Best Thunderbolt Dock EVER!!! | SanDisk Pro-Dock 4 - CFexpress Type B And More | Matt Irwin

[@BadKarma714]

Can you also put the SSD’s drives in them and turn into a Nas

[@NikonDave]

I bought one of these a few months back and love it. Really need a few SSD options to increase storage. Come on SanDisk.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Which units did you go for? Cheers Matt

[@NikonDave]

@@MattIrwinPhotography lol. Same as you. Two CF Express B and the Multi-Card. I find my CF Express B's get a little hot so not sure I want to try your hack just yet.

[@jeffreyneville9769]

Cool review of something unique with good build quality, thanks for sharing this info, didn't know this existed.

[@JRodPhotoArt]

Ok, this is a cool gadget, will add to the list of G.A.S. items!!! great video Matt.

[@randallbrander8157]

That 400mm is sharp. The argument I am seeing around KZbin channels is the 100-400 enough or the 70-200 with the teleconverters and this lens is what we need now? My opinion whatever Nikon decides to do I am for it. I do believe they are systematically putting out products that the people want. Unfortunately people are impatient and want it right now. I can wait and when the price is right I will get them. Stay Safe and Keep Smiling! Cheers!

[@blythewarland5459]

Randall I agree, I watch the mirrorless space with interest and I will move to it but currently I have higher financial priorities so I can wait

[@csc-photo]

I don’t think you can go wrong with any of these 3 amazing lenses. However, if MOST of your time is spent near or at the long end, the 70-200 with the 2x TC is not the best choice (image quality wise). Not that it’s not “acceptable” - the others are just better at 400. If MOST of your time is spent on the shorter end / middle, and you need the extra light of the 2.8, the 70-200 is the way to go. For my $ / use case, I’d likely go with the 100-400. As Matt says, it’s all about use case.

[@csc-photo]

Hey coincidentally, the Grays of Westminster just posted a 100-400 vs 70-700 + TC comparison vid, I saw it in my feed right after i posted my above reply 🙂

[@randallbrander8157]

@@csc-photo I watched it also. It seems the Deer were pretty tamed. IDK about the Kon Guy though. 😆

[@deathspawn54]

Lexar did exactly what you are asking about years back, worked great

[@jacquelynnacopoulos1278]

Hello, Congratulations. I am impressed about new sanddisk Pro Dock 4. Thank You For Advice Us. Someday I would plan to buy it anytime.

[@kernzilla]

re: NVME or SSDs, guessing they're having an issue getting true TB3 speeds within the dock. if i'm not mistaken, the G40 SSD fits inside of this, but would see the speeds drop to ~900mb vs what we see with these directly connected, which is ~2500+ via TB3. perhaps their way of making sure we'll buy the next one they release, and want to upgrade from this one lol.

[@S14N9LS]

That is freakin' perfect! Yes, please.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Yeah I am super happy so far :)

[@ronboe6325]

I picked up a CalDigit TS4 hub (have a TS3 for the iMac). Works very well, but does not have a built in CFExpress reader (wellm the Sandisk version doesn't either - but you can add one!). I see a lot to like; but for me, most of it is over kill for my use case. I agree, a way to include NMVe drives - that feature would make me seriously consider it. In the mean time I pick up external chassis to make my one external drives.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Yes the caldigit I was looking very closely at and is amazing also. 😀

[@AMGOSUK]

Me too I recently updated to TS4 and have had TS3 for a long time. The TS4 is Thunderbolt 4.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Yes for that type of product, I think it is best in market. It is also pretty expensive, but worth it.

[@DawahDigital]

Do I need a special cable for better faster speeds?

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

To the best of my understanding the cable it comes with will allow it to perform at its maximum :)

[@DawahDigital]

⁠@@MattIrwinPhotographyjust saw your reply. Thanks for sharing the video, it’s incredibly helpful. I bought the Sandisk pro card reader (cf/Sd/micro Sd) after your review. Honestly man, as a content creator myself I appreciate the time and thought you put into your videos. The production quality is excellent, and you’re very easy to watch and listen to. Really, a pleasure to see this level of content being created for us on KZbin. ❤

[@johnvaleanbaily246]

Matt, any problem with card transfer speeds ?

[@StoltHD]

Lexar had a similar a few years ago (approx. 8 years), both for USB and Thunderbolt the Lexar Workflow... Don't know if the Thunderbolt version had chaining functionality as a real docking station... but the unit had 4 slots for both card readers and SSD's...

