WEBVTT 00:00:00.230 --> 00:00:07.491 - CalDigit sponsored this video to check out a whole bunch of ways that you can up your dongle game. 00:00:08.440 --> 00:00:14.568 That's right, ladies and gentlemen, don't be using some pinner, lame dongle. 00:00:14.568 --> 00:00:21.610 For serious though, there are some pretty sweet dongles in here. This right here is a 10 Gigabyte networking dongle. 00:00:21.610 --> 00:00:25.390 Give me a second, I just wanna show you my dongle. Oh yeah, there we go. 00:00:25.390 --> 00:00:29.710 Oh, that's a thick boy of a dongle. 00:00:29.710 --> 00:00:34.590 And so it's Thunderbolt on one end, so as long as you've got a Thunderbolt-compliant PC 00:00:34.590 --> 00:00:37.730 or a Mac computer, you just plug it into this puppy, 00:00:37.730 --> 00:00:41.640 and boom, 10 Gig Ethernet. Let's try it out. 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:46.130 I think they actually included, ah, yeah, there we go. We've got a Thunderbolt 3 cable included. 00:00:46.130 --> 00:00:47.530 Why did I put my knife away? 00:00:50.500 --> 00:00:54.703 All right. CalDigit makes some pretty good shizz. 00:00:55.658 --> 00:01:02.650 I actually use one of their docs from my crazy weird Thunderbolt PC in a different room 00:01:02.650 --> 00:01:06.120 setup at home. We're setting up the Ethernet controller. 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:10.600 Oh, nope, okay, you've got to go grab a driver. Well, I guess that's fair enough. 00:01:10.600 --> 00:01:14.400 Windows driver, there it is. Perfect. Let's see how fast their download server is. 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:18.570 You can tell a lot about a company and how much they care by how fast their downloads are. 00:01:18.570 --> 00:01:21.616 That was very fast. It's already done. 00:01:21.616 --> 00:01:25.660 Cool. And now I'm expecting, boom, there it is. 00:01:25.660 --> 00:01:31.220 10 gigabit network adapter. And because it's Thunderbolt, you can actually probably get 10 gigabit performance 00:01:31.220 --> 00:01:34.870 out of it. Pretty sweet. It's amazing how much cooling 00:01:34.870 --> 00:01:38.910 this thing apparently requires. Look at that. 00:01:38.910 --> 00:01:42.731 All right, but that's not the one that's actually going to be practical 00:01:42.731 --> 00:01:47.040 to the majority of people out there. The main one they wanted us to feature today 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:51.240 is the Soho dock. Not all laptops have Thunderbolt, 00:01:51.240 --> 00:01:54.770 but pretty much anything you buy today outside of like very, 00:01:54.770 --> 00:01:59.753 very budget machines is probably going to have a USB type-C connector. 00:01:59.753 --> 00:02:03.410 And what that means is that you can use one of these. 00:02:03.410 --> 00:02:07.500 So what sets this puppy apart compared to other USB type-C hubs, 00:02:07.500 --> 00:02:11.070 because there's tons of them out, is a couple of things. 00:02:11.070 --> 00:02:16.159 One, it's got, I think, 100 watts of USB pass-through power delivery. 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:21.340 So that means even if you've got a powerful machine, it can be charged while your adapter 00:02:21.340 --> 00:02:25.960 is also powering the dock here. The other thing that stands out about this one, 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:30.170 check that out. HDMI 2.0, which means you can run 4k 60 Hertz 00:02:30.170 --> 00:02:32.963 with a single display and it's got DisplayPort 1.4, 00:02:33.810 --> 00:02:38.730 so that means you can do 4k 60 Hertz there, or if you want to do two displays, 00:02:38.730 --> 00:02:41.770 it depends whether you're running mirroring or extended, 00:02:41.770 --> 00:02:45.280 but you can have two of them running it up to 4k 30 Hertz. 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:50.480 Anyway, what's cool about these is that they actually use different lanes than the USB ports 00:02:50.480 --> 00:02:55.430 so they're not sharing bandwidth. So your USB devices aren't going to slow down 00:02:55.430 --> 00:02:58.850 when you're using display devices. Really nice finish to it, actually. 00:02:58.850 --> 00:03:02.050 All right, so let's go ahead and plug this puppy in. Hey Jono, what's that monitor? 