Amazon page for Anker® Uspeed USB 3.0 7-Port Hub says:- Not compatible with SuperDrive and WD passport hard disk.What about Plugable's 3.0 hub?
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I have a mypassport drive that i've had for years now - and it does work with the plugable .... I would try contacting western digital support (if they're not horrible) to be sure --- unless you want to try buying the plugable to see if it works for you
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I have Seagate 3TB external HD USB 3 and it works with this ok it just takes awhile on reboot or start up for Windows 7 to pick it up.
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I don't know about. WD Passport but I have 3 WD My Books that are working very well with Plugable.
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I have three WD Passport 2TB drives working flawlessly with this hub. The drives were purchased from various sources and at different times over the last year.
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I don't know about SuperDrive but I have two WD passports (500 each) plus My Bookconnected through 3.0 7-Port Hub without any smallest trouble.
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Don't know for sure. I assume it is a clerical error on Amazon's part - associated wrong box image with the wrong product.If you look up the item number on LaCie's site, it says it is a USB 3.0 model.
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Either of the 2 ports will recognize USB 3.0 - however, they are limited to only run at 2.0 speeds. So while compatible, they are not optimized.
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I have an older Seagate External HD (1.5TB) and a few 3TB Western Digital HD. I have them hooked to my Window 7 desktop through the Anker USB 3.0 hub; so far I have no issues. When not accessing data on my external HD, the disks do spin down gracefully and go to "sleep"...so far I have not had any issues with this device...hope this helps...
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My similar drive (5TB) is also equipped for USB 3, but it works great on my 2.0 ports. I assume it could transfer faster on 3.0, but there's no incompatibility.
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The Plugable is a very good USB hub, and it has worked impeccably in many connection configurations. However, in your specific case, I would suggest to contact WD.
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I know this is really late in response but I found that the 7 port hub would not work with usb 3 on my computer. I don't know if this is something to do with my computer's usb 3 chip set or if the hub is just bad. My computer is an HP Pavilion dv6. I had purchased 3 of the 7 port versions and all of them had the same result. They worked fine as a USB 2.0 hub but I really need the USB 3.0 version. Since they worked just fine with USB 2.0 I am thinking this is a chipset issue or firmware issue.
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I have two Seagate slim External HD drive, one Seagate G0flex Satellite (Wireless) HD drive, one DVD External drive and Buffalo Accelerated Speeds USB 3.0 Card plug into the Anker USpeed USB 3.0 7 port Hub. All these devise work well with the hub. Also, I plug my i phone 5 into the 2.1A USB output port to charge my i phone 5. Anker has several model make sure you order the Anker USB 3.0 7-Port Hub with 2 Ports for charging (for cell phone or other wireless devices).
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Hi! It is shown with proud on outer box "Super Fast USB 3.0. Exactly what I needed for my modern i5 laptop (it's name Toshiba too). Actually Toshiba quite trustful company make good devices. Maybe this defective one in a million? I will try to recover my priceless pictures and HD videos from my trips from Europe. And hundreds and hundreds of songs and my pictures. My co worker computer guy tried to help me, but could not do anything - it does NOT work...
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The Apple Superdrive needs more power than the USB spec specifies. USB ports on Apple laptops 'coincidentally' supply higher-than-spec power. Without the higher power (e.g. USB hubs (even powered ones), Windows computers, etc.) This is a stupid business practice to lock their drives to their laptops, nothing more. But since this drive is Mac and Windows compatible, there's nothing to worry about, USB spec power will be enough.
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USB 3.0 and let me add I love this drive. Very durable, fast speeds, etc. I am on my second one, and customer service was very nice, but still.. Stinks to have a drive fail
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MANUFACTURER ANSWER:Thanks for posting your question here! No, Plugable USB 2.0 2-Port High Speed Ultra Compact Hub/Splitter (480 Mbit/s, USB 2.0 Windows, Linux, OS X, Chrome OS) is a bus powered hub and is not expected to work for your intended setup. We have had other customers who got this product after reading http://blog.jdslabs.com/?p=838 and were disappointed when it did not work.Hope the above information helps! If you need any additional information, please do feel free to shoot us an email at support@plugable.com. We are here to help!Thanks!Regards, Roze Plugable Technologies MANUFACTURER ANSWER:Thanks for posting your question here! No, Plugable USB 2.0 2-Port High Speed Ultra Compact Hub/Splitter (480 Mbit/s, USB 2.0 Windows, Linux, OS X, Chrome OS) is a bus powered hub and is not expected to work for your intended setup. We have had other customers who got this product after reading http://blog.jdslabs.com/?p=838 and were disappointed when it did not work.Hope the above information helps! If you need any additional information, please do feel free to shoot us an email at... » Read More MANUFACTURER ANSWER:Thanks for posting your question here! No, Plugable USB 2.0 2-Port High Speed Ultra Compact Hub/Splitter (480 Mbit/s, USB 2.0 Windows, Linux, OS X, Chrome OS) is a bus powered hub and is not expected to work for your intended setup. We have had other customers who got this product after reading http://blog.jdslabs.com/?p=838 and were disappointed when it did not work.Hope the above information helps! If you need any additional information, please do feel free to shoot us an email at support@plugable.com. We are here to help!Thanks!Regards, Roze Plugable Technologies « Show Less
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Mac Pros tend to have problems with USB 3 devices. Suggest a good USB 3 expansion card like SIIG and an extension cord. Hubs seem to have lots of problems. Also repartition the drive as GUID and use HFS+ formatting.
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I can't speak from a HW/SW designer's perspective; however, from the OHS (Open Hardware Summit) definition this issue is due to the expanding number of USB devices than the available 64K unique IDs available. I don't think the hub itself is going to "fix" this issue. Its function is merely "replicate" USB requests from one side to the other side so it will "pass through" all the IDs unchanged. That said, eventually if your laptop is connected it will see the same ID untranslated so it would be the same issue with or without the USB hub. That said, however, I would think a SW update should be able to "patch" this issue. I still think there's value in getting this USB hub as it has the number of ports as well as charging capabilities but you can just check this out using another hub to see. Good luck.
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I didn't have luck with it at all. Then I got a Unitek 3+1 port USB3.0 Hub, also off Amazon...super cheap powered hub and works great, no problems
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As this is made for the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex it has a cable with USB connections and an adapter to SATA. The Western Digital Passport has Mini USB, but the model called My Passports looks like it has the same flat USB 3.0 socket, so in that case you just need this. CITIE Obliq USB 3.0 Cable/Cord For WD Western Digital My Passport Essential WDCA042RNN Super Speed 5Gbps A / Micro B Device, 6FT (2M) GOLD PLATED Connector
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MANUFACTURER RESPONSE: Thanks for asking! We have not done any testing of our USB 3.0 hubs on the current generation of Airport Extreme routers as they are still only equipped with USB 2.0. At this time we cannot recommend this hub for use with the Airport.