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Wow I missed that. Sounds awesome.

[@DawahDigital]

What’s it like one year on?

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Going strong, use it everyday. Have taken the individual units away with me. It’s a great system. And the only thing next would be Thunderbolt 4. Thunderbolt 3 is still very fast, and it never feels slow. My guess is ⚡️4 won’t be anytime soon. 😀

[@chinmayn73]

Hey are you currently using the CF express with the storage card? how well is it working and are you editing off it? If you were to hook up an apple studio to the thunderbolt would that work? Would a sabrent switcher thunderbolt 3 work between an imac and a macbook pro and allow you to switch between which device can use the dock?

[@fpvtechnology837]

Can I plug SanDisk Professional PRO-READER SD and microSD Card Reader to my windows 10 PC that have only old USB 3 port? does it work? Of course I need USB-c to Usb 3 converter cable.

[@TheKjlongtine]

Does it have 10G connection on the Ethernet?

[@kylezeringue5673]

Good timing, Matt. I am picking up an M1 MacBook pro 16 this morning. I finally got adequately pissed at MS and the onedisk crap. This looks like a very interesting dock. Particularly if compatible plug and play hard drives come out for it. Please post more of your progress and what you learn for this beast. Adding a couple 4Tb drives would be a sweet option. And yes, now you give me even more taunting for the 400/4.5 lust! Cheers, Matt!

[@csc-photo]

Congrats, it’s an absolute beast of a laptop 👏🏻

[@helmutreitter9622]

can u tell me if the sad card reader ready for UHS-II card?

[@MrSchatech]

Oh without SSD option 😢 That was perfect for my motorhome-workflow with inbuild SSD

[@mikehyde8225]

I'd love to know if they will put hard drives in the modular form for the Pro Dock 4.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

I am hoping it is something that comes in the future. :)

[@adorsett]

Probably not because that would erode the market of their pro-blade system.

[@disco4178]

This is really cool but how do you deal with the cards (and possibly reader) getting very hot?

[@mjphotographyhk8778]

No SATA drive option🤦 for all of us with Atomos gear - Sandisk missed a huge money making opportunity by not offering a SATA/3.5” drive option🤦🤦🤦

[@CharlesSauer-lq6jh]

I just bought this thing…only to find out that sandisk has discontinued it and all its support. They do not offer the ‘utility’ software anymore.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Sorry to hear that, this video is 2.5 years old, and I did not know it had been discontinued. Surely the software is somewhere?

[@patrickmolloy6994]

I have a Synology disc station (14Tb) on my NAS, so apart from plugging in a card, I don't see the point of this Pro-Dock. I already have card readers,, plus I tend to just use the USB-C cable to plug the camera directly to my Mac . Makes image transfer a breeze plus the camera battery charges! Please lend me that gorgeous z400 4.5 😀

[@amaimani]

What model is it please?

[@patrickmolloy6994]

@@amaimani DS916+

[@Tactical_Nightwach]

This unit is for offloading huge data off of over 1tb at max speeds of 40gbps and keeping the cards cool and not melting 😂

[@jpdj2715]

At B&H the dock is US$489 and they only stock the SD-card reader for UHS-I. The idea is nice. But it is not for me: I use Windows and already have Sonnet's [*] TB3 dual slot CFexpress card reader. I have a Wise USB 3.2 Gen 2 dual slot UHS-II SD card reader daisy chained from the Sonnet and this works great. [*] The Sonnet did very well in speed tests, but, at least in Windows, has a quirk: a card must be present in the device at boot time or else it will not become visible. The Sonnet has its own power supply unit - a brick integrated in the power cord.

[@Gr1ff1D0]

I would like more Thunderbolt ports but the one you show looks too expensive without some form of HD option built in. I like the look of the LaCie 2Big drives too, but they have old style CF card reader slot not CfExp type B, so they are no help until they update the design. Still looking.

[@jdelarosa89]

I have been eyeing on of these since they were first announced. Still a little too pricey since the 500 bucks does not even come with one module.

[@JasonLorette]

That looks awesome, but oof that price tag, yikes. I like a lot of the features, maybe if it came with the three bays already configured (at your choice) the $499 wouldn’t hurt so much. Agree on the hard drive too. 😎📸

[@andreacook7431]

I'm surprised that there's only one monitor port. That's a deal breaker for me. 🙁

[@edwardv54]

If they ever make an NVMe module it should be a Bluetooth portable drive.

