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It was me and it's not available at Amazon under that name anymore but the identical hub is named PAG now. Do a search for pag usb hub on Amazon. These are great and do run on the Pi using usb3.

Yes. I seen it mentioned some where (but couldn't remember by who) and gave it a shot.

Been working great, except for if you push it hard, it gets way to hot.

Been thinking of opening it up to see if I could cut some slots and maybe add a little 5V Pi case fan, to get some air flow inside the hub to help keep it cool.

It gets hot? What are you running them at? My 4 have been at 300 since the start.

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I pushed the hub to the 70W limit (probably a little over) for a short time, did 4 sticks at 340 when it got hot (with plenty of air from fans blowing over the case).

Settled on 4 at 310, seems to be a good mix with the hub just being a little warm to the touch. With some kind of air flow going to the inside of the hub or through it, it would probably do 4 sticks at about 320-325 and stay cool.

Good to know that you can do four at these numbers. I was about to adjust all sticks on two Superbpages (8=4 ea).
Four/s-pag are pretty stable: I run four at bfgminer at default and four at cgminer gekko at 200-all ~11GH (have an experimental one at 800mv/350 on Anker with Y-that one could do 425, but require too much of a cooling effort).
I was thinking of trying just three/superbpag on 350 since I have a 2A/slot usb 2.0 Plugable coming tomorrow, so i can relocate two there.
Will report if 3 sticks/S-pag at 350 work or not.
EDIT: why do you think that four sticks consumed more than 70W even at 340? That would be 17.5W/stick for only ~17-19Gh/s or so. Seems excessive.

After I posted that, got to thinking, that was when I was moving sticks around trying a couple different setups and I might have had 6 plugged into it. It was getting kind of late and only ran it for ~1/2 hour or so, before I realized Shocked

I forgot to pull a couple before bumping the MHz up an the hub was good and hot.