00:03:02.050 --> 00:03:05.652 Is that a 4k monitor? - [Jono] No, it's a 1080p, 360 Hertz. 00:03:05.652 --> 00:03:09.320 - 1080p, 360 Hertz. Well, let's try it. 00:03:09.320 --> 00:03:14.200 I want to see what happens if we plug it into a DisplayPort 1.4 port on this thing. 00:03:14.200 --> 00:03:19.240 Now I'm using a Thunderbolt 3 cable right now, but because this is a type-C hub, 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:24.570 it's only acting as a USB cable right now. It's not actually acting as a Thunderbolt cable. 00:03:24.570 --> 00:03:28.144 Thanks Jono. Oh, I should plug it into power. 00:03:28.144 --> 00:03:33.470 It can be used in passive mode, but obviously it's going to work better if you power it 00:03:33.470 --> 00:03:37.142 and fill it up with devices. Okay, so here's how it works. 00:03:37.142 --> 00:03:40.350 The connection to your computer goes there. 00:03:40.350 --> 00:03:44.450 The power connection goes over on this side where the DisplayPort and HDMI is, 00:03:44.450 --> 00:03:48.160 and then everything you plug in goes here. So you've got 10 gigabit per second, right, 00:03:48.160 --> 00:03:51.717 that's the last special thing about this one? A lot of these are five gigabit per second hubs, 00:03:51.717 --> 00:03:55.130 but this one's 10 gig. You've got a USB type-A, 00:03:55.130 --> 00:03:59.090 and then of course you've got an SD card reader and a micro SD reader. 00:03:59.090 --> 00:04:02.970 All right, here we go. Let's see if this works. One thing you should watch out for, 00:04:02.970 --> 00:04:07.270 you can actually see my laptop's giving me an error about slow charging. 00:04:07.270 --> 00:04:10.390 That's because I'm using my laptops included power adapter 00:04:10.390 --> 00:04:15.250 to go into the hub. It doesn't have any access. So it actually has to power all the devices 00:04:15.250 --> 00:04:19.807 that I have plugged into this. So if I have an RGB keyboard and a desk fan 00:04:19.807 --> 00:04:25.460 and a high performance, oh, something like a high performance external SSD 00:04:25.460 --> 00:04:29.340 or something like that, that's less power that my laptop can take 00:04:29.340 --> 00:04:33.480 for actually charging itself. So it means either it will charge more slowly, 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:38.810 or if you really overload it, it won't charge while it is passed through 00:04:38.810 --> 00:04:42.690 and all these other things are being powered. Let's plug in the Tuff Nano. 00:04:42.690 --> 00:04:47.530 Oh, wow, look at this. The SSD comes in a nice little case and everything. 00:04:47.530 --> 00:04:54.040 So it comes with a type-A to type-C as well as a type-C to type-C. 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:59.590 Conveniently, CalDigit provided me with everything I need to validate their claims 00:04:59.590 --> 00:05:05.020 that this thing won't slow down when I am using DisplayPort and HDMI. 00:05:05.020 --> 00:05:09.560 How about that? Okay, I'll plug that in. 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:13.067 My apologies to whoever has to clean this up. Jono. 00:05:13.067 --> 00:05:17.220 - [Jono] Yep. - So let's see if this works. 00:05:17.220 --> 00:05:24.500 So we're at 144 and let's go ahead and try and transfer some data to our external drive here. 00:05:24.670 --> 00:05:28.120 One problem we have is that I don't think my internal SSD 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:33.020 is fast enough to fully saturate this external one, but I guess we'll find out soon enough. 00:05:33.880 --> 00:05:37.626 Oh, 500 megabytes a second. Yeah, okay. 00:05:37.626 --> 00:05:40.830 - [Andy] You can use the Blackmagic Speed Test. 00:05:40.830 --> 00:05:45.783 - Hmm, that's a good idea. All right, select target drive, start. 00:05:46.670 --> 00:05:50.130 700 megabytes a second. Not too shabby. 00:05:50.130 --> 00:05:54.130 Now, that's not fully saturating 10 gigabit, 00:05:54.130 --> 00:05:58.300 but as far as external drives go, that's okay. Read are right up there. 00:05:58.300 --> 00:06:02.300 900 megabytes a second. Not bad at all. 00:06:02.300 --> 00:06:07.880 700 write, 900 read. Sure, so as long as you're not trying to do 10-bit, 00:06:07.880 --> 00:06:12.880 422, 4k 50 or 60 FPS, you should be in pretty good shape. 00:06:15.670 --> 00:06:19.980 Sweet. And all of this while we're running a DisplayPort monitor. 