Seeking Recommendations For A Snow Leopard-Compatible USB Hub

It has been suggested that my CablesToGo 7-port powered USB hub might be the cause of some of the kernel panics I have experienced since upgrading to 10.6.4. I understand that there are no guarantees when it comes to USB, but is there a brand that seems to have fewer problems than others? I don't need 7 ports, just reliability.

Is this one bus powered? Hard to tell from the picture and I couldn't find anything that looked similar on the Belkin site; in any case, personally I would only recommend hubs that are self-powered - see this excerpt of a Wiki article:
+A bus-powered hub is a hub that draws all its power from the host computer's USB interface. It does not need a separate power connection. However, many devices require more power than this method can provide, and will not work in this type of hub.+
+USB current (related to power) is allocated in units of 100 mA up to a maximum total of 500 mA per port. Therefore a compliant bus powered hub can have no more than four downstream ports and cannot offer more than four 100 mA units of current in total to downstream devices (since one unit is needed for the hub itself). If more units of current are required by a device than can be supplied by the port it is plugged into, the operating system usually reports this to the user.+
+In contrast a self-powered hub is one that takes its power from an external power supply unit and can therefore provide full power (up to 500 mA) to every port. Many hubs can operate as either bus powered or self powered hubs.+

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