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OWC's Black Friday Sale Has Steep Discounts on Docks, Drives, and Mac Accessories

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OWC kicked off its Black Friday sale this week, offering big discounts on a variety of USB-C docks, external drives and enclosures, and Mac accessories. Some of these deals won't be applied until you add the items to your cart, at which time an automatic coupon will be applied to your order.

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There are a few notable deals in this sale, including $130 off the popular 14-Port Thunderbolt Dock for Mac, available for $149.99, which is the steepest discount we've seen since the summer on the accessory. If you purchase a qualifying new or used Mac at the same time as this dock, you can get an additional $20 off the accessory at checkout.

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Article Link: OWC's Black Friday Sale Has Steep Discounts on Docks, Drives, and Mac Accessories
 
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I bought that 14-Port Thunderbolt Dock for Mac four years ago at the same discounted price. Surprised it's still around unchanged. I suppose when you consider inflation it's in some ways cheaper now.
 
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They also have a black friday sale on used 2019 Mac Pro’s. Seems to be around the same price as buying form eBay
 
I've purchased many products from OWC over the past 15 years. Drives, docks, used Mac's and only had one travel hub that I had a problem with. Overall I've had a great experience. The external drives last and last.
 
They keep pushing this same dock for the same "steeply discounted price," year after year.
At this point it should be at least Thunderbolt 4.
 
chelsel said:
I would NEVER buy another OWC product again after their external backup storage unit irreparably failed on me. years ago. Overpriced junk.
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Yeah, I gave away the OWC dock mentioned here to a friend and ended up buying a much better one with a lot more expansion options, like multiple HDMI and DisplayPort connections and more USB ports. I'm not saying the OWC was bad, just I found better options.

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I bought an 8TB Thunderblade V4 for the equivalent of USD 2k three years ago. It‘s superfast (or was at the time), but it took OWC months to deliver a stable SoftRaid version. And now I‘m supposed to foot an annual bill so that the hardware remains usable.

Was enough to keep me away from their store for good.
 
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Yeah, I gave away the OWC dock mentioned here to a friend and ended up buying a much better one with a lot more expansion options, like multiple HDMI and DisplayPort connections and more USB ports. I'm not saying the OWC was bad, just I found better options.

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Is that one of the Kensingtons?? I have a similar one of theirs saved in my Amazon list for awhile now just waiting for the right price on it.
 
Monotremata said:
Is that one of the Kensingtons?? I have a similar one of theirs saved in my Amazon list for awhile now just waiting for the right price on it.
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OWC_TAL said:
I'd recommend to check out the standard license of SoftRAID. It's free and should allow you to use your Thunderblade.
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Um, yes. In a rather minimalistic way. Monitoring functionality and (re-)configuration of volumes are switched off. I’d be ok with a fee for major upgrades every now and then. But that you basically sell hardware to lock customers into a subscription model pisses me off. And I’m stating it here so that potential buyers can make proper full cost calculations.
 
Donkey Man said:
Unreliable docks, to say the least.
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This was my limited personal experience as well. I bought a TB2 dock, cannot remember exactly the problems but I do recall the main connection was erratic.
Problem solved with Pluggable dual display dock. Loved it, no problems ever, am actually just selling it as my monitor functions as KVM and hub too.
 
Terrible service and Envoy Ultra (TB5 drive) is NOT compatible with MacOS Tahoe 26!

So I bought this a year ago and could not install the latest Mac OS and discovered the rubber, non-detachable cord decayed and was showing the inner wire. So the time wasted on that alone eliminated all time savings from this faster driver many times over. But wait, it gets worse.

So after being a customer for over 20 years, I was given the option of paying $627 dollars for an advance replacement which was sent and arrived in a week. When that one arrived it immediately failed and gave me an EFI error in Disk Utility which could not be repaired. My original drive had the same issue. No matter what I tried I couldn't even get the drive to stay mounted! So emailed and with their slow response I ultimately called and wasted an hour on the phone with a tech person who wasted more of my time and didn't even understand the Mac Mini model I had. I had to explain things repeatedly and then I now had 2 drives to return. So he had no idea how to set it up to return 2 drives in one box and he'd get back to me. He didn't. So I had to call again 2 days later and finally got someone who said yes, I can ship both back in one box and gave me a 2nd RMA. That took 30 minutes! So that gets to them and they claimed they refunded it 2 days later which is fine. But they took 5 days to actually send the replacement drive, ignored my request for the fastest shipping possible since I'd now gone weeks without my main booting drive and had no backup drive since I was having to use my older, slower backup drive as my boot drive.

So the 3rd one finally arrived 2 weeks after I shipped the 2 defective ones back and sure enough, I run Disk Utility and it has the same errors as the other 2! Clearly they haven't even tested it for Tahoe compatibility. I've been asking why I don't have my money back yet after 2 weeks and asked for proof it was refunded. They ignored that and said it could take another 10 days.
Well I check another account and they refunded the cheaper, original charge from a year ago onto the wrong account! So I was charged and extra $20 for this nightmare, refunded the wrong amount on the wrong account, and now have to pay off my credit card without having received the money I paid for the advance replacement a month ago.

I am done with OWC. Junk products. Terrible support, and complete incompetence. They've literally stolen from me!

Update: It gets worse! They didn't refund the whole amount when they got the defective advance replacement drive back because they said customer damaged the cable. The entire RMA was set up because their junky cable is inherently defective. After another 2 hours on the phone the other day, they said the advance replacement drive was indeed defective and they just put the same drive in a new case, ran some speed test and that was the extent of their testing. They didn't even try to replicate the EFI error and sure enough, it arrived and was as useless as the first time. So 5 weeks now, overcharged and still have no drive! Spent probably 30 hours now on all of this. Will take hundreds of years of use to make up for the time lost by the drive being faster. What a horrible company!
 
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Ursadorable said:
Yeah, I gave away the OWC dock mentioned here to a friend and ended up buying a much better one with a lot more expansion options, like multiple HDMI and DisplayPort connections and more USB ports. I'm not saying the OWC was bad, just I found better options.

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This looks like great connectivity for (I assume) a MacBook. When I used to be a road warrior, I would have loved this. But now as a desk-sitter, most of the ports on this dock replicate what's on my Mac Studio. Since I don't use a 2nd display, I put a hub with some USB-As on it and have most of what's shown in the picture. Looks great for a laptop-only user!
 
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