Anker PowerExpand 8-in-1 USB-C 10gbps Data Hub - Review & Test
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- A look at the Anker PowerExpand 8-in-1 USB-C 3.1 Gen2 hub. I'm using this on a MacBook Pro M1 but this hub will work happily with any Mac or Windows PC.
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I reviewed an Anker powered dock a few months back but I realised soon after starting to use the dock that I also need something more portable. I like the form and function of the Anker products so I decided to look at this one.
UPDATE: Following a few comments, I have also now done some testing with the hub connected to power to see if I could bring the speed closer to 10gbps. • Anker 8-in-1 Data Hub ...
Ports:
USB-A 3.1 Gen2 10gbps x 2
USB-C 3.1 Gen2 10gbps x 1
USB-C Power Delivery x 1
HDMI 4K 60Hz (max) x 1
Gigabit Ethernet x 1
SD Card Reader x 1
Micro-SD / TF Card Reader x 1
00:00 - Why You Need A Hub
01:14 - Power Delivery
01:38 - Look Around the Hub
02:20 - Why I Prefer Fly-Leads
04:00 - Speed Tests
07:56 - Final Thoughts
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@@shawnz9833 ,
Same Q esp. when using the PD.
I really never thought about that with the smaller hubs you make a lot of sense
Nice one, Thank you!! Was looking at this or the Caldigit Soho...
Awesome review, Thanks a lot! Looking for something for MBP Air with M1. This is what I need.
Just ordered one from your link! Should work with my M2 iPad Pro! 👌🏼
Just bought the same one for my new M2 mba set up. I liked the one that plugs on direct but I had exactly the same risk thinking as you.
great video, thank you!
I’ve got one of these, like it very much well built.
I agree. I would have liked to have seen a metal finish on this but it's certainly good enough. It isn't as powerful as the dock but it does everything I need it to do when mobile.
So I was just about to correct that the usb A and usb C ports in the hub are 3.2 Gen 2 as stated in the ad artworks on Anker’s website. 1:58
But read the specs and it the hardware interface section stated:
Hardware Interface
USB 3.1 Type A, Ethernet, USB 3.0 Type C, HDMI
not sure which is correct though? It would be wonderful if you could point me in the right direction.
Dear Sir,
Thanks for the great guidance .
Sir,I have 3 Questions :
1. Can the same USB hub which is used for Windows /Mac book be used also for Android tablet and mobile ?
2. Can I connect Samsung Galaxy,which has 45 Watts Charger, with 100 Watts USB Hub or only Tabs/mobiles which has similar Watts for smooth function ?
3. Do I need to give extra charge to USB hubs when connected to TAB/MOBILE (like built in battery or power through acharger),because Mobile/Tabs have less power than Laptop, to give charge to the USB Hub ,when it connects to mobile /tablet ?
Is the hub able to handle the power if all of the ports are used? ? I am planning to buy one and use at least 4 ports which consists of external mouse, keyboards and 2 monitors. TIA.
If you have a usb drive or portable SSD connected to the hub dose it disconnect when pulling power?
This may be a dumb question (I'm not techy). I purchased this for my new M1 iMac. I've plugged in the hub to my computer but I only see my external harddrive that I have plugged into it. I'm trying to take things of my SD card but it's not showing up on my computer. Does it have to be plugged in via HDMI? Confused! Please help!
imported USB 8 in 1 from canada to india but port C PD not charging M1 Air showing pop (Battery not Charging). Please suggest anything i can do
Hello, I would like to purchase this for my gaming laptop. It has no hdmi input. Will it run 1080p 60fps without any latency?
Did you test the transfer rate while powering up the hub with the charging cable, it might give the extra power to transfer faster maybe?
ua-cam.com/video/c3kmEo77sYI/v-deo.html - As requested!
Is this unit compatible for use with a smart phone as well as charging a smart phone. I do my GoPro editing on my phone quite often and it would be nice if I can pull video files off my SD cards and charge my phone with a power bank at the same time while out motovloging
Does anybody know if the sd card reader and micro sd card reader work simultaneously?
Hello sr, i have the same in my office, but i accidentally unplugged the power to it, and now won't connect my 2 monitors to my laptop, is there any way to reset this thing ?
What is brand/model # of the hub you were using for comparison? Thank you, very nice review.
I was comparing to my dock - geni.us/anker13in1 - It’s not an apples apples comparison but I wanted to know what I lost by using my nice portable hub rather than an expensive dock.
I plugged in my 2nd monitor to usb c hub, and no signal, i have updated display adaptor driver on my personal windows 10 laptop, so not sure what's up ,however everything works on my work laptop windows 10. so monitor good, hub good, there. what could it be... thanks. same hub like yours 8 in 1 dual hdmi hub anker.
just wondering: sometimes when you connect the power to the hub, the speed and reliability of the connected devices can improve (as opposed to when the power is supplied via the computer connexion) ... it then becomes like a powered dock. It would be worth trying to see if there is any effect.
ua-cam.com/video/c3kmEo77sYI/v-deo.html - As requested :-)
@@tdcattech I was looking at it ... thank you so much!