[@csc-photo]

First like / first comment 👏🏻

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Legend!

[@alexshdvideo]

Very interesting... as most companies race to the bottom to be $5 cheaper, Sandisk is saying, "hey we will make a platform product that you can keep and update for years, not just use and throw away when the cheap plastic part breaks....like on $30 card readers that the cats run around the house with stashing underneath the couch. " it's a maybe.

[@christophmuller3511]

A shame that these CFE modules don’t seem to read XQD as well…

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Yeah XQD was superseded by CFxpress almost 2 years ago, but perhaps if enough people ask they may consider making one ... I will throw a card into it and double check to see if it works :)

[@Bunnyisms]

The other tricky thing is all the CFExpress and XQD readers that read both formats seem to need you to install the special Sony driver to make the reader even able to read XQD cards. A lot of people seem to be having trouble installing the driver and it seems that Sony haven't done a good job keeping the driver up to date, especially for the new M1 Macs. I'd be very curious if this would work with XQD with the special Sony driver installed. I don't have any XQD cards at the moment though

[@christophmuller3511]

@@Bunnyisms I have a 50$ dual reader (unbranded chinesium from amazonia) which doesn’t need any drivers, just standard USB mass storage on USB3

[@EveningReport]

Thanks for your latest episode Matt! This looks a great addition. One thing, does the transfer read and write speeds hold up? Or is there some redundancy? If that storage idea you raised works, do you think this can/may replace NAS storage? Or, is it an addition to NAS with the added benefit of the reader modules? PS: Thanks for squeezing in New Zealand within the ANZAC acronym! Good stuff.

[@EveningReport]

PS: As mentioned below, the ability to slide a NMVe drive into a module would be super-cool.

[@AMGOSUK]

Hi Matt - I am glad you got yours "for free" - but the rest of us - WOW this is expensive -- £480 for the unit and £80-100 for each unit - so yours cost £760. -vs- £50 for a single CF Express Type B Card Reader. NOW I assume yours delivers power, can daisy chain T3 AND as you say it is convenient. It is only Thunderbolt 3, but then there is no T4 options available.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Hi AJ, As I said at the end of the video, I bought this unit. Happy to send you the Amazon receipt. Not sure where you got that idea from. Cheers Matt

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJ7MgYabfJ5rlZo just watch the 10 secs from this link :)

[@portblock]

Its awesome, but sadly a fail for me. Hear me out, its not cheap, so its not for the average hobbyist, thus I am lead to believe more professional, but it seams stuck between real commercial pro and hobbies. All my commercial work and those of other commercial studios transport files on SSD drives/cards. We either use the blackjet docks or the blackmagic dock. Since they already settled on this form factor, they cant add a standard SSD reader into. When I shoot tethered, its directly to an SSD, and thats transported back. - Again, let me repeat, its awesome, but not for me and I think it falls short. And yes I do have some of their stuff. I have the CFexpress reader and SD card reader in this form.

[@peterxyz3541]

I’m fearful……. “The best dock” by SanSisk….like, $600? $400?

[@blythewarland5459]

I need a better dock

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

I really like this one :)

[@blythewarland5459]

@@MattIrwinPhotography good morning Matt, hope it’s a good one

[@bruceconnelly1586]

Matt, Sorry but ANZACs are full of sugar and distinctly unhealthy but delicious..

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

@@bruceconnelly1586 Hi Bruce, we cut down the sugar in our mix, to very low ... we need to catch up, lots to share with you.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

@@blythewarland5459 Thanks Blythe, you too :)

[@xDJK]

I hope they will do a pro-blade carrier soon. Until then I will not buying this

[@coolbuddydude1]

The bay is way tooo expensive.

[@tonytfuntek3262]

If this unit included a few thunderbolt ports in the front and space for 2 SSD etc internally it would be worth the price but the way it stands it's overpriced.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

I think it is premium priced, due to being unique, with dock-able high quality card readers you can take on the road. I agree the fast the I/O on the front the better. For my particular use case, I like having a lot of devices once external now in one neat high quality box. :)

[@zenphotocraftmedia8326]

It's so expensive

[@casperghst42]

If not, then it would be kind of nice if the ethernet would be 10GbE, 1GbE at that price would be a joke.