Do what he will, with me but not with USB sticks
4-Port USB 2.0 Ultra Mini Hub black - 4 high-speed ports for Notebook / Laptop / Netbook + PC / MAC | Plug & Play | without power supply (electronics) 4
A great and inexpensive way to increase the number of available USB ports, and the USB cable of individual devices is not always switched on or having to unplug as needed. Tried it with me with an external hard drive, camera cable, mobile cable, mouse and keyboard, all the Mini Hub works fine. A reported by some users as slow, especially the hard disk is not occurred to me, currently I still camera and mobile phone cable and said ext. HDD off. What are, however, not work for me USB sticks: I can do what I want (and I've tried a lot), they are not recognized as an external disk when connecting via this hub. If I connect directly to the computer, then already. There's a star deduction, but otherwise the hub for this price is great. And by using this stroke, I've also always a port for USB sticks freely :-)