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Used for: 3–6 months
Small enough for the laptop bag, quick enough for the desk
Warm to the touch after an hour of heavy use
Does the job of a dock without being one, which suits somebody who works from three different places most weeks. It goes in the bag with the laptop and there is nothing else to carry
Used for: Less than a month
Card reader is as quick as a dedicated one
No Ethernet, which at this price is a strange omission
Pulls a full card of raw files across faster than my old reader managed, which was the whole point!
Used for: 3–6 months
One port does video, data and charging without arguing
Only two USB-A ports, which fills up fast
The reason to spend this much rather than half is bandwidth you can actually use at the same time. Screen at full whack, a fast SSD copying, and the laptop charging, all without the mouse going jerky the way it did on my old hub. Two USB-A is stingy though, and a small four-port hub now hangs off it.
Used for: Less than a month
Bought it for one 8K screen and it did it first time, no drivers, no fiddling
Used for: More than a year
USB4 speeds that actually show up in a file copy
Still the fastest thing on my desk two years on, and the external NVMe enclosure hanging off it reads quicker than the laptop's own drive ever did
Used for: 3–6 months
Drives a big screen and charges a hungry laptop together
The port labels are moulded into black plastic and invisible
Sits under a monitor arm and handles everything a working day throws at it: one large display, an audio interface, a drive and the laptop on charge, all at once, no drop-outs and no fan noise because there is no fan. Whoever decided to emboss the port names in the same black as the shell has clearly never plugged anything in behind a monitor. I have put a strip of tape underneath with them written on in biro.
Used for: Less than a month
One cable to the laptop replaced five on the desk
The desk had turned into a knot: charger, screen lead, two drives and a dongle for the network. All of that is now one USB-C cable that goes in when I sit down and comes out when I leave. What sold me over the cheaper hubs was that the screen keeps running at full rate while a drive is copying. On the last one, any file transfer made the pointer skip. A week in and I have not managed to make this one stumble yet, and I have tried, because I did not quite believe it!
Used for: Less than a month
Handles a huge display and a fast drive at once
Runs warm and the shell shows every fingerprint
Came from a cheap seven-in-one that could do video or storage but never both properly, and the difference is immediate. An 8K panel on the front room telly and a Thunderbolt drive on the back, both flat out, and nothing stutters. Two small gripes. The aluminium shell gets noticeably warm, not alarming but warm enough that I keep it clear of the laptop rather than tucked under it, and it marks with fingerprints the moment you touch it. Neither would stop me buying it again.
Used for: 3–6 months
Genuinely quick, and no software to keep up to date
The fixed lead is stiff and pulls the hub off the desk
No complaints at all about how it performs. Four months in, running a screen and two drives daily, and it has not once needed unplugging to come back to life. The cable is the weak part: short, thick and springy, so left to itself the hub lifts off the desk and dangles from the laptop. A blob of putty underneath has fixed what the design should have.