How's this still holding up??? I'm considering getting one.Consider this one...
Qwiizlab USB C Hub Stand with Dual Drive Enclosure, Docking Station for Mac Studio Mac Mini M2/M1/Intel, Type-C 10Gbps, Card Readers 100MB/s, Fits M.2 NVMe NGFF SSD & 2.5'' SATA SSD (Silver)
Qwiizlab UH35 is an innovation to combine USB 3.1 Type-C hub and SSD/HDD enclosure in an elegant and sleek aluminum monitor riser. It is a surprising compact accessory for you to resolve expansion issues of Mac mini and Mac Studio. Featuring USB-C data port up to 10Gbps, USB-A data port up to 10G...www.amazon.com
You get the benefit of a stand, plus extra ports on the front, and it has an enclosure for both a SSD and an NVME drive.
I got my iMac this week, and was able to leverage this and the enclosure for extra storage a a much better rate than the tax on storage. I ordered a 16 GB RAM iMac with 256 GB drive and added the stand with enclosure plus 2TB SSD, and 2TB NVME for less than I would have paid for a 1 TB iMac. Yes, the drive speeds are slower using the enclosure, but for my use, they are plenty fast enough.
Overall, pretty good. The hub initially suffered from the same USB drive issues that have been covered at length here. Intermittent messages about the drives being ejected happened. Especially when copying files from one of the drives in the hub to the other. The solution was to use a slower USB cable. Once I copied the files I needed to, I switched out the cable to a Thunderbolt cable from UGREEN. That seemed to help and I rarely get a disconnect error now. Could be that one of Apple's updates "fixed" the problem, but it seems to work much better now. I'm not a power user so I don't do a lot of copying files from one drive to the other anyway. Bottom line, it works for me, and it works well.
