Another Windows oddity?
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Another Windows oddity?
My desktop has six USB ports, 2 front, 4 rear, all designated as USB2.0.
Because the rear ones are inconvenient and because I'm lazy I've put a 4-way hub in one of the front ones. Nearly every time I connect anything there's a message telling me that I will do better connecting to a 2.0 port.
The list of ports then presented totals 8, so obviously including the hub, which is rated 2.0.
Something else to just live with?
Because the rear ones are inconvenient and because I'm lazy I've put a 4-way hub in one of the front ones. Nearly every time I connect anything there's a message telling me that I will do better connecting to a 2.0 port.
The list of ports then presented totals 8, so obviously including the hub, which is rated 2.0.
Something else to just live with?
I've had this kind of setup before, and it worked as USB2... but it was only temporary. I won't put a USB2 disk behind a hub if it can be avoided - why put an extra device in the chain if you don't have to?
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rear USB ports ONLY
Seagate specifies "rear ports" because on some older systems the front ports are 1.1 and the customer doesn't realise this, and on some systems they're 2.0 but cause problems with fast devices (see above). Finally, on some motherboards only the rear ports are root hubs, so anything sensitive to not being connected to a root hub will have problems with the front ports anyway. Finally finally, since the rear ports are root hubs, they are not sharing bandwidth so the external drive can perform as advertised.
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I have one of these 2-port USB extenders to present 2 of the the 4 rear USB ports to the front:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?...=1m11#overview
It works fine with USB 2 devices (hard disks & removable storage devices).
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http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?...=1m11#overview
It works fine with USB 2 devices (hard disks & removable storage devices).
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Thanks for all the replies.
The hub is powered from the USB port (front) and it sounds as if moving it to the rear port might produce better results.
Certainly plenty of useful info there to consider.
The hub is powered from the USB port (front) and it sounds as if moving it to the rear port might produce better results.
Certainly plenty of useful info there to consider.
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The hub is powered from the USB port
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