USB C Hub, 6 in 1 USBC Multiport Adapter with 10Gbps 2 USB C 3.2 and 2 USB A 3.2 Data Port, 4K 60Hz HDMI, 100W Power Delivery for MacBook Pro/Air, iPad Pro, iMac, Surface, XPS and More

I just finished building my new PC as my old perfectly capable Windows 10 PC Microsoft was deemed incompatible with Windows 11! As I built my old PC in 2013, I had to get my techy 18 year old grandson to help me select parts. The case I bought is a good one but to my dismay the front USB ports are on the bottom of the case! Due to my existing multiple USB plus other cables in the rear, I had to set the PC on the floor (on a new roller platform). This made USB access for cables/devices that can vary every day (I.E. Cell Phone) troublesome for an 82 year old man. This extender is the perfect solution of convenience and performance for my day to day USB Type A needs. I have it connected to a USB A 3.2 10GB (Red) port in the rear of the PC. The extender ports are the same. I have double sticked attached the the top of the front top of the PC.

I bought this to use as a more convenient spot on my desk to attach USB devices, rather than having to plug them into the computer, and it's attached in place with double-stick foam tape. The cable was a good length... I understand why many manufacturers of these kinds of small hubs usually opt for a very short cable (since the assumption is that it will be used right next to a laptop computer in a travel situation), but I'm glad that there are at least a few available that have a longer cable. I chose this hub because it had both USB-C and USB-A ports, was 10gbps, met the physical requirements of what I was looking for, and had a port for supplying power to the hub. The hub is very lightweight, I'd even go so far to say that it feels a bit on the fragile side. But hopefully durability will be ok. Speed on all four ports was good (see attached screen shots... this was a Samsung T7 Shield 2TB, with an M1Max MacBook Pro). Directly connected to the computer was, naturally, a bit faster, but through the hub is fast enough. In other words, it is indeed a 10gbps connection, even if it's slightly slower. Though my typical usage won't require it, I went ahead and supplied power to it via a USB-C cable and charger... without this, two SSDs and a flash drive mount fine, but trying to add a portable hard drive, the hard drive would not spin up (which is not the fault of the hub... that's just too much power being drawn from the host port). With the power cable attached, that hard drive (in addition to the other devices) worked fine. I'm glad the manufacturer included this capability.

so worth the price of admission! The primary issue I had with my previous Inateck USB 3.0 USB-C hub I was looking to solve is ensuring both video *and* audio come out through the HDMI output of the hub connected to my 2020 M1 MacBook Pro. A secondary issue that is solved is the hub is super slim and compact and you can easily tuck it out of sight which helps the desk look less cluttered (and great for travel) which is always a plus. A note about HDMI support: I found out if you connect the HDMI output of this hub *and* you have the 2nd Thunderbolt port of your MacBookPro outputting USB-C video, you have to unplug the USB-C video cable for the HDMI output to become live. This may very well be a limitation of the M1 chip but I could have sworn it was possible to drive the *same* image on two external monitors. My only gripe and why I've docked a star is I'm not getting a full 10 Gbps throughput of the USB 3.2 ports. They are better than USB 3.0 but not as good as what I'm experiencing connecting directly to the Thunderbolt/USB 4.0 ports on my 2020 M1 MacBook Pro (see attached screenshots, 3 testing NVMe enclosure over USB-C and 2 testing an HDD dual SATA dock over USB-A) I may need to do additional tests so if I get completely different results, I'll update this review. It is also obvious the hub doesn't get as warm (when idle) as my old Inateck so I feel the hub will last longer. I have HDMI, a dual SATA dock with a 6TB HDD, a USB-A BT adaptor, a 10 Gbps NVMe enclosure, and a USB-C adaptor with a 512GB micro SD all attached (see photo) and the hub is operating like a champ without being warm to the touch when idle. This personally gives me more peace of mind. I do miss having a built-in SD card reader and Ethernet port in the hub but in reality, (1) I'm winding down my use of micro SD as they are soooo much slower than NVMe and (2) if you have fast WiFi 6 in the house, WiFi is fine for casual use. I know I can always daily chain my old Inateck hub if I really need Gigabit Ethernet (which isn't going to be often). The benefit at the end of the day is I prefer having 4 *generic* USB 3.2 ports (2 USB-A and 2 USB-C) to attach what I wish. There is a sticker on the hub that clarifies 2 things that are confusing in the instructions: (1) there is *no* USB-C video passthrough. I have a Dell USB-C monitor that is able to provide 65W power, a USB 3.2 hub, and accept video over a single USB-C cable. If you really want this convenience, you are better of getting a Thunderbolt hub. More recent USB-C hubs support video over USB-C but what I realized after doing a lot of research is these USB-C ports only support data and video and *not* power - so this means that your USB-C monitor *can't* power the USB-C hub and charge your laptop and you need a *separate* power supply to connect to the PD port on the Aceele USB-C hub (which defeats the purpose as you'll need to take yr laptop AC adapter out of yr travel bag and plug it in all the time & create more clutter) (2) the USB-C PD port *cannot* be used for data (so it sits empty and unused for me, see comment below that the hub does *not* require power if powered by Thunderbolt). Contrary to what one of the reviews reported, you do *not* need a power supply connected to the hub (I am powering the hub using a Thunderbolt port so this could be why). The PD port on the hub exists to charge your laptop. I already have my USB-C monitor connected to the 2nd Thunderbolt port providing power so in my configuration, I have no need of the PD port on this hub. Overall, for what it costed (got it on sale for half the price), it's a great upgrade to hold the fort until the prices of Thunderbolt hubs/docks come down to Earth. It may not have the fastest speeds for any NVMe enclosures you have connected but if you're data transfer needs are not demanding (no video editing), it's fine.

