USB 3 0 Hub - Tendak USB Hub with 4 USB 3 0 Data Ports 1 USB Smart

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I did not have high expectations for a product with such a low price. I needed a "powered" hub and really did not have the money to spend. This far exceeded my expectations! Sure it looks nice... very nice actually. My system is all blue LED, and this blends perfectly. I used double-sided tape to attach it to the top of my tower. Other than the wires, you'd think it was an original part of the system. But I care much less about the looks than the performance. This hub performs better than I expected! I have not run throughput benchmarks, but I have imaged quite a few drives on it. I am getting about 1 Gbps writes on the drives reading image files from a slow WD Green 6TB storage disk. That far more than I expected. I have 4 or 5 USB 3 flash drives that constantly gave me trouble, not appearing, or disappearing. With this hub, they work perfectly every time! I'm SO happy with this Tendak. Read more

Just received this item and after plugging in the unit to my pc and then plugging into the hub my 3 external usb hard drives that are powered by the hub they come up just great and are working fine. Just make sure that you are using the power supply that came with the hub to give the hub enough power to run the external hard drives. Great product that I just reordered another one for my other computer and they throwing away the ones I have that don't work. I have just had issues with one of the two I purchased. Three of the ports have gone dead and I have tried on several computers without any luck. But just received an email from the company that they are going to send me another and talk about great customer service they have it. Read more

Set up was simple. I plugged the supplied power cord into a wall socket, the USB cord into my laptop, then plugged my accessories into the hub and it was done. I bought the Tendak USB hub mainly to switch back and forth between powered speakers and headphones, but I have also plugged in an older HP LazerJet printer and a Logitech wireless mouse dongle. The hub works as advertised for my simple needs. Construction is all plastic of course which makes for a very light weight product that tips over if all input cords are on one side, but easily solved by placing one usb cord on left then one on the right. The switches are nice and feel like pretty good quality with lights that clearly indicate which port is in use day or night. With the power supply plugged in you get a reasonably fast charge from the dedicated charging port. The Tendak hub was a little more expensive than some of the other hubs I looked at and that will hopefully be justified with long term, trouble free use. I get the impression Tendak has some concern their product lives up to expectations. The hub comes with a power adapter, a card that offers an additional 6 month warranty if you register and an offer of free new product releases. Four stars until proven durability. 22/03/19 Additionally the hub caused some frequent wifi connection issues. This problem corrected itself after I disconnected and reconnected the hub several times and windows 7 finally loaded the required drivers. Read more

I just got a laptop for the first time and I wanted to add some storage potential. This hub gives me four USB 3.0 slots to use. I've filled them all up and I can turn them all on, or off, or on one at a time, using the buttons on the hub. They all work perfectly...at least so far. No one can predict the future though...so far, so good. It wasn't pricey either. It is a powered hub to keep from drawing power from my laptop, but it will work without plugging it in to power too. What more can I say? I like the way it looks. The ports light up with a blue led light when they are "turned on" by their individual button(s). If you're looking for a hub, this one does what it says. Read more

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The following hubs are electronically identical, so I shared the same review between all of them: Atolla 4-Port USB 3.0 Hub with 4 Data Ports, 1 Smart Charging Port, Individual On/Off Switches and 5V/3A Adapter Atolla Powered USB Hub, Aluminum 5-Port USB 3.0 Hub with 4 USB 3.0 Data Ports and 1 USB Smart Charging Port, USB Splitter with 5V/3A Power Adapter and Individual Switches Tendak USB 3.0 Hub with 4 USB 3.0 Data Ports + 1 USB Smart Charging Port and Power Supply Adapter with Individual On/Off Port Switches for MacBook, Mac Pro, HDD All three hubs use the bargain-basement Genesys Logic chipset GL3510, which is known to have issues with audio devices and random disconnects - see the photo. In the case of the Tendak hub, it is particularly painful because they’ve changed from the Japanese Renesas D720210 chipset (formerly NEC) in their early models, to the current GL3510. I wouldn’t be surprised if the bulk of their positive feedback is attributed to that early model. This is also likely the main reason why all of these “vendors” steadfastly refuse to disclose the complete specs on their products. The other likely consequence of using the GL3510 (and its integrated voltage regulator) is that the external power is restricted to 5V – which is suboptimal for USB 3 hubs with 4 or more ports. One nice feature of these hubs is that the ports’ on-off state is electronically controlled (not mechanically) and that sets them somewhat apart from, say, Sabrent and similar junk. The on-off state is persisted even if the hub is unplugged. Additionally, unlike the other two, the Atolla’s aluminum-cased model, has a proper shielding at the cable entry and two small rubber pads on the bottom to keep it from sliding all over. It also happens to bundle an ever so slightly nicer AC/DC adapter - it’s got more certifications. Neither of the power adapters has its efficiency level printed on the label. That concludes the list of positives. Everything else - hobby quality PCB, the lack of power regulators to the ports, absence of any thermal management, the piano black plastic, etc - is simply subpar. If you still decide to stay within a $20 budget, the Atolla’s aluminum-cased model is the better of the three (by a hair). Read more