Honestly, I notice little difference between TB1 and TB2 for the general personal usage I use TB for - I use both a 2012 i7 Mini Server (TB1) and a late-2013 rMBP (TB2) generally with DAS. The units in play here have been bulletproof. $210 gets several more ports than the Kanex unit including USB3 ports that have charging capability, plus eSATA, plus Ethernet, plus TB passthrough. Funny bit, the unit w/o the cable is $300 but w/ the cable it's $90 less. I looked, they're still available on Amazon. If it were my personal money, I'd spend about $125 more and buy the dock we're using in my offices, the HighPoint RocketStor 6351A TB dock. IMO there isn't anything else like it out there. The TB electronics' cost put these at about $70-80. I'll be looking to Kanex again for a TB3 solution like this. Version one is a TB>eSATA/USB3 adapter and version 2 is a TB>Ethernet/USB3 - both have served us well. The adapter is made by Kanex and there's two versions, which was created by a user poll on their website another company sells a re-branded product. Relevant to what you're looking for I can only recommend one adapter and one "dock". I am moving it, and myself, to the USB-C interface by the end of this year. I own/run a small engineering company and, therefore, have vendors showing up with toys, er, equipment to demo.
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