Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Would be great, if it was reliable

I shopped around and this looked like a decent looking hub that met my needs (powered, 7 port). I needed to plugin 2 external drives, mouse, scanner, 2 ipods and sometimes my cell phone or camera. I found that my mouse would stop working from time to time. Power cycling the hub helped. Worse than that was running a VM (via VMWare) stored on the USB drive. Speed wasn't so bad, but after a while, VMWare complained the drive wasn't available. Sure enough, it wasn't mounted anymore. After putting up with this for a few months, not being sure what was at fault, the hub quit altogether. Kensington replaced it under warranty, but the new hub also showed the same issues with the drive. I have none of these issues plugging directly into my computer. I'm fed up and cannot recommend this! I'm shopping for something more reliable!