The USB2 hub is about 17 cm long, 3.5 cm wide and about 2.3 cm high, it is higher in the back than the front. The cable is about 54 cm long, which is divided by about 34.5 cm in two ports.
This USB2 hub comes nonpowered why host powered hard drives can be connected only conditionally, ie with a hard drive and otherwise only USB sticks went there with me. However, the total energy requirement is observed. For connecting to the computer two USB ports are required.
The stroke looks stylish and is thanks to rubberized bottom quite well on the desk. I use Win7 Home and Win7 Prof .. After first plugging directly carried out the driver installation on Windows. This worked without any problems.
It was possible between the USB stick to copy / move data. Since this however is a USB2 hub, the achievable throughput is limited in several devices. Better would be a USB3.0 Hub, which can produce more power.
It was very nice to have USB sticks can easily put next to each other, without being too tight. You can benefit from all the ports at once.
Something impractical, I find that you can not log off the entire stroke at once in Windows. Say, it has to be stopped one each device. Even if you want to remove a particular drive, it can, as long as you do not see this on the basis of the name, are complicated.
Conclusion:
All in all works of the 8-Port Hub easily. However, he needed for two USB ports on the computer. Those who work more with host powered hard drives, require a hub with its own power supply.