Originally Posted by
Mary2e
The laptop has USB-c ports and I recognize I probably will need a hub. My issue is will I need one to go from USB (old) to new USB-C.
As I mentioned previously, take a look at bluetooth wireless keyboard and pointing device. No need to waste ports on them anymore. Your pending move to Hawaii gives you a good chance to reevaluate all those old peripherals and upgrade them rather than lug everything to Hawaii.
Not sure if you really need a hub ... You can consolidate and eliminate wired kbd/mouse, and go with a network enabled printer/scanner.
I'm using an Anker 565 usb-c hub that also powers the laptop. Combined with an Anker 736 100w charger. The charger powers the hub, the hub uses 15w and sends up to 85w to the laptop. I don't need to travel with that, just use it to plug in a few things at home (audio, ethernet, external drive). I've tried a ton of different hubs and docking stations, this one seems to be working pretty well, but they all misbehave when the power goes out, even for an instant. They have other versions of this, but I'd stick with newer Anker hubs if you really need it at all. Maybe if you go with a bluetooth kbd/mouse and network enabled printer/scanner you might have enough ports for everything else you need?
I've also upgraded my external storage (backups, etc) to Samsung T7 SSDs, which can be had for around $80 for 1TB usually. They are native USB-C but they come with both usb-c to c and usb-c to a cables. I only plug one of those into my hub because of their power requirements. 2 might work, but I haven't tried that.
I just back up my quicken data files to the cloud. (two different ones in fact) and I keep monthly, weekly, daily backups.
All data is backed up to the cloud and external storage drives for a nightly image and time machine backups (mac).
-David