eoocvt 5.25 inch Multi-Function USB 3.0 Hub CF TF M2 SD MS Card Reader CD-ROM Front Panel Media Dashboard SATA eSATA Audio Headphone Mic Computer Peripherals

I have the 525E model.Out of so many PC cases in the market, there is none that fit all my requirements ( budget, hinged transparent side panel, four USB ports at the front with some USB 3.0 and 10 Gps Type-C ports, at least a couple 5.25 external drive bays for DVD drive and mobile docks for old HDD and 2.5" SATA3 SSD). Currently pre-built PCs are mostly small form factor type, kind of inconvenient to service or upgrade, or gamer type. Majority PC cases now are for gamers with 70-95% of the PC case's front and top surface area dedicated to case fans. I am not a gamer, just a couple case fan slots will be enough. For these reasons, I decided to use my old PC case for my new 11th generation Intel CPU and PCIe 4.0 ATX motherboard build.Since I put the PC on the floor under the table, it is highly inconvenient to crawl underneath the table to insert USB devices at the rear panel while the PC case has just a couple USB 2.0 ports at the front.This Eoocvt 5.25 inch Multi Function Media Dashboard (525E) is good for my purpose. I did not know that just one USB 2.0 header and a USB 3.0 header on the motherboard will allow 8 new USB ports at the front with the card reader functions included. In the future, I hope the manufacturer will come up with something that can provide a Thunderbolt 4 (40 Gbps} or USB 4 port at the front, because I still have a Thunderbolt 4 header unused at the motherboard. The ASUS Thunderbolt 4 dock will provide output ports at the PC's rear panel only.One other big plus is the Molex power connector and the SATA port at the front will allow me using a 2.5" SATA3 SSD externally by a female Molex to female SATA power connector and the data cable . This saved the requirement of another SSD mobile dock, as I switch Linux distros from SSD to SSD frequently.Just for the value of the cables included with this Dashboard is well worth the price.One strange thing is there is always a drive G: appears under "This PC" of Windows 10. When the PC has no USB devices connected, this drive G: will still appear (dimmed, and cannot be accessed). If I insert a SD card to the card reader this drive G: will be active, and the icon becomes bright, I can access the contents of the SD card then. Once the SD card is removed the drive G: icon remains but dimmed out. It took me a little to getting use to it.Now, I just consider this drive G: is reserved for this Dashboard. No big deal!I love this product!(EDITED: June 28, 2021)I do not understand why some people here expect some PCIe device? What PCIe device? The descriptions here say you do not need PCIe device as long as your motherboard is PCIe motherboard. That simple.Some people have prejudice on Chinese products, thinking it may be sub-quality . This might be true two to three decades ago. I think that was the transition period for a nation's technology advancement. This happened to Japanese products in the 60s and 70s, Taiwanese and South Korean products in the 80s of last century.On the contrary, China product is a synonym of decent, working and good value product to me. I know what price that I paid for, so I won't expect top quality materials and top features and top performance. However, the Asus PCIe 4.0 motherboard that I used for my new PC build with 11th generation Intel CPU is just another case of the only product in the market from China that fits all my requirements .About this Dashboard, it is true that the audio cable may be little too short for some people. To verify this, I tried to use this audio cable for my ATX PC case. Since I installed this Dashboard to the top external drive bay (out of four available) and the audio header is at the diagonal corner, the cable is actually an inch too short. Should I move the Dashboard to a lower bay this problem would have gone. I just did not bother to do it, because I have been using the ATX tower front panel audio cable. Why moving it around.? For those who have the short audio cable problem, they can get an audio header extension cable (but that may cost a few bucks, of course).By the way, my current ATX PC case for the newly built PC is a fifteen year old Enermax Pandora 815, also from China. There was no such thing called USB Type-C port when I bought it.

Plenty of ports! Card readers USB2 and USB3, SATA, eSATA, power port, analog audio.Works well, only downside is the plastic casing and the 2 screws that tap into the plastic don't really allow you to clamp down. Thus when plugging and unplugging tendency that the casing slightly moves/slides or becomes loose.Needed to rig something to prevent it from sliding in when plugging in.Other than that, device works well!

Replaced the optical drive on my media server with this. This will be a bit more useful since optical media is going the way of the dinosaur. This thing is completely plastic but doesn’t seam poor quality. All the ports on mine work. This adds front panel audio which this 2U server didn’t previously have. Also didn’t have front panel USB 3.0 so those additions are nice. I now have eight front panel USB 2.0 which seams excessive but whatever. The cables on this are a decent length. They are about 1.5ft. For me they actually posed a cable management issue. A 2U server chassis is already tight quarters. I got it figured out though. Not sure when I’ll ever use the front panel SATA or ESATA but I connected them to the motherboard anyway just in case. Will see how this holds up. This only has one usb 2.0 header and looks to be recognized as a hub so all six 2.0 ports share the bandwidth of one 2.0 port.

No screws came with the device. This has been a trend with my latest purchases of similar products, maybe bad luck but I did not see that it came with any and that is bad business.Power connector was of the poorest quality, wires pushed out of the back while being plugged in to the 4 pin power source, had to straighten them and hold the wires from the back to get them seated.The time it took for me to locate 4 screws and fix the power port earned the one star rating. The cord length on the audio connector forced me to uninstall the device and move it to the lowest drive bay, an option that some might not have in a simple modern case.The side holes for screws are threaded for standard drive mounting screws but are plastic so care had to be taken to screw the screws I found in my desk into the device, they will strip immediately under the slightest twist above tight. While this may seem petty, a device that you will be plugging things into can force the entire unit into your drive bay, not a lot of thought went into this part of the product.As for the ports and functionality, I do not know how well it will do, I may revisit this later but my rating will not change. No screws, cheap parts, short wires, plastic screw holes, 1 star.As a side note, as mentioned, I have ordered and returned three other similar products for not having this part or another, for me this is a new experience with chinese goods. Consider returning these products to get the message back to China to improve their already awful quality control. In this case, I am tired of sending things back and waiting for the replacement over screws.The price of this item is pretty fair if it works, it DOES NOT have the USB-C (USB-3.1) It does not claim to either but this latest USB non-standard is on most motherboards being produced today under various names but with the exact same port. A usb 3.1 port all by itself will set you back another 15 or more dollars and there are competing products with this very extremely fast port on their bezels for a few more dollars.If the screws were included and the power port were not so cheaply constructed I would have tested the item and given it a five star rating so long as it functioned. I was also asked irrelevant questions about the product that were associated with the review, like how shear, thick and warm it was.

I have never been able to get all of the ports to work. The USB ports on the front right side have never worked. The left side work fine. Verified not missing any connections. Wish I could give it 5 stars but since it doesn't all work, I can't. The ports that work do fine.