I've owned quite a few USB hubs and this one is, by far, the easiest to use I've had yet. Plug it in to the computer and hook up the AC adapter...and you're up and running. That's it, couldn't have been easier to install. It's also fast, one thing that used to drag my other hubs down was moving stuff from one external drive to another if they were both on the same hub. I'm not sure if this thing has some built-in feature for doing that in a cleaner way, but it is a lot faster than anything I'd seen before.