InateckUSB 3.2 Gen 2 Speed, USB C to USB Hub with 4 USB A Ports, HB2025

Ok - the promise here is that we have four USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, that support up to 10Gb/s (that's around 1000MB/s).The ports share the overall 1GB/s speed available from the source port, so you can't have four devices all going at full speed, which is understandable and fair enough.There is no other description or differentiation about the ports - we are supposed to have four, completely equal USB 3.2 Gen2 ports, and there is nothing in the marketing, webpage, box or manual that suggests the ports are in any way different. It just says, 4 x USB 3.2 Gen2 ports.I bought two of these for two different machines, to connect an SSD and some other USB devices to two Macs. I had tremendous trouble at first with a new SSD that could barely read or write, taking hours to transmit fairly small files and frequently failing the transfers - I thought the SSD was broken, so I started to investigate more.It turns out the ports on this hub are not equal at all.On my first hub, the port nearest the cable mounts my SSD, but barely passes data at all. I can get a 0.4MB/s transfer, but transfers often fail. (This was, unfortunately, by random chance the port I had initially connected my new SSD to.) On the second hub, this port won't even mount the SSD at all. Clearly this port is far from a working USB 3.2 Gen 2 port.The second USB port down seems to give decent speed on both my units - typically 5-700MB/s on my SSD tests (Blackmagic Speed Test). This Samsung T7 SSD I'm using supports up to 1000MB/s, and connected directly to my Mac via USB-C/TB gives around 700-800MB/s as a benchmark. So port 2 seems to work as expected on both units.Port 3 on unit 1 also seems to work fine and similarly as port 2. The same port on the second unit seems to read fine at ~650MB/S, but only writes at ~35MB/s. So write traffic seems hugely impaired, for some reason.Port 4, the one on the end, on unit 1, seems to perform as port 3 on the other device - reads at around 650MB/s, but only writes at 10-20MB/s. On unit 2, this port works as expected, at around 700MB/s in both directions.So, it seems that on both units I received, we have two ports that seem genuine USB 3.2 Gen 2, one port that has terrible speed in one direction, and one port that is borderline useless. And even more confusingly, the problematic ports are not the same ports on both devices.So, when buying these, don't expect to blindly plugin your fast devices into any of the ports and expect good speed. *Test* which ports work fast, and connect your SSD or fast devices to one of those. And expect at least one port to be barely functional (they might be fine with undemanding USB2 devices, possibly, I haven't tested that at time of writing).So yes, a bit annoying that the fact that all four ports are not the same is not mentioned anywhere, unless I happened to get two defective devices in one order. With this knowledge, I can rearrange how I connect my devices and probably get by, but I'm writing this up here to spare the reader some of the hassles I had with getting these to work reliably.I hope that helps someone...

Connects up to four USB-A 3.1 Gen 1 (5Gbps) devices to a single USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 (10Gbps) host port. Most hubs of similar configuration and price use Gen 1 for the type-C port, so this model is able to offer double the bandwidth. If your host device only has a type-C Gen 1 port, this hub will still work at that lower speed.My only complaint is the short cable - I would have preferred a model with a 70cm cable.

very very very light weight it looks and feel good lets hope it last, The speed is true unlike many other items sold on here I do like inateck I have bought 4 hdd inclosures from them in the past and all good have lasted too. I took a chance on this I'm glade I did the only thing I did not like is that you don't have any markings saying which is the 3.1 usbs and 2.0 usbs there is one port that will not work with 3.1 usb connected to it just disconnects

I have the same issue as some of the other low star reviews. Will not reliably connect directly to my MacBook Air M1. Trying to attach external SSD storage. Sometimes the drives will be detected and then disconnect after 30 seconds with an error message. Sometimes doesn't detect the drives at all. Appears to work better with external mic and webcam etc but I bought this for the 10gbps speeds for external storage. Unfortunately I will be returning this and the hunt for a decent hub continues....

This works well. The cable is not too long but certainly enough for me. It requires no extra power and it easily runs a couple of SSD drives. I have not tried 3. Very Pleased with it.