Can I connect 7 USB Portable Hard Disks using this hub? Does it work?
1891703
It does. I am having trouble when I fully load it. My external Blu-ray drive drops out
1891704
My USB3 hard drive works perfectly. I don't see any reason why all 7 drives would not work perfectly.
1891705
Should wrk. I only have two drives connected but they work just fine. I also use a external DVD player/recorder and printer. all have no problem working. Good luck.
1891706
I am currently driving three WD My Book hard discs from the hub (2 Tb, 1Tb, 0.5 Tb), plus a printer and a scanner with no problems.
1065025
I've been trying this with no success. A single drive through a 7-port usb hub worked fine. However, upon connecting three drives, one TB drive became corrupted and had to be reformatted! The other two TB drives were connected and able to be shared. Upon both hookups my wired connection continued to lose and regain internet; followed by not being able to access the router admin from firefox. At this point I'm ready to just connect a single tb drive and give up on multiple drives. If I have any later success I'll post again. Good luck.
1554090
It does not work with a Seagate 1.5TB thick portable drive, keeps disconnecting when read/write to it. When connecting a small drive like WD 1TB, 80% of the time will be fine, but it disconnects as well. No matter what power adapter you use! I even tried to use a powered USB hub. It can read and recognize external drives connecting to a USB hub, but it will disconnect from time to time with no apparent reason.
1581256
No - this hub is backwards compatible with 2.0 and 1.0, but it can only pass data as fast as the slowest USB component. In your case, the 2.0 port on your Win7 tower is the limiting factor.
1781102
You sure can. Connect a cable from your wall connection to the hub then, connect each of your computers to the hub. It will work just fine.
481058
didn't try, but worked with 2 usb drives no-powered, means that the hub give enough power, so it should work fine. doesn't charge the ipad, but nothing charges it except direct usb connection.
344548
While this may work, it is not recommended or supported. We take data protection very seriously and USB hubs can add reliability issues. What you can do is employ multiple Sync devices as our software will "virtualize" the many physical devices and give you a single folder view of your files whether you have one or hundreds of Transporters.
1375149
Yes, it will work and work well with just one USB connection. It has two to "supposedly" provide extra power during "heavy" use in lieu of the extra power brick included with some models. I have used it both ways and have had no issues with it. It is a great little box and I intend to buy at least 3 more of them. I am currently using the one to try out various distros of Linux since I ditched my large tower case I have used in the past. I am now running triple boot Linux on the one I am using now and have had no problems at all.
1628942
It isn't a NAS box; no Ethernet, no file services that I am aware of. It's as esata or USB housing for four drives. Mine is USB connected to a synology NAS box and exposes each of the four drives inside as a separate device to the synology nas head which then makes those available on the network via smb, nfs, etc. am pretty sure this box will work when USB connected to OS X. I have used other devices with the same innards as this one with OS X successfully. This box may also concatenate drives (make four 2 tb drives look like 1 8 tab drive) but I wouldn't recommend using that feature; lose one of the four drives and all your data is lost.
657781
Per the product description "This 4-Port USB 3.0 Hub will not charge an iPad (it will only sync)." That makes sense. If you want your device to charge or you want to run multiple external hard drives off of a USB hub, you are actually looking for a different product. A powered USB hub is what you are looking for.
749984
Sorry, I did not try to connect a USB hub. This did not work in my MB so I had to buy another attachment.
650930
I'm not sure about the amp numbers, but I'm using the hub with 2 USB3 portable drives, 1 USB2 Ethernet, USB keyboard/mouse, and USB/serial port, sometime plus more peripherals at the same time, without any problem.
2097573
Don't quite know what you are asking. We have a 7-port usb hub and though we use it for only 3 devices + 1 once in awhile, it works like a charm. Since there are 7 slots, it will take 7 devices.
259147
i have the power plugged in with 7 drives. I think the reason my drives didnt work is because there's not enough power on the bus for drives. I know you can run one drive without a problem, but don't know about 2. I would assume you want power just so you don't loose the drive in the middle of writing as happened to me before without this hub.
1815470
It doesn't support daisy chaining but some more expensive drives do. So use usb hub.
1555907
I have 4 3tb enclosure plus 7 external drives .they work.i would think yurs should as well
1867068
Yes, I have a 320gb usb external hard drive operating off of this hub and it works fine for me.