Tritton XD300 Docking Station

I bought 3 of these for different projects. Mostly as powered hubs, and not so much for the peripherals.One project has the Enet port dedicated to one other device with a short crossover, and the other 2 use the audio output. Otherwise, the primary purpose is to be a powered hub.One of them connects multiple USB hard drives to one Raspberry Pi, and another connects a USB touchscreen monitor to another Raspberry Pi. The USB hard drives don't have another power source; and the screen refuses to use its own power source, and resets the Pi instead if connected directly.My original idea was to use the VGA output to drive a CRT monitor that I already had, from the Pi, but it turns out that this particular VGA chip *only* works with Windows. It's not standards-compliant, which means that the universal driver in Linux can't use it like it can anything else, and the manufacturer has only written a replacement driver for Windows.Even on Windows though, don't expect too much, as it has to share the limited bandwidth of a single USB2 port with the Enet adapter, mic and headphones, and whatever you've plugged into the other ports. Even a video feed all by itself is a strain for USB2. It'll do mostly-static images okay, like word processing or text-and-image-based web surfing, but that's about it. Don't expect it to play YouTube full-screen in 1080p60, while also using its Enet port to retreive that data.I wasn't expecting much; mostly an administrative terminal for a NAS that might also gain some auxiliary functions as a result of being a full PC that is always on and powered entirely from this hub except for the CRT, but this non-standard reinvention of a wheel that didn't need reinventing, killed that idea. So the VGA output has never been used on any of them, except to figure out what was wrong with it.

I purchased this for work so I could connect a third LCD. It worked so well I purchased another for home. It is very easy to setup. Works perfect.Once you have a extra Monitor, you can never go back. It is great to be able to watch a movie on one screen and surf the net on the other.Great product, easy to install...I recommend it..It is much cheaper than another video card.

Drivers are super slow/outdated, and a huge system resource hog, causing noticeable system lag. A number of other more modern solutions.

What's not to love? It's an extension to your computer right? ... well yes and no.I thought I really could use this, as a way to have two monitors on my laptop, easier than using the side VGA port.Well the video does work, but it changes Windows 7, to basic - which is flat - I like transparent, it also took over the audio - but I already use a KVM with audio and those settings don't work so well through this, also because I had my external monitor hooked through my laptop VGA port, the same monitor hooked through this instead appears as a 3rd monitor - even though not hooked up at the same time - and that was chaos.So -- I'm using it as a powered USB hub - occasionally and will probably find some other use for it.Would be best if used as a docking station for a laptop without a VGA out and where you don't care that it's going to change from Windows 7 transparency etc, to Windows Basic.Good design, solid little device - just didn't fit my need as well as I expected.

resolution of VGA port isn't convinient for a HDTV and video of windows media player and media center doesn't work.Plastic case make some noise sometime : look like plastic espanding.Others features work great.