U100 Lite

Back in 'the old days' there were many types of input and output ports for connecting devices to a microomputer. There were parallel ports for connecting to dot-matrix printers, and serial ports for connecing to 'letter quality' printers. Keyboards required a diffeent port type. The serial port could also be used for mice (if you had an application that could use one), bar code scanners, and of ourse that absolutely requied device - a dial-up modem for connecting to bulletin board systems or other computers. This was all pre-internet. There were SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) which let you attach a hard disk, or a ZIP drive, or a really good flat-bed scanner. This was all pre-Internet. If fyou had multiple devices which needed the same port, you might need an "A/B" switch to manually select the device. There were cables all over the place. And more often than not you had to go into the equivalent of SETTINGS to make adjustments because the needs of the devices were different.Windows 95 attempted to change some of that - introducing "Plug and Play". It helped. But it also got renamed "Plug and Pray". Somewhere between Windows 95 and WIndows 98 the USB (Universal Serial Bus) techmology was introduced. It changed everything. If you were lucky you had perhaps 4 ports on a desktop, and perhaps 2 on a notebook. But the need for more, especially when a notebook might be used at an office with more needs, butt taken home for simpler use it became apparent that the office site might need a 'docking station'. These were often designed for specific models of notebooks. Just snap it onto the back of the notebook and you had your connections at hand.I have so many things attached to my desktop computer that I had various nubs hanging off the back - out of convenient reach. This docking statipon by HAGiBiS addresses that problem. It is implemented at USB 3 level which can send or recieve data at considerbly faster rates than USB 1.1 and 2, yet is backwards comapatible if needed. It has bullt-in ports fo the mix that I need and doesn't require so many cables running to the back of themachine. Although it may be aragetted towrds the Mac world (whose machines are deinitely short on ports) it will work with Windows machines just nicely, thank you.By the way - the two cables provided are 'armored' braided. One is USB A to USB C, the other is USB-C to USB-C. The dock is clearly marked and points out that one port is used for charging the docking station, but can not charge the host.And last but not least, who doesn't enjoy a little light show indicating that something is happening. One doesn't really expect this of that something which is essentially 'infrasctructure', but HAGiSiS has added a little 'flash'. Thank you.

El producto es bueno podría ser mejor pero sufre con las conexiones, un problema menor pero por eso no es excelente

Okay so let me describe this to you. To me it's much more like a USB hub that also has a memory card reader and also for some reason has memory card storage slots along with an NVMe reader, and on top of it all it has a really cool RGB disco light thing going on. It's like they took a couple different inventions and kind of meshed them all together which is actually kind of convenient. Honestly I really did like the RGB lights I thought they were pretty cool... I also really liked how the side panels come off easily with pull, and they pop back on with magnetic closures. It does take two wires to plug it into your computer but luckily those wires were provided. It is funny how two of the ports are USB 3.1 and two of the ports are USB 2.0 but then on the other side that port is USB 3.0. there is also a USB-C port and then the buttons that control the lighting. There is no obvious way to clone data. There seems to be a headphone jack on it but I don't have any devices that need a headphone jack I was wondering what that's even for, I'm wondering if we can play mp3s off of a memory card or something.

Documentation is unreadable and unhelpful at its best. Nice selection of input and output ports and pretty lights.

Seems defective, it keeps losing the connection to the SSD (M.2) drive. And it seems all the other reviews are from Vine users.

great Docking Station. all in one With built in Storage Fast tranfers

It has an M.2 NVMe ssd reader slot, for one. It also has 4 SD card storage alcoves on the other side (opposite of the M.2 SSD slot). This can be really good if you're a videographer or photographer who uses a lot of SD cards in their workflow. It is definitely on the bulky side, but consider all that it has to offer, that might just be an acceptable trade off (assuming you have a heavy SD card workflow, for instance––or use tons of USB-A based peripherals). It DOES potentially eat up 2 of your USB-C ports, however (if you want the max speed). However, thankfully, it does allow you still use it in a less intensive capacity while only utilizing one of the USB-C ports on your host machine.