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Review on ๐Ÿ”Œ Premium Aluminum Universal 8-Port Powered USB 3.0/USB C Hub with SD/TF Card Readers, 6 High-Speed USB 3.0 Data Ports, On/Off Power Switches, 5V/4A AC Adapter - Compatible with PC, Laptops, MacBook Pro/Air, Surface Pro, HP by Luckie Coonrod

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Robust design, weird problem

Once this hub is connected, two ghost drives appear in Disk Management and File Explorer even though nothing is connected to them and an Event 158 warning occurs "source Drive: Drive 4 has the same drive IDs as one or more drives attached to the system.". When plugged in, Device Manager shows: Drives MassStorageClass Generic USB Device MassStorageClass Generic USB Device Universal Serial Bus Controllers Generic SuperSpeed USB Hub Universal SuperSpeed USB Hub Universal USB Hub Universal USB Hub is registering both as a USB hub and as dual drives resulting in event errors as well as phantom drives in file explorer and disk manager seem to work fine, I don't care if my event viewer is filled with these error messages and sees ghost drives. Thinking it might be a defective unit I got a replacement but the 2nd did the same. While it looks good and feels solid, I think there is a design issue. Return and get another brand. Oh, one more thing. This hub also didn't work with 4 of my 6 inch USB 3 extenders. The extenders work perfectly without a hub. Either my extensions aren't compatible with this hub, or the hub doesn't support the length.

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