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If you’ve followed our work for any length of time, you already know my affinity for ProGrade equipment. It’s been that way for quite some time, and in many respects, I’m probably the ideal ProGrade client. My work goes well beyond reviewing digital gear and flash technology. I shoot tens of thousands of photos and videos each month, all of which flow through the PG20 Dock Thunderbolt 4 and ProGrade readers to my PC, and then most often onto one of my PG10 external SSDs for storage. I snapped this photo two years back while travelling across Canada with The Rolling Barrage, a Coast to Coast annual ride to combat PTSD.
Only a few months back, we reported on the ProGrade Digital PG20 Thunderbolt 4 Hub, along with PGM12 Single Slot USB4 CFExpress Type-A Memory Card Reader, Single Slot USB4 CFExpress TypeB Memory Card Reader, a two-pack of USB4 40Gbps flex cables, PG10 4TB External Solid State 4.0 Workflow Drive, PG10.5 4.0 2TB External Mini Solid State Workflow Drive, 1.6TB CFexpress Cobalt 4.0 Type-B Memory Card, PGD Gold 2TB CFExpress Type-B 4.0 Memory Card, and the Gold 480GB CFExpress 2.0 Type-A VPG 200 Memory Card. This was ProGrades move to Thunderbolt/USB 4.0 and those reports can be found here. Pure digital perfection at last…
Quite unexpectedly, we received the newest ProGrade PG25 Thunderbolt 5 dock in the mail this week and this Dock doubles its speeds from 40Gbps to 80Gbps and adds so much more.
This package includes the PG25, Lite-On power adapter and plug, along with a Thunderbolt 5 certified 80Gbps Type-C cable. There are also Kensington and Nano security ports on the side of the device.
On the front of the PG25, we have a 3.5mm audio port, two Type-A and a Type-C USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps ports, a 140 80Gbps watt charging upstream port, along with the power switch. There is also that standard ProGrade magnetic top to keep all add-ons in place.
On the back is the power port, three 15 watt 80Gbps Thunderbolt 5 downstream ports, another USB 3.2 10Gbps Type-C port along with a 2.5 Gbe high speed ethernet port.
One of the most beautiful features of the PG25 is that the new 80Gbps transfer speed allows for simultaneous connection of dual 4K 144 Hz/8K 60Hz displays
As well, we are free to connect as many devices as we may have on hand. In our setup as seen here, we have included the original PG20 in our build, along with our PG10, CFExpress A and B, along with SD and microSD readers.
The ProGrade Digital PG25 is Win 11+ and MacOS 11+ compatible and has a MSRP of 299.99 with a 2-year limited warranty. Check Amazon.