After adding the disk, he saw power consumption increase by 2W when the new disk wasn’t spinning. He thought about using one of those USB hubs with the adorable little rocker switches for each ...

Which is why [RETROCUTION] has developed a USB hub that’s not only extremely small ... of traces and pads on the PCB, there aren’t power lines for the downstream devices either.

Overall, Anker’s hub is well designed, with adequate spacing between the two 5Gbps USB-A ports. There’s also a 5Gbps USB-C connection for data, plus a second USB-C port for power input at up ...

so look for extra USB-C slots with charging power, which are more capable than USB-A. Other ports to look for in a hub include Ethernet for faster wired Internet access (without the flakiness of ...

USB ports have a power rating, with a standard default power output of 0.5 amperes. You might notice slow charging on USB ports due to low power output. Sometimes, our Windows computer might throw ...