I've been using this unit for about three weeks now, and it works well, giving me lots of extra ports for outboard hard drives and other peripherals

I've frequently check the event logs to confirm if any of my drivers are having issues and ever since setting these to this 13 port usb hub all drives are working without errors.

so it wouldn't work so well for hard drives or USB wifi, but it fits really well into that niche market.

" I take the hard drives out and place them into external enclosures.

I still have four units left and will connect some hard drives and thumb drives.

I have dozens of gadgets that need to be charged, like earphones, portable drives, phones

2 printers, 2 mice and a keyboard, 3 external hard drives with their own power supplies attached.

Whats really nice about this is I can charge my cell phone, sync it with my computer, keep the printer plugged in, charge my bluetooth, keep my external hard drive plugged in, charge my GoPro and link my second computer to the other

I attach three portable hard drives to my laptop and they all work at the same time.

I attach three portable hard drives to my laptop and they all work at the same time.

I might get the USB 3.0 version for my faster drives next

Like it kept 4 external hard drives going at once

I now have 10 of those slots permanently filled and I routinely use two of the remains three for USB sticks of a quick backup to a portable drive

Not enough power to drive bus powered external usb hard drives

I wanted these models as each has 13 ports, I have a lot of hard drives, flash drives, etc

Works great to start connecting my external hard drives to my media server, considering I ran out of USB ports with the mouse, fan, printer, etc

One key benefit is that I can switch off my two external hard drives when I turn off my laptop, yet keeping the other half on to charge other devices.

But in the last 2 days it can hardly keep two external hard drives going

This only recognizes two of seven hard drives.

I have a USB wi-fi antenna connected, a mouse, one or two external hard drives

Makes thinks less complicated with my external hard drives

Device performs well for hooking up multiple external hard drives

One of which is my 1TB external hard drive.

Used it with many different external hard drive devices.

By the time you plug in your USB keyboard and mouse, printer, a fitbit or like, wireless headphones and you still need to connect a camera card reader and a secondary hard drive you are out of space with your laptop.

I have 2 usb sticks and one external hard drive connected to it so far, and no power warning nor drains

I have several external hard drives and other peripherals and this is very handy for getting them all hooked to my laptop

Today when I plugged my trackpad into one of the empty slots for charging and turned on the other half of the hub, everything connected to both sides was disconnected including my external hard drives

I am a designer with numerous external hard drives on which I store my graphics and also my client files

Attached and ran simultaneously:-CAC reader-Phone USB to micro USB, used for Vysor link and charging-Gaming USB mouse-Flash storage-USB laptop cooling fan, with USB wireless keyboard/mouse reciever-PS/2 keyboard/mouse USB adapter-2 External hard drives

mostly, made one of my external hard drives

I plug in external drives, external cd rom and they all work.

I have eleven drives plugged in and ready to open when I need them.

I kind of miss having on/off switches at each input, but otherwise it's fine