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£113.68 inc. VAT
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For £94.88 ex-VAT, this StarTech industrial USB 3.0 hub is only a good buy if you specifically need the “industrial” bits: metal build, proper protection (including ESD), and the option to mount it neatly on a wall or desk. In real office/warehouse deployments—dirty power environments, lots of plug/unplug, shared workstations—those features can save you from the kind of flaky USB behaviour that turns into hours of troubleshooting. If you’ve got multiple USB-A peripherals that *must* stay stable (barcode scanners, rugged drives, dongles, label printers), this is the sort of hub that tends to behave better than cheap plastic ones.
That said, it’s not the right choice for everyone. If you just need an extra couple of ports for a keyboard/mouse/phone charging, you’re overpaying—plain desktop hubs will do the job and you’ll never notice the industrial protections. Also, don’t expect it to “fix” bandwidth-hungry setups: USB 3 hubs still share the link to the host, so if you’re clustering lots of storage devices or high-throughput capture, you may still run into performance limits. Buy this if your priority is reliability and mounting in a rougher environment; skip it if your use is light and the budget matters.

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