Powered USB Hub 3.0, atolla USB Hub with 4 USB 3.0 Data Ports and 1 USB Smart Charging Port, USB Splitter with Individual Power Switches and 5V/3A Power Adapter

I've got several USB hubs, some powered, and many are poorly made junk. This one is good. The included power supply is decent (not some Chinese "House Burner" PoS) and the hub works fine. I'm using it on my Mac Pro to take the keyboard and mouse into the USB2 front port of the Mac Pro and it works without problems. I use this method so that if I touch my mouse and discharge a static burst it won't wipe out and damage my internal Mac Pro USB ports. Like this unit so much that I bought a second which I'll take along with my MacPro Book as a portable USB3 hub. The hub itself is plastic but well made. Both the USB3 hub and the power supply are fairly light so they are easy to carry with other gear in the MacBook Pro carry bag. The USB cable that connects this hub to your laptop or PC is only about 1 ft long but thick and is of high quality. It is permanently attached to the hub unit -- a good thing, as it makes for a solid USB connection to the hub. It you want more distance between this USB3 hub and your PC then you'll want to buy a good USB extension cable. I've use this well made USB extension (6 ft) with no problems: "OKRAY 2 Pack USB 3.0 Extension Cable 6 Ft Nylon Braided USB Cable Extender - Type A Male to Female with Gold-Plated Metal Connector". After buying way too many USB hubs that failed and were poorly designed, this one is a "keeper".

I just got this today, as I am using it to link in an array of SSD Drives that hold movies in a MKV format and pipe them into my TV's USB Port. The TV only has 2 ports and I have a vast library of movies that I am converting to files on computer drives, currently thinking I should have opted for the larger model, (7 port). When I plug a cable into a port, I DO get a solid connection as you can tell by the friction of plugging it in, but there is a space of 2~3mm from the housing of the cable connector to the surface of the hub's body, not a big deal... so far and hoping it stays that way. It is much smaller than I had expected and very light. The cable are heavier than the unit, so I had to wire tie the cables (Power and out put) to the power cable for the TV, so it stays stable and won't fall to the floor. When I am ready to expand my inputs to my TV, enough time will have passed by to have a point of reference as to the quality of this device. No problem till then, then I will by from them again, only a larger scale model. For only $10 more I could have had 3 more ports. *Additional note: At first I thought the LED at ther ON/OFF switch wasn't responding. I was at fault, as I didn't hold the button long enough. I had only merely pushed it, but you really do have to give it a long push and then it responds properly. Changing my 4 stars to 5 stars.

I recently switched from using my desktop to my laptop for my daily driver, which for most wouldn't be a major issue if they only had 2 USB A female ports available. As someone who spends up to 10 hours a day working at my desk, I really need some "creature comforts". I.E. I have a wireless Evoluent vertical mouse to combat wrist problems, and I have my laptop on a stand so I'm not hunched over so I have a separate keyboard(early IBM Model M, which requires power). When I do need to use another USB device it became this major decision... Would I rather not use my mouse or my keyboard? This hub is everything I needed and more. It works with both the keyboard serial port adapter and my mouse dongle freeing up the USB-A female on the right side, and also adding 3 more ports on the hub itself. The ONLY issue I have is the ports are TIGHT and overall it feels very plasticky and "cheap", i.e. I was afraid I was going to break it when setting up and pushing the USB devices in. That didn't happen, so I would say that probably isn't a design flaw - but will update this review if that changes.

Since the moment I have 2 Raspberry PI 4B's, I have been struggling booting from USB3 SSD or SATA HD drives as the Raspberry PI 4B is very power critical. I use ArgonOne cases for my PI's and when it powers up it also suffers a small spike in power consumption when spinning up the fan. I tried numerous powered USB3 hubs, but all of them had the problem of power feedback to the USB3 port of the Raspberry PI and it simply won't boot from external HD's. But now with this powered USB3 HUB, I can boot directly from a SSD drive and mount the other SATA HD drive without any problems ! It is important though (at least for my config) that all the drives are connected to the HUB, and that the hub is connected at the LOWER USB3 port of the PI 4. The drives need to be 'on power' when the PI4 boots. Speeds I get with a standard SSD : between 250 - 350 MB/sec (depending on the linux distro, Ubuntu gives the highest throughput, 350 MB/sec, all other distros I tried peak up to 250-280 MB/sec) In the same HUB I also have a Seagate 1TB SATA HD, and the throughput stays stable around 120 MB/sec. I ordered two of these hubs, and they both perform fine on a PI 4B-4GB ('older' revision) and a PI 4B-8GB (Newer revision). I only tested for a week or so, with two external drives. But till now , it works 100%. If you have a Raspberry PI4 and are looking for a GOOD powered USB3 hub in order to connect SSD/SATA HD's, this is the only one I could find in almost 1,5 years. I wish I had bought this HUB earlier, would have saved me lots of time and frustrations!