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 ...

If there are more peripherals than there are ports on the switch, a USB hub can be connected to one of the switch ports. Sometimes, USB "switch" is used to refer to a USB hub, which does act like ...

Although we’ve seen switchable USB hubs before, they usually require you to either press a manual switch or run dedicated software on your PC. We’ve also seen other sleek builds combining a ...

Both hubs are bus powered so there’s no need for a power supply. The Plugable USBC-HUB4A has a USB Type C connection for more modern laptops while the USB3-HUB4A has a USB Type A connector.

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 ...

The Yanko HubKey 10-in-1 USB-C Hub lets you connect all your peripherals to your laptop and even easily control it with the included knob and buttons.