AnkerPowered USB Hub for Laptop, 7 Ports USB 3.0 Data Hub, With 36W Power Adapter and BC 1.2 Charging Port for iPhone 7/6s Plus, iPad Air 2, Galaxy S Series, Note Series, Mac, PC, USB Flash Drives

This is a very impressive little device! - The piece is very well built and obviously using high quality USB ports and other first rate materials. This USB hub also provides some nice unique touches you won't find on other brands like a numbered port display spanning 1-7 with blue LEDs sitting under each character that backlight each port's number when an active device is plugged into that position.Everything is housed in a solid, glossy white, hard plastic chassis comprising the smallest footprint of any active/charge capable 7 port USB hub I have ever seen. Much smaller than I was expecting from the product photo. The device is powered by an external AC supply (wall wart) that attaches to the hub via your typical two pole female connector. The power connector itself is located on the top end of the chassis next to the USB input/output cable that connects the hub to your computer.And Yes... as some of the whinier more anal reviewers have made abundantly clear to everyone, the AC adapter is one of the large ones and if you happen to own one of those odd power strips with the AC plugs aligned parallel to the row of female AC receptacles, then yes, this adapter is going to cover up several of the empty AC receptacles below where you plug this power supply in.My suggestion to those who consider this to be a deal busting design flaw... How about buying a better power strip? One that is designed to work with a collection of AC power supplies? They even make some strips that have swiveling receptacles to allow you to configure your power strip to suit what you are plugging into it! Amazing what technology can do eh? Problem solved and disaster averted! For whatever reason, Anker has chosen to use that specific AC power supply, so I assume there must be a very good reason for its addition to the package.So far I have been very pleased with the performance of the hub and have even done some hard drive backups through it using one of my Touro S Mini USB 3.0 hard drives just to see how the hub handled read and write to and from a 3.0 spec.hard drive. It performed just as fast as the dedicated USB 3.0 ports on my Macbook Pro do, so no complaints there.All in all, I am very pleased with this sleek little USB hub and have been very pleased to confirm that we are most definitely getting the quality and performance we are paying for here. If you are looking for a sleek, small and well built USB 3.0 hub with some nice added display features, I think you have just found what you have been looking for! And as others have said, Anker appears to be an up and coming small component manufacturing company who is specializing in first class quality devices for just a little more $$ than your typical Chinese stuff everyone else is offering these days.

This is my current USB hub that I really enjoy. It of course uses an external power supply for powering bigger devices. Being I have so many peripherals I really need this. And it has several ports just for power which is handy

Purchased to connect my iPhone/iPad to a power hungry DAC via lightning to USB 3 camera adapter or USB C digital AV multiport adapter for lossless audio. Works faultlessly. Very compact and presents well. I can also charge a few devices with the remaining ports.

Still "plugging" along with no issues. Though I now am looking for a similar USB-C hub to work with my Macbook, this was being used with my iMac desktop, and now a Mac Studio. I have 8 devices plugged into it at the moment: 3 in the charge/data ports (charging devices), and 5 in the USB ports. I've added USB-to USB-C plug adapters for the times when I need a C cable plugged in, and everything works as it should. I've had zero issues with it 6+ years and counting. Always appreciate a "Name" brand over the monkey-typing-on-a-keyboard-brands with low prices and lower reliability. Wish Amz still featured high quality brands over the junk that litters the search now - but hey, that's a different issue.

OK,This MIGHT NOT be a fair review, since I purchased this device 8 years ago to assist my docked laptop workspace at my job. I am a 20+ year veteran sysadmin for a Public School in Upstate NY, and I utilize allot of USB flashdrives. As of this week. I noted the device began to get HOT to the touch. Since then, this hub only consistently recognizes devices attached to ports 1-3. Unfortunately ports 4-7 have become hit-or-miss. All 7 ports continue to deliver power.I have tested the AC Power adapter with a multimeter, and it is still working fine. I have swapped the USB 3.0 cable for 2 known-good cables and re-tested the hub against multiple desktops/laptop computers, and found the problem follows the device.Context: This hub is normally connected directly to a free USB 3.0 port on my laptop. And it is my nature to be very careful with all my devices to ensure I get a good return on my investment. This hub has been resting comfortably on a flat piece of aluminum (for heat dissipation) on my desk. And at the end of each work day, I turn off the switch on the surge suppressor which supplies power to all the devices at my workspace.That said:A powered USB hub of this size not a terribly complex piece of equipment. And I would expect that it would last practically forever, if cared for. Is it possible I accidentally killed it from a static discharge, or potentially one of my peers tried to plug a USB-C device into it without looking, and killed it? Sure. This is possible.I guess I have to say, that for the 8 years this device has served me well. I am disappointed that it suddenly it started acting strange. I need a new one, but I am hesitant to purchase this same device considering the premium price I paid for it initially, and the fact that it eventually failed.Is this a fair review? I don't know. But it is an accurate description of my experience.THAT SAID: I do want to leave some positive feedback:While this hub was healthy, it was fast and reliable. And I have to say, I very much like that Anker decided to incorporate a USB 3.0 uplink port on this hub, rather than incorporating a "hard wired" USB 3.0 up-link cable. This enables you to utilize a shorter (or longer) uplink cable if your workspace requires it, and in the event the cable gets damaged, you can easily replace it and keep going. That design choice is a welcome one, and it actually helped simplify my troubleshoot, when it started to fail. So when I go shopping for a replacement for this device, I will make sure to purchase another hub with a removable/replicable uplink cable. I consider it a MUST-HAVE feature, and my kudos to Anker for designing this hub with that option.

I've been nursing along an old laptop as my media server. As you can see in the photo, I have a wi-fi antenna, a solid state USB drive, and two USB spindle drives connected to the Anker. Those spindle drives require sufficient power to function properly (or even at all).It's working just fine. I'm about to get a new, cheap laptop to replace this one, and it may only have one USB port. This was a test, and Anker passed, once again.