Customer Reviews 

dodgy performance and continuous disconnects
2009-07-01I bought this hub to use with my external hard drives.
The hub provides poor performance in USB 2.0 mode with hard drives. The max I get usually is 64Mbps through this hub. Plugged directly into the same port gets me closer to 180Mbps.
There are also multiple disconnects where the hub just drops out and reconnects. I then get messages in windows about "this device may perform faster" (the usb 2.0 in 1.1 port message).
There are 7 ports, but I'd avoid using hard drives or ready boost usb flash drives. The chance of a disconnect is too high and could cause data corruption.

Good Product
2009-06-27The hub works as described. It is easy to mount or install due to its boxy shape. We secured one with cable ties like electricians use. That would be difficult to do with some of the odd shaped units on the market.

So good... you won't even know it's there
2009-06-16I plug so much junk into this USB hub. digital cameras, digital video cameras, external hard drives, card readers, trackball mouses (mice?), keyboards, digital video interfaces... nothing has ever phazed it. 2.0 -1.0 whatever!
I plug things in and out, I don't eject things, and I don't even have the DC power converter for it
I'm buying another for a different computer.
Buy this. It is a Beast

SO EASY !!!!!
2009-06-16BOUGHT ONE IN FEB. 09. PLUGGED IT IN AND PLUGGED ALL DEVICES IN. HAVE HAD ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEMS. AM ALMOST READY TO GET ONE FOR MY 2ND COMPUTOR!!!
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Does what it should
2009-06-05It's what you would expect a USB hub to be. I bought 3 of them for a USB drive duplicator I was making. Works fine. The one thing I wish it had was some mechanism to allow for stacking such as clips or screw holes through them or similar I ended up wrapping my 3 hubs in tape to accomplish the job.
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