ScottDotDot http://s.co.tt Babblings of a computer curmudgeon. Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:08:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 Sandisk Pro-Dock 4: Too Well-Made for My Purposes http://s.co.tt/2025/05/29/sandisk-pro-dock-4-too-well-made-for-my-purposes/ http://s.co.tt/2025/05/29/sandisk-pro-dock-4-too-well-made-for-my-purposes/#comments Thu, 29 May 2025 21:34:41 +0000 http://s.co.tt/?p=2384

I got this Sandisk Pro-Dock 4 card reader holder and laptop dock a while back for a bargain, hoping it would be somewhat slapdash in its electronics such that I could “convert” it to be used as a simple USB 3 card reader apparatus. Turns out, it’s so Thunderbolt that Zeus himself is scared.

The engineers at Sandisk (and/or Western Digital) did an absolutely masterful job with this hardware, though the product appears to have been let down by poor software/driver support. It seems to be discontinued now, which is a shame.

In this video, I tear down the thing and check out its components. Relatively high-res photos of the two internal circuit boards:

SanDisk - Pro-Dock 4 - PSU Markings - PXL_20250527_061822999 (ScottDotDot)

SanDisk - Pro-Dock 4 - Main Board - Top - PXL_20250527_062643518 (ScottDotDot)

SanDisk - Pro-Dock 4 - Main Board - Bottom - PXL_20250527_062643518 (ScottDotDot)

SanDisk - Pro-Dock 4 - USB Board - Top - PXL_20250527_063912792 (ScottDotDot)

SanDisk - Pro-Dock 4 - USB Board - Bottom - PXL_20250527_063252732 (ScottDotDot)

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