Connectivity wise, this hub is ideal for my needs. Has enough ports to drive all my essentials and these is no impact on the r/w speeds of my external drives (when compared with them being linked directly with the laptop’s thunderbolt port.The packaging of the hub is nice and neat and the build quality of the enclosure is excellent. The ports are stiff and the devices are securely connected, not afraid that something will be disconnected if I move it around on the desk.The operation is simple and was plug and play (already had the latest thunderbolt driver from intel installed, latest drivers from the OEM and up to date Windows 10). I received an error message stating that the Thunderbolt device I’m using is not certified for PC use. Caldigit was not aware of this error so I went ahead an uninstalled the official intel driver and installed the one from Caldigit. The interface changed and that message is no longer displaying, probably a good sign. All my devices were recognised and running with the official intel driver as well as with the one from Caldigit, so far so good. One thing to note- if you eject your element hub from the removable devices, you’ll not be able to mount it again. The only way to fix it is by disconnecting the hub from its power supply and reconnect it and it will mount again, together with all devices that were plugged into it. This might not be ideal for some and does not behave like a traditional hub that you could re-mount or just unplug the thunderbolt cable and plug it in again, without having to power cycle all the devices that are linked to it (this is a powered hub, will not work with the tb4 cable alone).Something else that might be good to know is that the motherboard is moving inside the enclosure. I’ve noticed that there is a whining noise that comes out of the hub and changes in pitch whenever wiggling any of the cables that are connected to it. If you’re sensitive to coil whine noise, this is not a dead silent device.I’ll continue to use it and share my experience with you, should anything change.Hope that you’ve found this helpful.

Niet meer dan 3 sterren. Het apparaat is zeer degelijk gebouwd en biedt voldoende connectiviteit maar geeft problemen met midicontrollers. Ik heb 3 controllers aangesloten op de USB 10 Gb/s poorten maar 2 geven problemen.

This hub has become an invaluable part of my desk setup and simplified my (cable-centric) life tremendously. Just the right amount of ports, power, and convenience. Using it with a Macbook pro with all imaginable accessories. Highly recommended and well worth its price.

I've tried to use this as a hub for a couple of external hard disks. Nothing fancy. I've used it on several Macs (Mac Pro 2019, PowerMac Pro 2022, etc). Different systems (Catalina, Big Sur, etc). Different formating and labels of the the external hard disks. No avail. As soon as the computers goes into sleep mode. The external disks disappears from the desk top. Never to return. No matter what you do.

No lo compréis. Se desconecta de golpe de forma aleatoria, y la única respuesta del servicio técnico de Caldigit es manifestar que se trata de un problema del sistema operativo de Apple porque usa sus drivers. No especificaron cuál era el problema y se limitaron a señalar que debía de hacer limpieza general. Cuando les manifesté educadamente que su respuesta no era aceptable ni en absoluto satisfactoria, dieron la callada por respuesta.Todo en flagrante contradicción con las características comerciales del Element Hub en las que se afirma sin rubor alguno que el aparato es compatible con Mac OS (en mi caso, MONTERREY y superior).Lo menos que uno puede esperar de un puerto de casi 300 euros es que sea fiable.Lo compre a finales del pasado mes de noviembre, y gracias a Amazon he podido devolverlo.Obviamente, los aparatos distan de ser infalibles y perfectos. Pero un buen servicio técnico tiene que ofrecerte una solución, sea una reparación o un reemplazo.Ni una cosa ni la otra en mi caso.Aseguraros en vuestras compras la garantía de Amazon. Es un salvavidas.

J’ai acheté ce hub pour étendre les ports USB et Thunderbolt4 de mon Mac mini M2 Pro afin de me constituer un set up pour faire de la musiqueCe Hub permet de connecter 4 périphériques USB en plus des 2 du Mac mini (Clavier de contrôle midi, pédalier midi, contrôleur à vent Midi EWI, NuRad …) le tout est auto alimenté par le hub (donc pas besoin d’alimenter ces périphériques qui consomment peu)Très pratique pour une configuration pour le studio et pour la scène très fiable.L’alimentation du hub est imposante pas facile à intégrer dans un rack vu sa taille mais ce hub est d’une très grande fiabilité. Les ports Thunderbolt4 permettent l’ajout de SSD rapides pour augmenter la capacité de stockage du Mac mini souvent hors de prix avec des performances presque identiques à celle du disque interne du Mac MiniJe recommande ce produit à tous les musiciens qui ont besoin de ports supplémentaires pour le stockage les monitors vidéo et des périphériques USBSuper achat

Parfait, efficace

Fa quanto previsto, e bene.Peccato manchi una porta audio (non nelle specifiche)