The 3.5″ front panel drive bay mounting provision allows for easy installation in rack-mount industrial and military grade style chassis, as well as in home or office PCs. With the high retention type A USB connectors, the hub allows users to add USB-based I/O or peripherals to their embedded systems.
Powered by the Berg connector fed from the PC power supply, the USB-3.5-HUB can provide a full 500mA source at 5V on each of the downstream ports. Accessories include embedded OEM USB cables for connecting to an available host USB port on the user’s motherboard, and a power splitter cable for when the Berg connector is already being used.
No driver installation is required for the USB-3.5-HUB. Any USB compliant OS will automatically install it. The device will enumerate as a Generic Hub which uses the USB Hub Class Driver that is built into USB compliant OSs such as Linux and Windows.