Usb hub do you need a special one for Mac

I have a new iMac 21.5 "with USB 3.0 ports
1. do I need usb hub with support for MAC
2. will a USB 2.0 Hub work with a the USB 3.0 port

Niel,
I have read of devices being fried Rosewill USB 2.0 Hub 7-Port HUB with Power Adapter (RHUB-300) something smelt funny, but $2,800.00 of my hardware and livelihood(camera) were cooking and Rosewill was the stove., October 23, 2014
Beware it could fry your your devices, September 6, 2013
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This review is from: Rosewill USB 2.0 Hub 7-Port HUB with Power Adapter (RHUB-300) (Personal Computers)
Worked well for a while until one day this hub fried 2 of my external drives in a row. Plugged one in and it wouldn't mount on my Mac and got a message that my drive was trying to draw too much power and was disabled. It was a seagate 3.0 1TB drive, relatively new. Plugged another drive that I just unplugged from another computer and same thing happened. Now both drives are dead.
It appears that Anker, Sabrent and perhaps Amazon Basics make reliable product any other suggestions for a USB 2.0 Hub?

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