Does it works with s21 ultra?
Same for me, this hub does not give 10 gbps, only 5 gbps in my tests. ¿Is there any one that gives you 10 gbps? I'm trying all shop catalogue and none of then provides 10 gbps
Hi - thanks for the review. Do you know if this dock can support power and connectivity for two laptops simultaneously? Thx
Not quite sure how that would work in practice but no, just one laptop.
Is this better than SATECHI USB-C Hub Multiport Adapter V2?
Can i connect 2 monitor with this one ? I mean 1 from hdmi and 1 from usb-c ?
Hi, thanks a lot for your review. I’m genuinely considering to buy this port. It feels like best case scenario for USB-C hub. Could you test the USB-A and USB-C data transfer port using the same 10gbps external ssd pls? They have the same theoretical speed so they should perform the same, but I doubt it. If I can only get around 250mb/s through USB-A port, I would rather to have some cheaper alternatives.
I'll check this and get back to you.
Isn't USB-A capped to a certain speed?
@@tdcattech anything come of it ?
Can I use this iPad Pro 2021?
Can this used in iPad Pro
Hi. Thanks for your review. Do you test anker hub to connect two external harddisk at the same time? i have 4gb and 2gb external hdd
Works perfectly fine, tested that
can this be used for IPADs?
thx :)
This is not charge my ipad mini 6 why
Nice review bro, do u have any heating issue in this usb c hubs?
Not at all. They get warm but nothing more.
@@tdcattech ,
Is that measure when using PD? Is there a great thermal delta from using PD vs without?
Thank you for sharing this. I am a music creator doing mostly sample intensive work. (I have a MacBook Pro M1 Max with Thunderbolt 4 Ports and I am using a Mag Safe Charger, and running all Samsung T7 Portable SSD). Through a dock or hub I want to connect 2 or 3 x SSD and run a single HDMI to my 1080p monitor through the same. What do you recommend? Should I go for a dock or a hub to get optimum speed? Thank you! :)
I think optimum speed would be plugging each SSD into a separate Thunderbolt port on your computer. Using a hub which is let's say 10gbps, will share that bandwidth among all connected SSDs. So in that case, a Thunderbolt Hub will have more bandwidth to share between all connected SSDs.
Now I suspect that full 10gbps speeds on each SSD for audio work might just be overkill. I mean, even internal sata SSDs (speed up to 5gbps) have never been too slow for audio in my experience, but I never did full orchestral arrangements with samples.
So I guess this USB hub would work just fine, but for maximum performance, something like a thunderbolt dock should be better
Thank you for the review. Can you confirm if it supports 1440p(2k) @ 120hz with HDR? Also if it can do variable refresh rate (vrr).
were you able to find out?
@@JustinhoPaolo i wasn't. All i found out was that VRR is only supported on DP and HDMI
@@notreally2257 I grabbed one and can confirm it works up to 144hz on my M1 MacBook Pro. I’m using hdmi 2.1 btw.
@@JustinhoPaolo how's the ethernet?
@@enricoianniello5611 sorry the variant I got has the aux IN instead.
Nice review! could you test it with MacBook Air M1? I read that 30 watt adaptor is not enough sometimes for power delivery?
Sorry, I don't have one to test with unfortunately.
@@tdcattech For me it did not work on Macbook Air M1. No Ethernet
@@fransheemskerk is it working now? i got an m1 ..
Does the dock gets warm? I have an anker hub /dongle it gets warm. Considering the dock for piece of mind.
Yes. All hubs and docks that I have ever used get warm. The Anker 13-in-1 dock gets hot but this hub just gets a bit warm. You can't expect to shift data at this speed without generating some heat.
in this video i see you more than the hub.. i dont even say about the hub in action how perform with more devices connected to !
Due to 8/10 encoding, 5 Gbps is closer to 500 MB/s rather than 625 MB/s.
Maybe you should try give it the 100w PD that might change the game. I do not have this but I do have a baseus 8-1 hub and it did change the transfer rate speed after I plug a 100w PD adaptor.
It's a very good point. I really need a dock to perform without additional power but maybe this does need additional power to operate at 10gbps mode. I might test that in a future vid.
ua-cam.com/video/c3kmEo77sYI/v-deo.html - Did some more testing on the Anker dock.
Are there any usb c hubs like this that only provide power to the connected devices, as opposed to supplying power to the laptop as well?
You don't have to plug power into the hub. It will work fine and power accessories using just the battery from the laptop. However, I'm guessing you know that and are asking if it's possible to use external power to feed the hub and connected devices but not charge the laptop all the time. In which case, no. I have not found one.
@@tdcattech yeah that’s exactly it. I have some old “powered” USB A hubs with power cables so that any connected devices won’t have to draw from the laptops battery power, but I haven’t found anything similar with USB C :(
It’s not charging My ipad pro M2 😔
What power supply do you use with your hub and what computer do you connect the hub to?
The hub is powered from USB-C. The power input on the hub is just a laptop power passthrough. It doesn't impact hub performance AFAIK.