This works perfectly on my iMac so I don't have to reach around behind it every time I want to plug in my iPhone or a shared external CD player. It transfers video from my iPhone perfectly despite the warning stating that it doesn't handle video. It's exactly what I needed to bring those USB-C ports around front.

so far so good! $ system_profiler SPUSBDataType USB: USB 3.1 Bus: Host Controller Driver: AppleT8103USBXHCI USB 3.1 Bus: Host Controller Driver: AppleT8103USBXHCI USB 3.0 Bus: Host Controller Driver: AppleEmbeddedUSBXHCIFL1100 PCI Device ID: 0x1100 PCI Revision ID: 0x0010 PCI Vendor ID: 0x1b73 USB3.1 Hub : Product ID: 0x0822 Vendor ID: 0x2109 (VIA Labs, Inc.) Version: 2.13 Serial Number: 000000001 Speed: Up to 5 Gb/s Manufacturer: VIA Labs, Inc. Location ID: 0x02600000 / 14 Current Available (mA): 900 Current Required (mA): 0 Extra Operating Current (mA): 0

Edit 1 year later - It's just more instant landfill from (you-know-where). I originally gave this a glowing review with more detail than I usually write (or was probably needed) because I felt like it perhaps was one of those products that had a lot of room for error (using the wrong wattage power brick, this USB 3.2 Gen1 x2 garbage that literally no consumers understand, and USB-C inconsistency) but when used properly with compatible hardware and ports it was actually a decent product. The problem lies with the half-wits that set USB industry standards and their ever-changing classifications that become even more confusing with each change, then, to really mess with people, they make changes retroactive. Then they throw USB-C on the pile with no set industry standards for manufacturers, making USB-C ports on devices that could be anything between Thunderbolt4/USB4 (8k video/DP-alt mode/PD/10+ gbps data) or it could be a plain old USB 3.0 data only port made in the C size (no video/no DP-alt mode/no PD/bring-a-book speed). Confusing legions of consumers purchasing USB-C dock/hubs/peripherals/displays/etc. and are surprised when the USB-C cord into the USB-C port on their laptop andn it doesn't work like it should, or not at all. While all of those things are still true and plague consumers, this is just more junk for the pile. Last maybe 6 months before it started randomly disconnecting and reconnecting then it moved on to making Windows throw the "USB Device is Unrecognized" error we all so loath to the point that it now does that 100% of the time rendering the device useless junk. Sure, it was an inexpensive item, but I'm tired of being sold garbage, literally. I don't care how cheap it was, I expect more than 6 months of light home office use before it starts failing. To make matters worse, if you try to contact the seller for product support or to inquire about the warranty they claim to offer, it is noted that Amazon handles customer service for the seller which amounts to generic "troubleshooting" steps followed by nothing. It is assumed those canned "is it plugged in?" steps will fix you up. If you back out of that dead-end and skip “troubleshooting” (just always skip it, it's worthless for any product I've ever tried), you are given a link to the manufacturer to get technical support. Great, now we are getting somewhere...and it's a 404 page not found error. That's it, that's all there is. End, Fin. There is no path forward in the process. To recap ---> Seller? "eh, talk to Amazon" ---> Amazon? "eh, is it plugged in? This is hard, talk to the manufacturer" ---> Manufacturer? 404 page not found. Now what? 5 stars is officially retracted and retroactive. 1 star is the correct rank. The mark of failure for a product/seller. To mirror the failure of the USB hub, the failure to have any product support and failure to honour warranty by-way-of obfuscation. Enjoy! