The installation works without problems on both devices with the latest drivers from the Internet. All infected devices are detected perfectly and quickly - so far everything well dissolved.
Fall on both computers at least me differently strong delays in screen layout, which is probably due to the connection via USB3. Has hanging The more devices to the docking station or the more the computer to do general, the stronger the. This is actually logical since the bandwidth of a USB port is now times limited because I can not observe similar behavior but on a Toshiba Universal Dock solution to such an extent I think it is primarily a problem of drivers iTec device.
Under Windows 8 major problems happen - when the universal dock is plugged in and used the system has marked "hanger", in between individual seconds in which the computer does not respond. In addition, numerous programs have a strong inclination crash that run perfectly stable without connected docking station, in particular programs with network traffic are here concerned - possibly turn a driver error on the network port on the machine? Furthermore, the Task Manager can no longer call when the device is connected - the window opens and then stops responding, also remains empty. The CPU load increases with connecting the device to an intolerable degree, reasonable off or shut down is no longer reliably possible. These errors disappear when I put all the equipment directly to the notebook and renounce the dock. I'll be here again retested in detail whether perhaps only in the context of a particular device (ext HDD, Logitech Unifying receiver, printer, scanner -. Stop unfortunately all devices that I more or less urgently need) occurs, first the station, however, is under Windows 8 is not really suitable for me, because the problems with the system instability occur even if I ITEC station simply so infect, ie without additional devices.
Under OSX it looks a little better. While there are also here noticeable lag or shift the picture composition of windows, however, account for the remaining problems, the system stability does not seem to be worse here. Again, the Toshiba device my colleague does a better job in terms of susceptibility to lag, but you can with the I-TEC work even without getting a crisis.
Would ego buy again? For non-current state. If improve the driver here and works working with Windows 8 is the station at the price okay (3-4 stars), I would, however, probably in doubt next time you access to Toshiba.
