Pretty much any externally powered USB hub will work fine for you. I have a Staples branded 7 port USB hub that works fine, and has attached to it my printer, Wacom tablet, CanoScan scanner, media card reader, iPod, and camera depending on what might be hooked in at any given time. The other built in USB port goes to a USB external disk drive, everything else is peripherals through the hub on the other one. I have a Nikon D40 DSLR camera (love to take a photograph/momma don't take my Kodachrome away!) that I transfer pictures from and while the documentation for the cam states "attach the D40 directly to your USB port, don't use any hubs" pictures transfer just fine with the hub, and pretty quickly as well. This is important when you have 4 GB SD cards these days and you need to transfer 500+ raw images (or even jpg fine, which are pretty beefy at about 5 meg each) after a shoot.