Powered USB hub for professional use

SlinkyMike

SlinkyMike

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I need a powered USB hub for professional use.

Takealot doohickeys will not cut it for this purpose (powering external drives, audio interfaces and synthesisers).

Found this on Amazon which looks perfect but I'm not convinced the same thing can't be bought locally:


I have searched because surely there are techies using things like this for animation/video editing, etc. but I've not come up with anything close to this built quality and capabilities though. Any ideas?
 
End of the day, the USB port it connects to is a bottle neck.

I use a J5 4 port powered USB hub, and it does the required. It does not back feed power either.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
End of the day, the USB port it connects to is a bottle neck.

I use a J5 4 port powered USB hub, and it does the required. It does not back feed power either.
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Thunderbolt then? 4 is 40Gbps.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Lets say, the majority of devices don't. And most that have USB C do not fully support the standard.
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Remember, you first said:

End of the day, the USB port it connects to is a bottle neck.

If the user has a low end or old PC so that he does not have TB4 speeds then he's probably content with 5Gbps speeds of USB 3.0. Such a person won't be bothered by the bottleneck.
 
SlinkyMike said:
I need a powered USB hub for professional use.

Takealot doohickeys will not cut it for this purpose (powering external drives, audio interfaces and synthesisers).

Found this on Amazon which looks perfect but I'm not convinced the same thing can't be bought locally:


I have searched because surely there are techies using things like this for animation/video editing, etc. but I've not come up with anything close to this built quality and capabilities though. Any ideas?
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Don't know how many ports you need, but this is suitable for power hungry devices, It's crazy expensive now though, they used to sell for just over R300 a few years ago.

Transcend USB3.0 - 4 Port Powered Hub
 
Mirai said:
Remember, you first said:

End of the day, the USB port it connects to is a bottle neck.

If the user has a low end or old PC so that he does not have TB4 speeds then he's probably content with 5Gbps speeds of USB 3.0. Such a person won't be bothered by the bottleneck.
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Most don't use their USB ports for large data transfers often enough to be bothered by it. So yeah, probably.
 
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