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original Review - for posterity and if anyone cares I'm giving 5 stars even though this 4 port hub has some limitations. I think expectations need to be properly set is the key here This is a simple 4 port USB A 3.2 port splitter, I think calling it a hub implies something more robust than this device actually is No, you aren't going to be able to use this as a docking station, but it's not meant to be. It's a run of the mill port splitter that happens to also have a unique (to its size and price point) feature - a USB C port for no reason other than providing power to the device itself. Not to be confused with "PD/power delivery" or "passthrough" where you plug your laptop power supply into the hub, then the hub pssses through the power to the laptop thereby allowing the data and video functions to still be used from that laptop's USB C port that otherwise would have been monopolized by the power supply alone. This is not that. Okay now that we aren't comparing apples with oranges I'll tell you why I like this so much that I ended buying 4. This is a cheap and easy way to externally power your external SSDs. When I upgrade an NVMe SSD to a larger size in my PCs I keep the old one, then buy a *compatible* USB enclosure, pop it in and then it becomes a super fast and easily portable external drive. Also, no separate power supply is needed since SSDs need such little power the current from the USB connection is usually enough. Usually. If you're connecting to a desk top PC then you're golden, you're not going to need external power for USB attached SSDs *but* if you are using a laptop then it's a different story. Laptops are made to be as light and efficient as possible with most machines using 45w or 65w power supplies with performance models sometimes up to 90w. Compared to a desktop that's not a lot This means that USB power output from a laptop port is limited to what's left over after it takes what it needs to run. Usually, enough power left over to send out through the USB ports to supply the connected peripherals. These are typically low powered items like mouse, keyboard, and perhaps an external drive (CD/SSD/flash drive, etc.). But if you're like me and have like 4 or 5 mouse/keyboard dongles and 3 SSDs spread over 2 USB hubs all crammed into the only 2 USB ports on my laptop, then you're going to start having issues with keeping all the devices plus your laptop satiated with that finite amount of juice from those little 45w/65w/90w power supply. You're computer's performance will degrade noticably as it throttles itself to keep power usage down so that your periferals won't start doing weird stuff, if they work at all. You have a few options - 1) only keep one SSD plugged in at a time, which isn't practical, 2) get a proper, fully self-powered docking station with plenty of juice to feed everything simultaneously, but those are $$$ not cheap (some even costing as much or more than the laptop), or 3) buy a couple of these suckers. probably went overboard but I got one for each drive (and only a single drive per hub to essentially give them all of their own power supplies (and I have a 4th hub that I plug all my dongles into together since those are all such low power}. Since I've gone to this setup, my performance issues have gone away due to no more throttling, my mice/keyboards don't have erratic behavior and the speed of the USB SSDs have ncreased dramatically. *I would avoid using more than one drive per hub because for some reason, even when fully powered, both drives read/write speeds tank, although both are still usable no problem, just slow is all.

I feel kind of bad to leave 3 stars because honestly, it's not terrible for the price. The speeds are there. 10Gbps combined max, but each port can do up to 10Gbps individually. It's just finicky though. I have power supplied to it (I got the model without PD passthrough, but can be supplied with additional power to help) and yet my SSD stops being detected after it's been idle for a while, and won't be detected at all upon a cold boot. In both scenarios I have to unplug and plug it back in for detection. Changing windows power settings doesn't change anything. Maybe it's okay on someone else's computer, but it isn't for mine. The second issue is that I also have to make sure that one of the C ports has the cable plugged in with a correct orientation, meaning it gets USB 2.0 speeds if you don't flip it around. That undoes one of the benefits of a C port and having to guess and check speeds makes it a hassle. So to reiterate the two issues: 1.) It has device detection issues possibly due to power supply, and 2.) USB C cable orientation matters for one of its C ports. That said, it's not terrible for its price considering how affordable it is compared to other hubs, and does get the job done in the end. You get what you pay for I suppose.

I bought the hub so I could add some more usb ports avaliable on my pc. Works well, easy installation.