So in the end I have configured it like this: You should note that a Thunderbolt dock is cheaper than a Thunderbolt Hard drive. Arrived next day so really happy….okay, €250 lighter but happy. I understand you can also use a thunderbolt external hard drive but you need to make sure it has two Thunderbolt slots.Īnyway, I bought a Thunderbolt Express Dock by Belkin off the Amazon.es site. So, the solution was to “daisy chain” the LED display to the Thunderbolt display using a Thunderbolt hub in between and it worked first time right off the bat. Later models I believe have 2 x thunderbolt ports.Īccording to the apple store sales guy, it should have worked fine but it didn’t and after researching through the apple forums the conclusion was that its not possible to daisy chain an LED to Thunderbolt (even though the LED has thunderbolt cable).
#Thunderbolt 2 external hard drive daisy chain pro
NOTE: I have a 2011 Mac Book pro which only has 1 single TB port hence my need to daisy chain the displays.
The screen on the left is an Apple LED 27′ Cinema display and the one on the right is an Apple Thunderbolt 27′ Cinema display and when I went and plugged my LED screen into the TB display to extend my screen space, the TB display works fine but the LED display remains dead, nothing happens not even a flicker. The base drive ships with a high-speed 7200RPM hard disk for reasonable USB3.0 and TBolt performance in the 200+Mbps range. However, getting the displays to work was not without its issues. Hybrid SSD / HDD ThunderBolt 2 Drive ThunderBolt 2 SSD HDD Hybrid Optional PCIe SSD Backplane LaCies hybrid D2 ThunderBolt 2 external drive is an interesting innovation. W00t! Just went and invested in a thunderbolt cinema display as a second screen and ran out of space on my desk, so have built a nice little extension on the right to house my other gadgets and its starting to look like Nasa control centre!