I bought a more expensive model that had an active fan to cool my Mac Mini but the fan stopped working. If you own a Mac Mini you know how warm they can be and really needs an active cooling mechanism to keep it cool. I did not want to pay over $100 for a replacement so opted for this unit. It provides a passive cooling by convection and works perfectly. Consequently the cost is much less that the active units. It does have the same number of ports including an SD card reader. I can't be more pleased and I don't have to worry about the fan not working. It fits my Mac Mini with an Intel Chip perfectly. Read more
Great expansion hub for the Mac Mini. This seems to be an upgrade from previous versions. It is much more stable than ones I used before that would alway cause failed-to-eject error messages if you bumped a cable. The only problem I have with this one is that the USB ports are upside down, preventing me from using it for my Yubico key. Otherwise, an excellent hub. Read more
Upon connecting to my 2023 Mac mini I was getting that disconnect error. Me being the engineer that I am I wanted to fix the issue. The first thing I did was the obvious, change out the usb-c cable for a higher quality cable and bam! It works flawlessly. To the manufacturer, find another vendor for your cables. Read more
I have been using Mac products since 1984 and my first Macintosh, which I still have packed away somewhere. Their computers are more expensive but they just work, in an easy to understand, reliable way. The only downside I have found in all the many Macs I have owned is the number of ports or lack of them. That's where the RayCue Mac Mini Hub comes in with all its extra ports and well placed card reader I now have enough ports to plug in my accessories SD cards etc. It will also hold a 2TB SSD which I use to store all my work. Well made and a great price. Read more
Simple to install on my M1 Mac Mini, added a 1TB Crucial SSD and was up and running in 6 minutes. Attractive to see under the Mini, looks and works just as expected. Extra USB ports handy and easy to access. Very happy. Read more
There were too many disconnections from the computer using the stock USB cable that was provided by manufacturer, the connectors started to work fine after I replaced stock cable with high quality thunderbolt cable from OWC. The harddrive connection however gets still disrupted even with the new cable few times a day, I would never use this for keeping a system hard drive there, only a data drive with occasional use. The speed of access to HDD is fluctuating, sometimes it reaches advertised numbers but other times it gets very slow, down to around 10 Mbit/s at most, it looks like they used the cheapest possible components and put something together just to sell it in large quantities - see my screenshot pictures. Not a high quality product that I would expect from a Mac accessory, I would say it should cost $20-25 at most. Buy it for extra hub connectors and cooling but don't expect a miracle from the HDD performance, replace the stock cable that they send you in a box with a high quality cable the 1st thing and throw that stock cable away. Read more
Very light weight and small in size, which is good. I use it mainly with my wireless mouse, and sometimes it suddenly stops working. I have to wiggle it to make it work again. At first I could connect the Mac cable to charge the Mac, but it no longer works, not sure why. Read more
This hub was easy to setup and provided the layout of additional ports I've been looking for. The attachment cord is provided and the drive slot is easy to access. Very simple, no-nonsense hub. No issue setting it up and it serves my purposes just fine. Read more
