USB Hub Deals & Offers

But what if you don’t have type C tech? You’d be without a hub. Desktops for example.

USB A is old tech. Anything worthwhile now is USB C

It hasnt got RGB lights blinking like rainbows.

Why outdated?

What would you suggest for something more up to date? Would getting a USB-C PCIe card and a USB-C hub be a be the best option atm? (much more expensive of course)

showing as £12.99 now as they've reduced the voucher promo to just £8 off

Use it everyday, no issues. Charges fine as well on my xs max :)

Bought one of these back in October for the same price. Works fine no issues, would recommend! (y)

So wait if I connect this to my shield tv I would have to turn it on every time I restart the shield?

Sweet deal!

That's what I meant ! (y)

Been using one for media for a few years. Great little drive. Getting full so need a suitable replacement.....

Expired unfortunately (annoyed)

Think about it you haven’t been tested positive for cOVID 19 (y)

:( missed it , not having a good day, never mind , could be worse .

Looks like it. There used to be a link that reduced the price, But it's gone now

has this expired? Or am I just being a fool?

Anyway!!!! Ordered yesterday. Surprisingly it came today. Nice bit of kit. Think I'll buy a couple of USB A to C adapters so I can plug it in wherever the funk I want........ :{ Now to wait for a final 7 port hub like last time and I should be set for all of my machines to be hubbed up.

This proves how stupid you really are (skeptical) Muted, for my sanity.

LOL okay how does this disabling the "+ve pin" (you mean the 5V supply pin presumably) work? Say it's disabled and I plug in a flash drive, which now has no power and no way to signal that it is connected, how does the hub know to power it up? In fact hardly any hubs actually support disabling the 5V supply to ports. The USB 2.0 compliance tests require it when testing devices but they dropped it for 3.0 because it was extremely difficult to find a hub that actually supported it, and even the USB IF couldn't supply them any more. And the disabling function is under the control of the host, i.e. it's power saving not protection. You could just educate yourself and then you would know all this. I'll help you, go here and read the documentation: https://www.usb.org/documents

I think you're right, described as being compatible with Mac OS etc but it's not a "Thunderbolt Dock" - edited accordingly.

i dont belive this is a thunderbolt dock. more like just a usb-c hub dock.

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I received today an email from amazon, "this item has been canceled", we apologize ... bla bla bla ... (annoyed)

Bought one to charge my ps4 headset but only works when PS4 is on.

1 quid on wish. Get a powered hub if buying at a higher price

??????

It was my mistake thinking it was a charger. (embarrassed)

Why would you still need an external charger?

I was interested in the 100W PD, but I think that is just a pass through ... You still need an external charger. (confused)

VAVA. I'm pretty sure they were my first words

Oh yeah. My bad.

Thanks will make a post as the seller has a good ratings. Cheerz.. ;)

Currently some at £119. If you don't want SMR the Backup Plus Hub has a "Compute" drive in it (£133). SMR are okay in RAID, depends on your usecase though.

thanks for that! I thought all mechanical HDDs were the same, learn something new every day!

Yes they work fine in Windows, I bought one just before Christmas. It seems to be a shingled drive so probably not the best for a raid setup from reading here https://www.storagereview.com/seagate_archive_hdd_review_8tb

Overpriced even at £130

Brilliant stuff to go under or side of android tv especially if your tv is wall mounted (y) Just use double sided tape to stick it on.

Also - Just noticed that all the Aukey reviews are fake. Amazon won't allow me to leave any review of the product (despite the fact I bought it on Amazon!):

Yeh. Aukey is absolute garbage. Anker is excellent. I have bought tons of Anker stuff and been very impressed. All the Aukey stuff I've bought has had poor design, rubbish build quality and doesn't do what it's meant to do. Also, I bought the Aukey alternative charger above and it's not fast charging anything. Looked in the manual and it says: 'Due to the power output is large, please connect the charging rate can reach 2.4A charging port for charging.' WTF???

I bought the one you said to get, and it's crap. Claims to be 2.4 Amp AI charging per port, but is only giving me slow charging (i.e. 1 amp) to my Samsung tablet and phone.

