I have a Thunderbolt 1 dock from them and it's excellent. It will also power and charge up a new MacBook with USB-C/Thunderbolt 3. OWC makes a Thunderbolt-3 dock with an SD Card reader in the front panel. I just googled for comparisons of TB2 docks and in the handful of articles that compared various TB2 docks, none of the docks had an SD card slot. I'm pretty sure these were A/C-powered docks the expectation being that you'd use them for attaching and detaching your "stay at home" peripherals not for adding SDxC slots on the road. There were several Thunderbolt 2 docks, aimed at Mac owners, that had SDxC readers, back in the (not long gone) days when rMBPs still had SDxC slots. That is because Apple discontinued SD card readers on a number of their products. Incidentally, two of the announced TB3 docks have SD carders, showing how much these docks are directly at MBP users, given that the MBPs with TB3 have lost their SD card slot. Except for the fact that it appears that no TB2 dock with SD card reader exists.
In principle, a TB2 dock with SD card reader would be such an insanely-expensive-for-absolutely-no-benefit SD card reader.
If anything bottlenecks you, it is likely to be the speed of the HDD to which you are copying the files, or, perhaps, overhead within the GUI/filesystem/OS. A fast SDXC card might be rated for a maximum read speed of 95 MB/s. USB 3.0 has a nominal bandwidth of 5 Gb/s (625 MB/s).
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I don't think any SD cards are fast enough to hit the USB3 ceiling so Thunderbolt 2 will not download any faster. A USB 3.0 only version of the hub that supported the same modules was $54. The hub appeared to be (educated guess) using Thunderbolt to add one or more external USB 3.0 ports.
It was a $200 hub to which you could add up to four $25 – $35 card reader modules.Īll indications were that the modules were USB-only. There is at least one card reader with Thunderbolt connections – not counting some of the general-purpose Thunderbolt hubs that add many kinds of ports.
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Does anyone know if there's an SDHC card reader with Thunderbolt 2 connections or if I am SOL and have to make due with USB 3 until I upgrade to a MBP with Thunderbolt 3/USB-C?
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