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One Cable, Five Ports, 960GB SSD: The CASA Hub S Turns Your iPad or MacBook into a Powerful Desktop

ADAM Elements Hub S - USB-C Hub with SSD Storage

The modern office is wherever you can find a Wi-Fi signal and a flat surface. This freedom to work from anywhere, however, comes with its own set of challenges. Your laptop’s limited ports become a bottleneck when you need to connect a monitor, mouse, and charge your device simultaneously. At the same time, you need immediate access to large project files, and relying on slow coffee shop internet to pull them from the cloud is a recipe for missed deadlines. This constant juggle between connectivity and data access is the primary source of friction for today’s mobile professional.

The CASA Hub S is engineered specifically to eliminate that friction. It acts as a single, reliable bridge between your portable setup and a full-featured workstation. With its integrated SSD, your essential assets are stored locally, ready at speeds that cloud storage can’t match, while its collection of ports handles everything from 4K video output to peripherals and power delivery. It’s a device that understands the demands of a flexible work life, providing both the expanded digital real estate and the high-speed local storage needed to be productive, whether you’re at your home desk or miles away from it.

Designer: ADAM elements

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ADAM elements has been quietly building a reputation for accessories that actually think through the problem instead of just checking feature boxes. The CASA Hub S is probably their clearest example of this philosophy. You get 240GB, 480GB, or 960GB of NVMe SSD storage built directly into what would otherwise be a standard USB-C hub. The read speeds hit 520 MBps and writes clock in at 456 MBps, which puts it squarely in the territory of “actually usable as a working drive” rather than just backup storage. I’ve used plenty of external SSDs that claim similar numbers but choke when you’re actively editing 4K footage or working with massive Photoshop files. The performance here is consistent enough that the 480GB model is specifically recommended for Time Machine backups, which tells you they’re confident it won’t become a bottleneck.

The port selection feels well considered too. You get a USB-A 3.1 Gen 1 port running at 5 Gbps, a USB-C port with 60W Power Delivery passthrough, 4K HDMI output at 30Hz, and a 3.5mm audio jack. That HDMI port supports HDCP 2.2, which matters more than you’d think because it means you can actually stream Netflix in 4K without the annoying “this content is protected” error that cheaper hubs trigger. The audio jack outputs at 48kHz, 16-bit, which is perfectly adequate for most headphones and won’t introduce the weird ground loop hum that some hubs seem to love creating.

Looking at the physical design you realize how ADAM elements clearly designed this with iPad Pro users in mind. That 16cm cable length seems arbitrary until you realize it’s the exact sweet spot that lets the hub lay flat on a desk instead of dangling awkwardly off the side of your tablet. It’s a small detail, but it’s the kind of thing that separates products designed by people who actually use them from products designed by people staring at CAD files. The whole thing weighs 70 grams and comes with a flannel carrying pouch, which again, small detail, but it shows someone thought about how this thing actually travels.

The aluminum chassis is a perfect blend of sleek, lightweight, and heat-dissipating, that makes it an ideal pick for something as portable and productivity-boosting as this hub. ADAM elements went with a Space Gray finish that matches the MacBook aesthetic without being obnoxiously matchy-matchy. The device is plug and play across macOS, iOS 13 and later, iPadOS, Windows 8/10, and Chrome OS. No driver installation, no proprietary software, no account creation. You plug it in and it works, which in 2026 somehow still feels like a minor miracle.

The pricing structure spans three capacities, with the 240GB model landing at $69.30, the 480GB at $132.30, and the 960GB at $209.30 through the end of February using code 30YANKOHUBS. That puts the middle option at roughly the combined cost of a decent standalone SSD and a quality hub bought separately, which makes the value proposition pretty straightforward for anyone who was planning to grab both anyway. The real win here is eliminating one device from your bag and one cable from your setup, which for mobile workers translates to actual daily convenience rather than just saving a few dollars. ADAM elements backs it with a three-year warranty, and the hub is available now directly from their site, which means you skip the Amazon reseller lottery and get support directly from people who actually designed the thing.

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