StarTech.com 4-Port USB C Hub - USB-C to 4X USB-A Ports - SuperSpeed 10Gbps USB 3.1/3.2 Gen 2 Type-C Hub - USB Bus Powered - Portable/Compact USB-C to USB Adapter Hub for Laptop - Aluminum (HB31C4AB)

Mac Studio M1 only comes with 2 Type-A USB ports on the back. This adds an additional 4 without having to buy A-to-C adapters for all your legacy devices. And my experience with StarTech is that it is built with quality and made to last (instead of all the other no-name junk adapters that fail in 6months to a year)

It works and has for a few years now. Worth every penny!

I will not bash Startech. They make some pretty kick A$$ stuff, good bit of it I have. However, lately I have noticed some things related to some of the new products that have me concerned that they are slipping into the “made in China” mold... this type C unit is a good example of that. It functions as it should, but for what the cost is I thought it would have a metal body. This is ABS plastic. A rigid type C cable will cause it to flip over... also it needs a way to power the hub so that you can run ext HDDs from it. If there’s only one type C port on your machine, you will be selling yourself short if you plan on running more than SSD and thumb drives on this splitter/hub. Also if the body had an option of a removable cable with a type A female socket, it would give you more options. Personally I hate the “type C” connectors’ design, too dainty for my taste, and are easily made loose killing the connection... plus on having those on the actual unit. Seems almost like this was made to give 4 USB 3.1 Gen 1 low voltage devices all maximum data I/O,

Quality is great, however I purchased to run 4 external hd. But 15 watt rating would only boot up 2 drives at a time. I will pay attention next time before I purchase a usb hub. I was a little surprised at this since a usb 3.1 gen 2 plug on my pc is capable of 100 watts I believe.

Bought the 0.7x0.6x1.7 versionPlugged in four WD external USB drives to this hub. Plugged the USB-C end into my 10gig USB-C port in back of computer. Drives come up then go down then come up and go down again. Windows is saying the drives have errors and then they vanish from the system.I plugged in my old USB 3.0 hub back in which is external powered and the four drives work fine again.So this hub can't handle four USB external drives. Each drive has its own external power by the way.. I'm not stupid and think the hub will power them through the port.

There is a reason why the price of this is so low.First the good:1) Easily connects up to Thunderbolt2) Attached devices are recognized almost immediately.3) Able to hook up external drives that either required power or no power with no issues4) Works for charging devices like headphones when laptop is offNow the bad1) Supposed to be 10 GB/s. Have such a device, and when connected directly through Thunderbolt, I get close to the speed advertised of the PCI NVMe 3x4 SSD. However, same item connected to this, which is supposed to be 10 Gb/s, I am only getting around 5 GB/s. I have two of these and sadly, both behave the same2) Lately, I have been using it to charge my iPhone. When one cable seemed to start acting like it went bad, I threw it out. I put in a good cable later that day, and it started behaving the same. Hook cable up to direct laptop port and the cable works fine.Other thoughts:I would have returned both of these if I had known that it would not get up to the advertised speed. I bought these to future proof my system, but when the future arrived, it did not look good.

Plugged into Motherboard ( X470/Ryzen 2700X ) USB-C port , all 4 USB-A ports test at 459.1 MB/s Read and 453.1 MB/s Write with a Samsung 860 EVO 500GB mounted in a Vantec NexStar USB 3.1 Gen 2 external enclosure ( NST-270A31-BK ). Thats ALMOST what the drive gets hooked up directly to a SATA III port, and in an actual transfer...I transferred a 45GB folder of 4K and 1080P movies that was on the drive...to the 1TB NVMe boot drive on the motherboard. It transferred at 405 MB/s for the entire transfer, no buffer shenanigans...just straight raw speed for the entire transfer. Awesome little hub here !!!

I bought this to connect the Oculus rift to an Alienware 17 r5 laptop. The Rift needs 4 high speed USB 3.0 ports for room scale and this connected to the USB 3.1 gen 2 thunderbolt port on the back to serve the purpose. Works flawlessly after some tweaks to Windows 10. I had to tell windows to not sleep or go into low power states on the USB ports in the power settings and the device manager. After these adjustments the sensors we're recognized by the Oculus software as 3.0 and passed the setup. Prior to changing the Windows 10 settings the Oculus Rift setup failed, one to two sensors showed as USB 2.0 and sometimes all three had issues.