Yeah this is the biggest annoyance on this otherwise pretty skookum USB 3 hub. Why they didn't just bloody use a decent mechanical switch is beyond me, now wiring it up so that it's powered by the PC it's running on is a pain in the ass which will require opening it up and bypassing the switch!! That said I've had a little play around and a quick bodge / workaround for the power issue is to simply tape down the push-to-make switch with some black electrical tape, now whenever the hub is energised with 12v it powers up :-) Also people asking if you can charge with this HUB, yeah, as suspected the manufacture has unleashed the angry pixies (See pic below) Also 30W is more than enough for a 7 port HUB, most mechanical 2.5" HDD's are <5W so even if you populate it with a load of these high current USB devices the 30W PSU will cope no problem. I decided to chuck some more high current devices on and test the power delivery of this HUB, I added: 4xAA Charger Extra Tablet 2.5" Mechanical HDD The voltage & current barely budged and only dropped a tiny amount due to the extra load, overall this is a great little hub imho.

Unfortunately, the seller with the voucher is not the same as the seller we had with the voucher code so please keep that in mind! This is the reason I had to expire it. :/

Treforest, South Wales

Definitely USB3? Which Tesco?

Similar in Tesco on offer for £5

To be honest, I might not be the best case study because the accessories I've had plugged in have all had their own power supply - but I can say I've had two or three hard drives plugged in and running off this adapter 24/7 for the past few years on a linux box with no noticeable issues (and if you know anything about linux, you'll know that it quickly throws a massive wobbly if a hard drive it expects to be mounted un-mounts!). Anker stuff in general I've always found to be really good quality affordable kit, so if anything can crack an unpowered USB hub, I expect it's them :)

I've had problems with non-powered hubs in the past (ie ones without their own separate power supply), presumably this hasn't been an issue for you? Thanks for your help

Should be ideal then, as long as the devices you want to plug in don't draw lots of power.

For my MacBook Air

just what I needed. bought a ROG Strix with only 3 USBs and 1 C port. this will be perfect. I did read somewhere that extnernally powered hubs are the only way to go?

Not sure why, but ordered. Thanks

Good, I'm a bit skint after buying a Mac Pro! (embarrassed)

Usually like Aukey stuff, but avoid this one. I've had loads of issues with their USB-C hub devices randomly disconnecting attached devices. Amazon has plenty of people experiencing the same, so not isolated. I had my keyboard and mouse attached at one point to it, and it would constantly disconnect / connect cycle. Very frustrating when trying to type / use the mouse.

Wish code worked on that too

Guess that depends on if the person uses SD cards or would prefer a extra USB port

Personally, I think this one would be the better option https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B072826SV9/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_tV97Db6XSDZGV

Got one of these served me well over the years

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LEFL0X0/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_10?smid=ATFJ3NMMG4JGL&psc=1 This version although currently unavailable has enough power to run external 2.5" hard drives. I have three connected, a powered printer and some pen drives and it works fine. I'm sure it will come back in stock. Well made too.

Pretty much sums it up I think

The hub is splitting the power from the PC/TV across the 4 unpowered ports - This would be unlikely to power much but a basic mouse or pen drive. Its an odd design really - Its basically a 4 port unpowered hub and 3 port charger just stuck together but not connected. Just 4 powered ports would be more useful IMHO.

good price but for some reason portable harddrives don't seem to work in the USB 3 non-power ports; guess there is insufficient power. USB mouse/SD card readers work fine.

Macbooks, for example, have only two USB C ports so need 'normal' USB ports without losing one of their USB C ports.

It’s for charging the device it is connected to. Useful if the device only has 1 free USB-C port.

Sorry for a noob question. Is that PD port for charging the laptop that is connected to it or the PD port is to charge another laptop? Thanks...

this link works https://www.amazon.co.uk/UGREEN-Charger-Adapter-Charging-Simultaneously/dp/B07F62QD26/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=UGREEN+36W+Dual+Car+Phone+Charger&qid=1574857384&smid=AXZ3JQ1GVFPIF&sr=8-5

It does not...

Any idea if it supports PD pass through?

Note: Please use Standard 5V Adapter (not Included, sold separately) for powering. So, OK for shared devices which don't need power like printers, but perhaps not so much use for portable hard drives and the like. Not clear what the power output rating is. Almost thought it could connect a device to two hosts simultaneously, but sadly it's an either/or.

Yeah non powered and usb3 it was bad enough with usb2 ones. (skeptical)

Completely agree

Work very well

Pleased with the 10 port powered Sabrent hub I am using and this is a great price. They seem to think unpowered is ok at this size, raises a concern in me though and would investigate if planning on buying. The switches are a gimmick for most though and cause me issues when I accidentally switch ports off