Overall I am quite happy with the purchase. Upon initial use, it seemed it did what it's supposed to do.

I never got around to returning the hub, but I swapped out my 2016 MBP 13' for a 2017 MBP 13' Escape. Fast forward ten months, and I'm happy with the HooToo hub. I don't know if it's the change in MBP model or a software/firmware update of some sort from Apple--but I rarely have any troubles with this hub. I use it all day, every day, and it works great for power, data and display. The only minor issue I've noticed is that I get some slowness and/or lag when I have more than one USB peripheral plugged into the hub and working at the same time. I changed my setup a little from what I described below. Power comes from an Anker USB power brick with three regular USB ports and a USB-C port.

Akitio has announced the release of the its Thunder3 Quad Mini, a 2.5' four-bay Thunderbolt 3 external storage solution for the latest MacBook Pro.The aluminum storage device has removable trays designed to house up to four 2.5' SATA SSDs or hard drives purchased separately. The device is equipped with two Thunderbolt 3 ports—the first one connects to the MacBook Pro, and the second one can be used to connect or daisy chain Thunderbolt 3 or USB-C peripherals.With Software RAID, Akitio said four striped SSDs can reach data transfer speeds of up to 1375 MB/s, while four striped hard drives max out at around 400 MB/s. Thunderbolt 3 provides sufficient bandwidth to connect dual 4K displays to the latest MacBook Pro and complete other data transfers simultaneously.A dedicated DisplayPort 1.2 video output provides connectivity to the 4K displays at 60Hz, while the device supports Power Delivery up to 15W to notebooks that support charging from a 5V/3A power source.

Like the Unitek, the Iogear was fast and gave us the speeds we expected from each card. It had read and write speeds of 93 MB/s and 87 MB/s, respectively, during our SD card test, and read and write speeds of 93 MB/s and 73 MB/s during our microSD card test. In our CF card test, it had read and write speeds of 155 MB/s and 139 MB/s. It cannot read multiple cards at once, though. The Iogear is about an inch skinnier and a half inch longer than the Unitek, measuring in at 3 by 1.6 by 0.5 inches. Although it’s technically shorter and lighter than the Unitek, its rounded top makes it appear bulkier. It also has a shiny black body that attracts fingerprints, and a short, 4.3-inch connecting cable attached to its back.

I just received my ASUS USB 3.1 TYPE-A Card (controller chip on the card is an ASMedia ASM1142). It even works in OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 out of the box. It's recognized as a USB 3.0 hostadapter (2 PCIe lanes @ 5.0 GT/s). Jan 25, 2017  Re: USB-C CF Card Reader for new Macbook Pro 2016 - In reply to zevtambor • Jan 25, 2017 I am still using my Lexar Professional dual slot reader, the lead is detachable, i sourced a USB C lead to the USB socket on the card reader, I do not know the name but it.

While FireWire 400 was great because it was faster than both USB 1 and USB 2, USB 3 is so much faster than any common version of FireWire that it's worth chucking FireWire out the window, which is why Apple did that when USB 3 came out. The only consumer protocol faster than USB 3 is Thunderbolt, but nobody is going to make a Thunderbolt card reader. (My old Compact Flash card reader was FireWire 800; USB 3 is much faster than that too.) Why not stick with Lexar? Because it's expensive.

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HighPoint RocketU 1144D If you want an independent USB controller dedicated to each port for using multiple drives at the same time. • $105-$125 ( Approximate price as of 10/2/2018) • It has a dedicated controller for each port, meaning full speed for connected devices, even when used simultaneously. • It uses Asmedia ASM1042a chipset, which has native drivers included in 10.9 and later. • Slightly faster than the FL-based cards when using one device. Substantially faster when using multiple devices simultaneously. • One user reports zero bluetooth interference using this card.

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