Bus-powered USB hubs draw constant power, draining and degrading your laptop battery. Running high-power drives, phones, or monitors through unpowered hubs risks overload, heat, and damage. Use ...

There comes a time in everyone's life when they look over their desk for a place to plug in their phone, a new wireless mouse, a portable hard drive, or some other peripheral, only to discover they're ...

The Sabrent HB-3A4C 7-Port powered USB hub is a versatile solution designed to streamline your device connectivity and enhance your overall computing experience. With its combination of USB-A and ...

The Plugable UDCA1A USB-C hub is ideal for creating a home office workstation that just needs a USB C laptop. More of us have been working from home with a variety of office setups so we can work as ...

Hi,<BR>When I plug a self-powered Zip drive or SmardMedia card reader into the USB ports on my monitor or my keyboard, I get a "low power notice" that tells me I need to plug those items into the back ...

[Befi] wanted to add a second stage backup disk to his ODROID embedded-board server, which typically draws ~1.5W at idle. After adding the disk, he saw power consumption increase by 2W when the new ...

The Anker is a great choice for connecting an external display. You may find some limitation with other devices, though. The Anker hub has built in pass-through power over USB-C, HDMI support up to ...

USB hubs are often hard to tell apart from one another: the Moshi iLynx 3 I reviewed here in February was the rare hub that actually matched the silver metal and black plastic look of the Macs it was ...

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Hiksemi’s HS USB S450 Type-C stick is one of the closest in spirit to SanDisk's drive. Its 10.6 x 20 x 13.5mm shell adds up ...

In our recent review of Western Digital’s My Passport Studio ( ) portable hard drive, we spent quite a bit of time discussing the drive’s cables and power requirements. In our tests, conducted with ...