When connected to USB hub same performance or less?

[Big-Mac-Please]

Hello

I have a belkin USB hub that I use and I would like to know if the USB ports on hubs have the same performance as the ones on the macine?

The hub has a mains power supply so I don't know if that boosts the performance?

The reason I ask is because I want to buy and external hard drive caddy and most of them seem to be USB2.0

I don't want to get one if its going to be mega slow because its going through a hub

Thanx for anyhelp!

BigMac

 

[Big-Mac-Please]

Thanx for the replys

It was an expensive hub (£50) but the shop had miss priced a load so I got it for £20 heehee!

The hub is USB2.0 and it will be attached to a mac mini also 2.0

The only other thing attached to the HUB is my wireless microsoft mouse so hopefully that shouldn't use too much mb/s?

Thanx again for the help its good to know.