00:06:19.980 --> 00:06:23.960 Now the question is, will it do better if I pull out 00:06:23.960 --> 00:06:25.453 the DisplayPort connection? 00:06:27.983 --> 00:06:34.000 I just want to know more? Okay, nope, that's right in the same range. 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.903 Okay, but wait, there's still more that we can know. 00:06:38.870 --> 00:06:42.110 Now, let's take it out of the hub and put it straight 00:06:42.110 --> 00:06:46.570 into a type-C port. Cool. So as advertised, the performance is identical 00:06:46.570 --> 00:06:50.100 whether you've got a display connection plugged in or not. 00:06:50.100 --> 00:06:53.100 Of course, I wouldn't be able to finish this video 00:06:53.100 --> 00:06:59.780 without talking about my personal favorite of everything that's here, the TS3-Plus, 00:06:59.780 --> 00:07:02.663 I actually freaking love this thing. 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:07.730 Now, I don't use it for a laptop. I actually use it for my desktop. 00:07:07.730 --> 00:07:14.330 But what sick about it is it's got, I think it's something like 87 Watts of power delivery 00:07:14.330 --> 00:07:18.420 with the included adapter, which also has enough capacity for you 00:07:18.420 --> 00:07:21.498 to put much freaking load the thing up 00:07:21.498 --> 00:07:27.050 with everything else that you could want to plug into it. And the reason that I ultimately chose this one 00:07:27.050 --> 00:07:32.050 for my personal setup was because it has so many ports. 00:07:32.375 --> 00:07:36.187 Like it has ports for days, and it's not huge. 00:07:36.187 --> 00:07:40.620 Some of them I don't even use. Like I don't need an Ethernet jack, 00:07:40.620 --> 00:07:46.040 because obviously, networking is plugged in in my server room. But it's got daisy-chain support. 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:49.510 So you plug in via Thunderbolt to your computer, and then you've got another Thunderbolt port 00:07:49.510 --> 00:07:53.000 so you can go plug into something else. It has got DisplayPort. 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:59.304 No HDMI, but that's not a big problem for me because you can just adapt DisplayPort to HDMI very easily. 00:07:59.304 --> 00:08:02.491 Optical audio. That's like what? 00:08:02.491 --> 00:08:06.552 10 gig USB, four more five gig USBs. 00:08:06.552 --> 00:08:09.960 Then around the front, I use it as an SD card reader 00:08:09.960 --> 00:08:14.500 all the time. For me, this is great. Two more five gig USBs, one type-A, one type-C, 00:08:14.500 --> 00:08:18.400 headphone, and I think, that's like a line out 00:08:18.400 --> 00:08:22.440 or something like that. A line in or something like that? 00:08:22.440 --> 00:08:26.390 I don't use that either because I have my own audio interface. But it's just all the USB ports 00:08:26.390 --> 00:08:30.540 and the fact that it handles them all gracefully without any weird issues. 00:08:30.540 --> 00:08:35.060 In fact, I had a weird issue with my other, just like no-name hub the other day on the stream 00:08:35.060 --> 00:08:38.070 and I was able to fix it by plugging my audio interface 00:08:38.070 --> 00:08:41.863 into this puppy instead. Just freaking works. Love this thing. 00:08:42.767 --> 00:08:46.200 Is there anything else I'm supposed to talk about? USB-C DisplayPort adaptor. 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:51.400 That seems fairly self-explanatory. Active DisplayPort to HDMI. 00:08:51.400 --> 00:08:55.240 These are really useful. Is this an HDMI 2.0? Yeah, these are great. 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:58.370 So if you want to, for example, let's say, 00:08:58.370 --> 00:09:02.890 run your 4k 60 Hertz TV, that's what I have one of these for at home. 00:09:02.890 --> 00:09:06.670 I didn't use to have a graphics card that had HDMI 2.0, 00:09:06.670 --> 00:09:10.646 but I did have DisplayPort 1.2, which can do 4k 60. 00:09:10.646 --> 00:09:14.431 So you can use one of these to adapt it if you only have an older HDMI port. 00:09:14.431 --> 00:09:17.560 That's my sales pitch for that. If you guys enjoyed this video, 00:09:17.560 --> 00:09:21.716 subscribe to ShortCircuit and I'll see you there. 00:09:21.716 --> 00:09:23.219 (whispering faintly)