Great video and thank you for the prompt response. I just bought a MacBook Pro with the M3 Pro chip. I bought the Anker hub but my power supply that came with the MacBook is only 70W. What power supply do you use with your hub?
Does the hubs require power and get it from laptop?
Power is from the USB port on the laptop.
Why is no one testing the power consumption of these devices. They don't even give specification about the efficiency of the power conversion/passthrough.
What do you mean? They do. 100W input and 85W output.
Hello…I bought this anchor 8 one hub for my M1 iPad Pro…but I can’t charge my iPad through the PD port of this hub….tried another brand hub same result I got…do u got any idea about it….if yes pls let me know
the hub takes 15W of power flat from the charger you plug in the PD input, even when nothing else is plugged in. So you need a USB-C charger that's 15W + your device charger power (so I'd say 35W at least for a 20W ipad charger; 45W for a MBA and so on)
@@valdir7426 thank you so much for the valuable information....after ur reply I have had a chat with apple online technical support team regarding a charger which can provide 35 w charge ...but they have only 30 watts charger...and they said iPad Pro can take maximum upto 30 watts power(not more)...so I asked for a 45 watts charger( 15 watts for hub+ 30 watts for iPad) but they don't have one they suggested 30 watts charger...will it be ok?
@@sudhanandananandan3747 ok glad it was helpful; you can theorically use any usb-c charger with about more than 35W; apple or not. I can't tell you for sure 30W will be enough; it might charge but slower; or not charge at all (if you can try it that's great) If I were you I'd go with something more powerful (45W or more) to be sure; you don't have to buy an apple charger so it can be cheaper; there are GaN technology charger that are super light and powerful (like on amazon for example). or the 67W charger from apple for macbook pro. good luck with all of this.
@@valdir7426 ohh..tats great…really really helpful..thank you so much sir…it was confusing me a lot..and I have got a solution from u..thank u again
Why is the cable so short, I want to have all my cables in my cable tidy under the desk, this is to short which leads ot loads of cables on the desk looking ugly, if it was 10-20cm longer it be perfect
A short cable makes it handy for carrying in a bag. If you're after a neat fixed installtion, a dock is better than a hub. Performance is usually better too. Price is the downside, of course.
Can anyone comment on the Ethernet speed? Looking to find the USB-C hub or dock that offers *the fastest* LAN connection
This has a 1gbps port that performs at 1gbps (or as close as you will get with overhead). This is demonstrated in the video.
@@tdcattech thanks, somehow I missed that
Is this compatible with m1 ipad
I can’t test it but I would imagine so. Hubs and docks on iPads is definitely a thing! 👍🏻
Hi guys. Can i use this with a desktop PC or will it only work with a laptop?
I guess you could, though usually the level of connectivity on a PC desktop is sufficient so you don’t really need something like this.
@@tdcattech Thanks for the reply. I would like a hub that sits on my desk that has both card readers and the other USB ports. Just for convenience so I don't have to stuff around on the rear of the motherboard
You’d lose some performance this way compared to the USB ports on a PC that are probably multiple ports but also multiple hubs. It would be fine for quick connection of devices though. Avoid USB LAN though. I don’t like them too much. Stick to the port on the PC (if you’re using Ethernet at all)
@@tdcattech Yeah its mainly for the card readers but the extra USB ports are handy as well
Does this work on a windows PC or is it just meant for Macs?
No. It works fine on a PC. 👍🏻
@@tdcattech thank you kindly for responding.
Anker gets 'advertised' on youtube but reading the Amazon user experiences these hubs are not that good.
Seems inexpensive to buy a good hub for 60 eu but that only applies if the hub is really good.
The influencers have done a good job in promoting them. Probably a good affiliate program...
The only negative side of this hub is the cable is non removable... If the cable gets broken then it will not be replaceable.. I wish it was detachable..
I know what you mean but an additional port for the cable to attach is also a point of weakness. This works OK for me personally but sometimes it would be nice to be able to use a slightly longer cable or maybe a more flexible braided variety. 👍🏻
Hi! Just want to correct some things. 1st it's not a hub it's a usb dongle. 2nd, It'll run on 10 GBPS when the power line is connected through the dongle. And the video for the 4k runs at 60Hz.
Anker call it a hub though feel free to call it a dongle if you wish. It won't run at 10gbps on the setup I used when filming either with or without power (Apple M1 2020). Yes, it's 4K 60Hz. If I said differently in the video, that was an error as the description says otherwise. 👍🏻
Hdmi... Used to watch Netflix and UA-cam
I realized the USB type c is technically wonderful, but physically a weak link, but u sound like a mac user 2 me.... recently bought a used mac w/only Thunder3-C ports. Having a cable connecting to your computer allows 1) Strain relief 2) a replaceable port. Built-ins are the weakest links.... Think of it as a 'meta-port'....
This is a sh*t, my monitor screen is always shaking
This dude rambles...alot! Damn shame I just couldn't watch till the end
Yeah, not for everyone. Sorry you got bored.
Can someone please help ... my ipad pro shows not charging when i use apple 18 w charger anyone else?
Hub uses 15w so only 3w passes through