Transcend HUB2
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Price: £23.35
Brand: Transcend
Description: Ideal for use with today's Ultrabooks and thin-and-light laptops Transcend's Super Speed USB 3.0 Hub transforms a single USB 3.0 port into four instantly expanding the number of high-performance USB 3.0 devices you can connect to your computer at the same time. As it is USB bus powered with the cable attached no extra power adapter is needed. Plus the ultra slim and portable design allows you to transfer files wherever you go.- Super Speed USB 3.0 interface (backwards compatible with USB 2.0). - Up to 10x faster than USB 2.0. - USB bus powered no extra power adapter needed. - USB cable attached. - Ultra slim and portable design. Transcend HUB2 - shop the best deal online on appliances4.me
Category: Computer Components
Merchant: Quzo
Product ID: 140304
Delivery time: Next Day
Delivery cost: 0
MPN: TS-HUB2K
EAN: 0760557831709
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Author: Michael O'Neill
Rating: 5
Review: This little gem does exactly what I was looking for i.e. allowing me to plug in multiple external drives (3) which require power. It works perfectly with all my drives recognising them immediately. I haven't tested for transfer speed, but that's not an issue for me: I usually transfer large volumes of data and just leave the computer to get on with it. Can't really comment on the fast charger port as this is of no interest to me. As with some other reviewers I received the unit with EU power supply. I went online to arrange for a replacement and received new UK version the next morning, Kudos to Amazon for this speedy service which I have had occasion to use in the past. For me it's five stars because it does exactly what I wanted.
Author: MR SIMON J STICKLING
Rating: 3
Review: The Raspberry Pi requires a maximum of around 750 mA to be supplied via a micro USB port. (There is a 'polyfuse' of 750 mA). The Raspberry Pi also has USB2 port for data communications. The power that can be supplied by the Raspberry via its USB2 ports is limited. Insufficient to power USB drives and, probably, WiFi adapters. Hence the need for a powered USB hub. I had planned to supply power via the TS-HUB3K "dedicated fast charging port" and use the other 3 ports for communications. This will not work and Transcend have offered no solution. The problem is that the Raspberry Pi boots when power is supplied, however shortly later the Raspberry activates it's USB2 ports and thus the hub's 'upstream' port. The hub reacts by momentarily interrupting the power supply. This causes the Raspberry Pi to reboot and the sequence loops. The power supply LED on the Raspberry flashes (about once a second). However, there is a way around this problem. But this means that power cannot be supplied via the 'dedicated fast charging port'. The solution is to power the Raspberry via one of the other hub's ports - NOT the 'dedicated fast charging port' The USB3 standard says that a USB3 port can supply up to 900 mA (USB2 is 500 mA). If (this has not be confirmed) the Transcend port does this then this should be sufficient to supply the 750 mA needed. It might be the hub sees an 'upstream' port of USB2 not 3 and therefore limits to 500 ma. In practice I have successfully run a Raspberry in this way with an external USB disk and WiFi adapter. Also to get more power from the 'dedicated fast charging port' requires special drivers that are only available on Windows or OS/x i.e. not the the Raspberry Pi Atom. Finally it may need care on what devices are supported via the 'dedicated fast charging port' - they would need to tolerate a power interruption early in the boot process. WiFi OK?, hard disk used soon after boot? In summary, I would say that I am happy with the port for use with a Raspberry Pi but that there are some limitations that had to be investigated at some considerable investment in time.
