mount it. And they didn't even include any mounting hardware, specs, templates, NOTHING. I had to FABRICATE a wall-mount for it. And I was GLAD to do so. Why? Because now it sits on my wall, not on my desk. Thanks, StarTech. Hyper, in fact ALL manufacturers, please, pay attention. Not all of us want docking stations on our desktops, not all of us want GIGANTIC power bricks on the floor, or especially on our desks. No, really, the power supply that comes with this is enormous. Just, wow, just stick a mATX power supply in here or something. But, why do you go to all these great lengths to build these wonderful looking, working, docks, and then just leave the cord management and mounting up to us? Please, please, please, give us a way to mount these things, the docks AND the power supplies. I don't care if it's a wall mount bracket, an under-desk clip / bracket, something that velcros to my monitor, or to the side of my case, give me SOMETHING to mount this. You could include a plastic cage for the brick for pennies, a decent mount for the hub might take a buck or 2. But man, it sure would make it easier. I'll probably make some kind of bracket for it, because I like the hub I just don't want it on my desk. Feature wise, just to touch on it, I love the plethora of USB ports, could use another display port or even an HDMI though. I don't use my hub to run multi-mon, at least not on this, (I do on my StarTech), my video card and onboard video can do all that. This is more about usb connectivity for me, and for that this this is the bomb. I just wish I didn't have to fab a way to mount it somewhere. Happy computing!