Guys if you have USB hubs mounted in your pits where are you putting them? I know it is a matter of personal preference but I am trying to make sure that I don't have to fumble around with the back of my computer once I get it in place. The fewer cable and cords I have visible the better off I will be in the long run.

So needing to plug in my Cougar MFD's, TM Warthog, Saitek Combat Pedals, TrackIR, keyboard and mouse....which need to go into at least one larger multiport powered hub I am just looking for ergonomic, well thought out placement. I do better when I have ideas from guys like you all that have spent hundreds of hours perfecting your place to play from.

This is what I'd recommend:

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=UH-12P

They can be bulkhead mounted fairly easily.

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I have two of those. They're not yet mounted but are between the TV and the front console and are sorta out of sight...

Thanks for the link on the hub. Now I just need a few more ideas on placement. I went ahead and ordered that hub to replace the two 4 ports hubs I already have sitting here.

I like this one too, with individual switches per port:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/usb-gadgets/e2d2/

Oh, and don't stay too long on the thinkgeek website. It'll cost too much money.

That is pretty slick but I do not really see an easy way to mount that one.

Love the look of that one. cut a rectangle in the hardboard i"m going to use to cover my consoles, mount the hub up to the cover so the switches poke through, and bam. I can select which controllers I want working when.

I would be careful about mounting them out of easy reach though. I had to do a lot of moving around to get everything up and running properly and that would've been a pain if the hub was inconveniently placed.

Each of the UM-80 USB monitors I have has two usb plugs: one for the display and one for power. With the other 8 ports in a 12port hub taken up, there were enough ports for the two monitors but not enough power: they kept cutting on and off. I then broke out the second 12port hub and plugged only the monitors into it and it was fine.

Posting to this thread to keep the info current, and help folks out.
I was in the market for a larger hub as I had out grown my 7 port CyberPower hub. I looked around at the current offerings and settle on a 10 port hub sold under a few names (they have the 2 flip up connectors). The hub arrived and seemingly worked fine, when I powered off the PC some USB devices remained powered up. I traced this back to the hubs power supply backfeeding to the PC (this poor design could have been avoided with a simple diode), this wasn't going to cut it for me (I'm not willing to risk the chance of trashing a PC over a $25 hub).
I looked around a bit more and found the MondoHub had hit the market. Not much data on it but it looked like a solid product (the 10 port hub also seemed decent on the supplied info) and it was a bit pricey (came with a great warranty - warranties are only as good as the company) and was more than I was looking for, but I figured it was worth a shot. In this case you get what you pay for, it is a heavy duty product in all respects, doesn't back feed, you can power on/off each port, connects via a decent length heavy cable (USB3/USB2) and has plenty of power.
Hope this helps, keep the thread current as I did look here for info prior to both purchases.

Thanks Stahl. I got one of the others from Thinkgeek but have been looking for another solution to get for my pit since the ones that I bought have ended up plugged into the wife's computer and the kids computer; so now I need one that will do it all.