GIGABYTE GC-MAPLE RIDGE Thunderbolt 4

7/9/22 - picked the Acasis TBU401 and had some issues with the drives I had on hand not hitting the speeds I was expecting. I ordered some cables and ruled that out as well after testing with 5 different cables with mediocre results. Dug into a ton of different reviews and found 3 drives options that worked at speeds expected i.e. 2700/2700. Sabrent Rocket / Samsung 980 Pro / WD SN770. I picked up a couple of the SN770 1TB models and tested them on my laptop and there was a huge difference in speeds vs the 2 Phison E112 drives and my SN850 even. So, the 770's in the Acasis TBU401 w/ provided cable and a cheap $10 cable are hitting 3GB/s R/W There's a bit of a quirk though when hot plugging things that I'm still looking into on Linux but, my laptop using W11 hot plugging works just fine so, it seems there's a bus/driver quirk in Linux causing it to require a reboot to see the drive. The GCMR card itself works as expected with proper devices being connected to take full advantage of the speeds TB provides. I've noticed though the JHL8540 seems to produce faster results than whatever everyone is testing with by ~300MB/s on the read side and ~200MB/s on the write side. ///////////////////////////////////////// Bought a used one as a gamble for $60 here and have been looking into the option to add TB4 by digging into the specs of different cards since there's only 3 ASRock / GB / ASUS to choose from it was easy. ASR / GB TB4 cards both use a 5-pin cable to the MOBO header which ruled out the ASUS which is 14-pin for some reason. The additional 3-pin header GB uses doesn't seem to have any documentation anywhere even from GB. The GB card though offers 100W charging w/ 2 x 6 pin PCIE cables from the PSU which can be useful if you have a higher power demand device you want to charge off your desktop w/o yet another USB adapter plugged into the wall. The hesitation comes from each option from the 3 players should be ignored other than Asus which only works with Asus. The other thing is these cards regularly retail for ~$170 across the brands which is way too high for a couple of ports. Anyway.... some caveats.... I put the card in / added the 5-pin / USB cables + power and booted it up. I saw it showing up in the dmesg logs while booting on Linux and thought nothing more of it. I tested the ports with my phone and a USB-C drive to see if they lit up on the ports and they did. I didn't have time to poke around and actually look at it deeper than that and then came back to it to dig in a bit more wondering why the BIOS didn't have any TB options and dug into the manual and found which menu to go under to find them. So, I activated all the options regardless of the need / rebooted and tested again. This time looking at the syslog messages that popup when you add/remove a device to see what's going on from a technical standpoint. This time thought he phone gave me 3 options - charge only / data / something else. Syslog picked up more functions as well on each port. Also, being impatient the first time w/o the BIOS changes it seemed like one port wasn't producing power. Turns out it's more finicky on how it activates things. I flipped the connector on the cable and it worked... but I think it's more related to the hot plug ability of the ports needing some time to register the device. I still need to pick up a TB enclosure to test the bandwidth though. 0c:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 Bridge [Maple Ridge 4C 2020] (rev 02) 0d:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 Bridge [Maple Ridge 4C 2020] (rev 02) 0d:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 Bridge [Maple Ridge 4C 2020] (rev 02) 0d:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 Bridge [Maple Ridge 4C 2020] (rev 02) 0d:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 Bridge [Maple Ridge 4C 2020] (rev 02) 0e:00.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 NHI [Maple Ridge 4C 2020] 10:00.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 USB Controller [Maple Ridge 4C 2020] dmesg | grep -i Thunderbolt [ 0.834411] ACPI: bus type thunderbolt registered [ 0.834439] thunderbolt 0000:0e:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) Jun 30 17:01:41 server kernel: [ 1307.436287] usb 1-9: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd Jun 30 17:01:41 server kernel: [ 1307.586253] usb 1-9: New USB device found, idVendor=22d9, idProduct=2771, bcdDevice= 4.19 Jun 30 17:01:41 server kernel: [ 1307.586266] usb 1-9: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Jun 30 17:01:41 server kernel: [ 1307.586270] usb 1-9: Product: OnePlus 8 Pro Jun 30 17:01:41 server kernel: [ 1307.586273] usb 1-9: Manufacturer: OnePlus Jun 30 17:01:41 server kernel: [ 1307.586276] usb 1-9: SerialNumber: Jun 30 17:01:41 server mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 7: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-9" Jun 30 17:01:41 server mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 7 was not an MTP device Jun 30 17:01:41 server colord[3837]: CdMain: failed to emit DeviceAdded: failed to register object: An object is already exported for the interface org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Device at /org/freedesktop/ColorManager/devices/sysfs__null_ Jun 30 17:01:41 server mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 7: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-9" Jun 30 17:01:41 server mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 7 was not an MTP device Jun 30 17:01:49 server kernel: [ 1315.870749] usb 1-9: USB disconnect, device number 7 Jun 30 17:02:09 server kernel: [ 1335.407967] usb 1-10: new high-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd Jun 30 17:02:09 server kernel: [ 1335.564359] usb 1-10: New USB device found, idVendor=22d9, idProduct=2771, bcdDevice= 4.19 Jun 30 17:02:09 server kernel: [ 1335.564371] usb 1-10: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Jun 30 17:02:09 server kernel: [ 1335.564375] usb 1-10: Product: OnePlus 8 Pro Jun 30 17:02:09 server kernel: [ 1335.564379] usb 1-10: Manufacturer: OnePlus Jun 30 17:02:09 server kernel: [ 1335.564381] usb 1-10: SerialNumber: