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ORICO Transparent USB 3 0 Desktop Hub - TESTED & REVIEWED
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May 30, 2025
Sure, you can get a USB hub that turns your one plug into two or four, but does it look cool? Do you want it on your desk and will people ooh and ahh over it? Tech expert Dave Taylor of htttps://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checked out one of the coolest desktop USB 3.0 hubs, from ORICO, and found it cool and fun both. Not only does it have four USB 3.0 plugs, you can use it as a powered hub completely independent from your computer, or you can plug it into your computer with the supplied cable and promptly have three extra ports for flash drives, smartphones, tablets, even external hard drives. Learn more: http://amzn.to/2yn9RWW
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is this the best USB desktop hub on the
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market
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well it's certainly one of the coolest
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looking let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and this time we're
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looking at the Orrico USB 3.0 desktop
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hub that's this buried underneath all
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these wires because I wanted to start
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right out and show you how darn useful
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this is I have one thing plugged into my
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computer and then on the hub I get four
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ports so I have a microphone I have a
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hard drive I have a Amazon Kindle
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charging and I have a little thumb drive
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just a little flash drive guy and
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everything shows up on the computer
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everything works fine in a second we'll
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do a speed test of copying data to and
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from the hard drive but I also want to
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point out that Kindles are notoriously
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fickle about power so this puts out 0.9
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amps on each plug and that's exactly
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what you'd get if you plugged it into
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the computer so a minimal output is
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point 5 amps which gives you 2.5 watts
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of power that's not really enough to
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charge much of anything that's when you
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plug in something and it says low power
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source not charging the Kindle kind of
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does that a lot
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so 0.9 amps times 5 volts gives you 4.5
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watts so this is a four point five watt
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charger now usually what you get on a
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smart phone if you get either a one watt
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or a two watt or maybe 10 Watts sorry 1
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amp 2 amps it's complicated all this
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stuff so a 1 amp charger is your sort of
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general low-power slow charge a 2 amp or
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2.1 amp is where you get more wattage
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and this is where you get the fast
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charge and not every device can handle
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that so just to sort of put this in
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perspective this is not intended to be a
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fast charge device for your smartphone
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so if you plug 4 things into this
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there'll be 4 slow charges but it's
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exactly what you want because it's a
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powered USB hub for computer usage it's
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not a four port charger so I think
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that's really important because I think
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people are going to look at this too
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and say wait a minute that's not gonna
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fast charge my phone and this not what
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is for so as a regular generic USB hub
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it's actually pretty slick so let's do
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some test and then I'll unplug
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everything and show you how it works but
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in the meantime I hope you can see
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there's a really cool little green LED
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glow underneath it when it's powered so
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let's switch to the computer I'll do a
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quick file copy test onto the hard drive
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and then I'll come back and tell you
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more about it so here's the two drives
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from the Oracle USB desktop hub and
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here's a one gigabyte test file so let's
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open this up and let's copy this on to
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that drive and we'll see how long that
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takes and I'm gonna do this in real time
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so it's not gonna be glamorous but
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that's pretty darn fast for one gigabyte
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I would say done now let's rename it
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test file too and then we'll copy it
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back onto the desktop so we'll put it
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back here and let's see how long it
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takes in the other direction usually
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this would be even faster and as you can
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see it's running at roughly the same
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speed nothing to complain about there
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that works great okay so that worked
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pretty darn fast now let's take it apart
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and have a look so I'm going to close
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the computer and then we're gonna just
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start disassembling it right so first
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off let's go ahead and take the little
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flash drive out I know I should have
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ejected devices so it goes flash drive
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I'll do that
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and then let's see this is the Kindle
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that's why it just told me hey I'm no
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longer plugged in it's no longer
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charging as you would expect this is the
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plug for my microphone so we'll just put
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that aside here and then finally this
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plug is for the hard drive so now we
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have unplugged our handy little hard
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drive when I put that here and now the
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only thing we have left is the hub
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itself which is plugged into the
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computer so let's unplug that I'll let
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you watch the blue light goes out as we
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should because now the
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no power so this is the whole USB hub
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this is the Orrico USB 3.0 transparent
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desktop hub and it's pretty interesting
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so the four USB plugs are on the top but
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here's what's interesting is that on the
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side there are two basic power or
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connectivity sources so if you use micro
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USB as I have here with a little charger
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if you use the micro USB I hate that you
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have to orient the plug then it's a
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powered and this is just plugged into a
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generic wall plug the kind of thing
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you'd get with a smartphone so no real
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rocket science here so you can use this
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on your side table for slow charging
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your devices or four USB things that
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don't necessarily need to be hooked up
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to a computer not sure what the usage
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case there is but you might have one but
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of course where this gets much more
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interesting is this USB B connector
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which you have that comes with the
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cables so you don't have to panic and
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that is actually the data connection for
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your computer so you plug it in and it's
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a little tricky plug it into your
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computer and you are good to rock and
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roll and it's again the light comes on
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and this little hub is ready to take on
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whatever you want to plug into it which
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is really cool and I really like it I
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love the transparent design it's just
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fun it's sort of this retro ooh circuit
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board chips cool but it's interesting
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you know much more than just sort of yet
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another generic piece of white plastic
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so there's a lot I like about this if
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you really didn't want to use a regular
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USB three turns out you can get exactly
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the same sort of cable with USB C so
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you'd have that on one end and USB C on
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the other and then you could use this as
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four USB 3.0 connections on a brand new
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MacBook Pro with just USB C so it's a
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really smart and inexpensive way to get
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a lot of USB devices plugged in and of
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course that would work with any other
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USB C device to that cable is not
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included this cable is
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keep that in mind now before I tell you
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the price let me just ask you do me a
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favor and please go ahead and click the
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comments or feedback feel free to leave
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them on the comments section too and
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it's really helpful for me now price or
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a co USB 3.0 desktop hub transparent as
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you can see and how much does this cost
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you it's crazy cheap $14.99 you can pick
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one up at newegg.com and if you look
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around you might find it for even less
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online as I did so definitely worth
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checking out I really like it this is
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Dave Taylor and I'll catch you in my
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next video
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