
Labeling the ports with a printed strip is a great idea! I’ll have to copy great quora link. Thanks for any helpful thanks for confirming I’m not going to have much of a performance issue. If there is a better, more popular USB hub, I’d like to know about it and would get that instead as my second USB hub for the computer. I’m just a happy purchaser and would like to know if another one would be a good idea for the mess of controllers now connected to my computer (with more to come! - Honeycomb yoke and separate throttle quadrant I hope when the feeding frenzy for these has died down).

The nice thing about the Sabrent USB hub that I reference is that individual USB ports on the hub can be turned on or off, there is a nice blue LED light for each switch for On/Off status, and the whole port is AC-powered (and gets rather warm in use!). The second part of my question is does leaving a controller plugged into a computer forever, whether one is gaming or not, have any noticeable effect on the hardware lifespan of the average controller. flight sticks and advertises their setup as saving USB ports). Is a USB hub going to significantly affect controller performance, e.g., lag time, in any way? (I suspect not as Thrustmaster has a scheme for plugging their TFRP rudder pedals into their H.O.T.A.S. So I’ve already been using a very functional switchable USB hub to control other devices, i.e., barcode scanner, label printer, high-speed paper scanner, USB array mike. USB ports on my computer are disappearing fast as I add controllers, particular those on the front of my computer as my computer set up (BIG dining room table in big kitchen “breakfast” nook) requires a much longer cable run to get to the rear of the computer.
