Thunderbolt Toys
Spent some time messing around with the thunderbolt toys I have. Unfortunately this haven't been as plug an play as I had hoped for.
The three thunderbolt devices I have are:
- CalDigit Station
- Sonnet Echo Express SE (with 10GbE card)
- LaCie 256GB SSD
Here it all is wired up on my MBP, pretty neat to have all of this running from a single port on the Mac
Using a device on it's own with no daisy chaining there are no issues. Every device works as expected.
Start introducing daisy chaining and the fun begins...
MBP > CalDigit > LaCie
- No issues recorded here
MBP > Sonnet > LaCie
- No issues recorded here
MBP > CalDigit > Sonnet > LaCie
- USB ports on CalDigit work for 10 seconds before disconnecting and reconnecting
- Connecting a Razer Mamba mouse to the CalDigit causes the MBP to restart
- LaCie shows up inside the system information thunderbolt tree but not inside disk utility
MBP > Sonnet > CalDigit > LaCie
- LaCie shows up inside the system information thunderbolt tree but not inside disk utility
Here is the thunderbolt tree, the 'Rugged mini' is the LaCie drive.
Anyway thought I should benchmark the USB3 support of the CalDigit Station, these are connected in the following thunderbolt configuration
MBP > Sonnet > CalDigit
SanDisk 32GB Extreme USB 3.0 Flash Drive
LaCie 256GB SSD connected via USB3
For comparison this is the LaCie drive connected via thunderbolt (almost identical to my previous post regarding this)
Now the 10GbE I am struggling to get anything over 2.6Gbits, previous testing on the iMac resulted in a maximum 4.7Gbits. Not too sure if this is due to the performance of a MBP.