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Select Stores: Western Digital WD Black D50 RGB Game Dock (Thunderbolt 3)

& More In-Store Purchase Only

$50

$80

37% off
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Micro Center has select Western Digital WD Black Game Docks (Thunderbolt 3 Connectivity) for the prices listed. In-store purchase only.

Note: Availability for pickup may vary by location.

Thanks to Community Member turns2stone and SD Moderator Mbilo for finding this deal.

Available:Features (D50):
  • Multi-Port Gaming Connectivity
  • 2 x Thunderbolt 3
  • 1 x DisplayPort 1.4
  • 2 x 10 Gb/s USB Type-C
  • 3 x 10 Gb/s USB Type-A
  • 1 x 3.5mm Audio Input/Output
  • 1 x Gigabit Ethernet
  • Up to 87W of Passthrough Charging
  • Customizable RGB Lighting

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  • About this deal:
    • This price is $30 lower (37% savings) than the list price of $79.99
  • About this product:
    • 5-Years Limited Warranty

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Written by turns2stone
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Micro Center has select Western Digital WD Black Game Docks (Thunderbolt 3 Connectivity) for the prices listed. In-store purchase only.

Note: Availability for pickup may vary by location.

Thanks to Community Member turns2stone and SD Moderator Mbilo for finding this deal.

Available:Features (D50):
  • Multi-Port Gaming Connectivity
  • 2 x Thunderbolt 3
  • 1 x DisplayPort 1.4
  • 2 x 10 Gb/s USB Type-C
  • 3 x 10 Gb/s USB Type-A
  • 1 x 3.5mm Audio Input/Output
  • 1 x Gigabit Ethernet
  • Up to 87W of Passthrough Charging
  • Customizable RGB Lighting

Editor's Notes

Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $30 lower (37% savings) than the list price of $79.99
  • About this product:
    • 5-Years Limited Warranty

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Written by turns2stone

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sr27
This is not common knowledge. But leave it to Intel to invent something and cripple it. Not the first time they have done it thinking it will win them market share.

We also have to thank Intel for HDCP whose sole purpose was to prevent some niche pirating that was not a huge problem. A shitty evil
Corp all around.
turns2stone
Every port on a Thunderbolt 4 device that isn't Thunderbolt (i.e. a path to support internal SSD) must share a single 10GBps slice of USB bandwidth.

https://www.owc.com/blog/whats-th...nderbolt-4

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I agree that these look like nice features for the price, especially considering the rare SSD slot. Here's the 1TB version for $99 in case the other is out of stock.

https://www.microcenter.com/produ...10bbk-nesn
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Quote from turns2stone :
Also, to get out ahead of "why isn't this Thunderbolt 4?" Well, TB4 can't support a dock with 4 lanes of PCIe which is what you'd need for fast NVMe storage. In other words, if this used TB4, your SSD would cap out at ~700MB/s. But you can expect ~2,500MB/s for quality SSDs in this dock, because it uses TB3.
That seems highly suspect and false information. Where do you get that TB4 can't supports a dock with 4 lanes of PCIE?
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pelo
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Do you need an Apple product or a high-end laptop to drive this, no? You can not use a regular USB3 or USB-C from your middle-of-the-road desktop motherboard, or am I missing something.
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Quote from pelo :
Do you need an Apple product or a high-end laptop to drive this, no? You can not use a regular USB3 or USB-C from your middle-of-the-road desktop motherboard, or am I missing something.
Need thunderbolt 3, so most desktop motherboards won't have it, but relatively newer laptops probably will (or most of the mac lineup)
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SomethingAzn2
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Quote from Mbilo :
I agree that these look like nice features for the price, especially considering the rare SSD slot. Here's the 1TB version for $99 in case the other is out of stock.

https://www.microcenter.com/produ...10bbk-nesn [microcenter.com]
Other way to look at it is 1TB ssd for $50 more which is not a bad price / TB
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SomethingAzn2
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Would have been perfect if it didn't require external power. However, you do get around 2000 R/W which is better than the 1000 R/W of most SSD enclosures. And the 20Gbps enclosures usually cost $40 by themselves
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Quote from misterputz :
That seems highly suspect and false information. Where do you get that TB4 can't supports a dock with 4 lanes of PCIE?
Every port on a Thunderbolt 4 device that isn't Thunderbolt (i.e. a path to support internal SSD) must share a single 10GBps slice of USB bandwidth.

https://www.owc.com/blog/whats-th...nderbolt-4
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Can you hook this up to a USB-C port and use it too?
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Quote from Gameross :
Can you hook this up to a USB-C port and use it too?
no. Must be Thunderbolt.
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Hello I am extremely dumb when it comes to computers is this like an external hard drive?
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Quote from SlickStraw6606 :
Hello I am extremely dumb when it comes to computers is this like an external hard drive?
This is like a splitter that gives you more ports and also has a slot for drive built in. You have to supply your own drive
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Quote from -Uncharted- :
Because it's common knowledge in the IT world

This is not common knowledge. But leave it to Intel to invent something and cripple it. Not the first time they have done it thinking it will win them market share.

We also have to thank Intel for HDCP whose sole purpose was to prevent some niche pirating that was not a huge problem. A shitty evil
Corp all around.
Last edited by sr27 December 25, 2024 at 07:11 AM.
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This might be the most well written deal description ever. Thank you sir/maam!

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I got it a few days ago. ssd runs hot. otherwise pretty good.