I have plenty of large external drives (5 TB). At first glance, this hub seems to be what we call "the real thing." Good and sturdy construction, mechanical feel switches, very good and strong power supply. As a point of comparison, I use the "Atolla 7-Ports Powered USB 3.0 Hub," which I have given a (mediocre) review, and the "Icy Box USB 3.0 Hub," which I also have; it is very good but without separate switches. The hub seems to handle the simultaneous connection of multiple drives (so far, I have used 3 drives of 5 TB each at the same time) and successfully cuts off the power. Its negatives are the very weak and tiny LED lights in dark blue color that you struggle to see if they are on.

I have been using it since February, I think, of 2022. Now, as I write this, it is August 2024.

I don't know if it's bad luck or what, but I can't find a USB Hub that lasts more than a year, a year and a bit at most. At least one of the ports always fails us. We're talking about buying USB hubs for over 20 years.

This particular DeLock USB 3.0 hub with 7 ports is the first one that hasn't had any issues after the first year. We're already at 2.5 years, and it still works perfectly. For my case, as I said, it's incredible.

I hope it continues to work because I can't afford to buy a new one, but I admit if I need to and can, I will buy from the same company.

Now, for its use, it has powered 7 ports 3.0, with a maximum of about 500+ MB/s when used for transferring to an SSD. For a hard drive, I reach 130-180MB/s depending on the drive and the files I'm transferring.

I always have a charging cable for my phone, a microphone, a desk fan, a keyboard, a 2.5" hard drive, a 3.5" hard drive, and a webcam connected to it. Everything works perfectly even at the same time, without issues.

Each port has a button that activates it if you want it to work or not. Each one has a blue light so you don't have to guess if it's on or off. The appearance is good for me with a mainly silver color, which is slightly close to blue. The two ends are black. I think it's all metallic, but I don't know what material. It is, however, very lightweight.

For me, a flawless product.

Very good and sturdy construction (metal casing) with a "powerful" power supply (12V, 3A) capable of powering devices that require a lot of power (e.g. USB 3.0 scanner powered via USB), and individual on/off switches for each port. You can easily connect 7 devices and they all work simultaneously without any issues. Just be careful if you are using 7 devices at the same time, make sure the USB sticks do not have a "thick" casing (thickness) as it may cause a problem with the adjacent port. The cable is 1m long. I gave it 4 stars because the price is a bit high.