Thunderbolt may look like a regular USB-C port on the side of your Mac or PC, but one look at CalDigit’s new TS4 Thunderbolt dock shows just how incredibly powerful it is.

Thunderbolt is fast. Really fast. And more than that, it provides a really fat pipe so you can pump all sorts of data streams through it, simultaneously, without any delays. So you can plug in a monitor or two, some SSDs, plus audio gear, an Ethernet connection and more, and they’ll all run through a single port on the side of your laptop. And it can power all that gear, too.

"I also use a Thunderbolt dock to keep my setup organized," sales professional and Thunderbolt dock user Shawn Gonzales told Lifewire via email. "It used to feel like my desk was drowning in a sea of cables. Now everything is neatly organized because the dock gives me a central location to plug in my cables and keep them out of the way."

CalDigit’s new 18-port TS4 dock is the successor to its excellent TS3+. It adds a few more ports, more power, more speed, and gets rid of one connector. But most of all, it shows why Thunderbolt is so great and why, even at $360, it’s a great deal.