10-PORT USB 3.1 HUB WITH POWER ADAPTER

Well constructed with a couple mounting options make for an easy installation. Every port provides power which is handy. I have one in my home office and I recommend one for every Mac Pro installation. An aftermarket USB-C to USB-B cable makes it easy to use with a MacBook Pro or other modern PC laptop workstation setups. Data wise I've successfully used several keyboards and mice, USB memory drives, USB extenders, a Flirc IR adapter, and even a cellphone. It's also handy for charging or supplying power to USB devices. The only thing I don't like are how bright the LEDs are in a dark room. A little tape on the power supply solves it's LED. But it would be nice if there was a dimmer setting for the blue LEDs on the unit...or if they were amber, orange, or even red.

This hub is well-built. I am running multiple external USB-powered hard drives with this, and there is no problem. Other hubs (including the house brand) have failed miserably with dismounts at inconvenient times and so on. It is made of metal so is very sturdy. One of the nice features is that every port is powered, so I can plug in my IPad into any free port and it will start charging. The main point, though, is that it is reliable. I plug something in, leave it there, and it just works.

I usually don't purchase anything from Amazon unless it has a very good rating/review. This item did not but at the price they were asking, it had to be a good product, right? I purchased this toward the end of March. The second week of April, the guts from the inserts started coming out when I unplugged a device, (See photo) meaning I had to dig it out of the USB male device end and put tape over the broken port. By the end of April, three of the ports failed and two more had the guts pull out when unplugging a device. I thought I could fix it or I would have returned it. Too late now. Just beware this item. It's a piece of junk. An expensive one at that.

It works, its metal, appears rugged. Provides power. But some of the functionality is not clear. It is used in a recording studio, with a USB powered ADC (Focusrite Scarlet) So when the computer turns off or the USB 3 is disconnected, the scarlet turns off. I wish it didnt do that cause it sends a hum out to the monitors. More importantly, I was using an isolator on that ADC and it appears that the Vantec blew it out. Its odd. The isolator had a 1 kV rating. I dont know if there was an overcurrent from the Vantec dropping power into the isolator. But the good news is that the metal case and grounding really works, so the isolator doesnt appear necessary any more.

I bought this for duplicating microSD cards in USB adapters for school classes. I had been using USB 2.0 gear before. With the right adapters and the freeware ImageUSB program, this is four times faster. (The right adapters are Transcend USB 3.0 SDHC / SDXC / microSDHC / SDXC Card Reader, TS-RDF5K, which write reliably in addition to reading. They're available from Amazon.) This hub is in a sturdy, all-metal case. There's no "wiggle" in the USB connectors. It doesn't get warm in use, although the adapters mentioned do. It comes with a 5 A power brick and all necessary cables. All ten ports can serve as powered data ports or charging ports, so it's also the right tool if you have a bunch of miscellaneous USB-connected gear. If I get a few bucks ahead, I may buy another and duplicate 20 cards at a time!

I got my first desktop PC in a long time, and instead of having to mess with the USB ports on the device, I thought it wouldn't it be nice to have the ports more readily available on my desk. While it did fulfill its primary use case, it was not as effective as I expected it to be. For example, I found that plugging my keyboard and mouse into it was a bad idea, because the desktop would not recognize my keyboard and mouse input when it was asleep. I was able to remedy this situation by plugging the keyboard and mouse directly into the desktop computer, but that kind of defeated the point of the purchase. While it is still useful for other devices such as my headphones and controller, I don't think that would have been enough for me to make the purchase in the first place. I would look at other vendors or devices for my purposes if I had to do it over again.

This 10 port USB 3.0 hub was purchased to replace another 10 port hub that lasted more than a decade. This replaced a 10 port hub that lasted more than a decade. It was truly plug and play. The photo shows it set up and functioning. An additional feature on this hub is that there is a blue LED to let you know its on as well as additional blue LEDs that let you see which plugs are connected and functioning properly. When a plug is not connected to a device there is no lighted blue LED. All in all, this hub is a worthy replacement.

I have been using 3 of them on 3 different computers predominantly to attach multiple external hard drives plus other USB devices. Photo scanners need to be directly plugged into the computer otherwise they won't communicate properly with the computer (doesn't matter the manufacture of the scanner). It has been roughly a year to a year and a half since I started using the HUBs and they have been working much better then expected. On one of my computers I had to get a USB-A (female) to USB-C (Male) adapter and no problems to report. The other usb hubs I have used in the past they didn’t remotely work as well as compared to the vantec. Other things I attach to the Hubs that work well with are: -SDXC/CF card readers/writer -Digital Cameras -USB memory sticks -Web cameras -Keyboard/mouse Yes I highly recommend this hub.

Vantec USB Hubs Industrial 3.0 With 10 Ports Are Very Good USB Hubs : I use two of them connected each to a different TB4 USB 4 port on my Mac Studio with 5 G RAID Dual Drives on each Hubs Wow ! Each RAID have two port : one TB2 and one USB 3 but my new computer with TB 4 USB 4 dont accept the adaptor TB 2 TO TB 3 on TB 4 Ports and no compatible adaptors TB 2 to TB 4 exist and TB 4 Hubs Have not enough Ports to connect all drives even in daisy chain mode but Single HDD or RAID Dual HDD will never overflow any usb 3.0 ports or usb 3.0 hubs so i make the transition and save 16 HDD or RAIDS.

Busy ripping my video collection of DVD & Bluray titles to my PLEX server. Have 1 BDROM in workstation & 3 external BDROM & 9 external DVDRW. The old USB2 hubs I had didn’t provide sufficient power to the drives, so I had to use 2 USB ports / external drive. Bought this & hooked up on a USB 3.1 port on my workstation & plugged in its power adapter. This device is working well, providing power to 10 external drives.

bon produit

Not impressed by the mounting ears, they are really thin and small. The holes for the screws are only slightly larger than the slots to slide on. It would be a lot better if the holes the mounting screws fit into were larger. It would be nice if a mounting template was included, along with a set of mounting screws and anchors. The included power supply is high quality, but it will not work bus-powered.

I’ve been using this hub for drives for chia, they all work and data works, I guess some people have problems. Love how it’s aluminum so if it gets hot it’s not catching fire... I am running external HDDs, started at position 1.. running 5 without issues, pretty happy, for sure on the expensive side!