domino Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 I may have this problem with too many USB devises on my machine. Will it be a problem using a 4 port USB2 HUB on each of the 4 ports on the rear of the PC? That would give me 16 available USB ports. I currently have: 1- usb2 webcam 1- usb mouse 1- usb keyboard 1- Pocket PC base station 2- usb2 external drives at 300gig each 1- USB2 digital camera base station 1- 802.11g USB stick Coming soon: 1- Super G USB stick 2- usb2 external drives at 300gig each I do have 2 more available USB ports on the front of the PC which I refuse t o use because it looks butt ugly with wires sticking out in front of an XPC machine. I have upgraded to the SilentX 350w PSU, so I know that shouldn't be a problem so long as I keep the overclock to a minimum. To the experienced, is this overkill? Has anyone known of a USB port break because of too much devices connected it? Does anyone know a rule of thumb for paring devises so it uses minimum bandwidth and power per port? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20995-overloaded-usb-ports/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Is the hub power\ed? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20995-overloaded-usb-ports/#findComment-139070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 USB's are basically, identified by *nix as SCSI. Theoritically you can have some 16000 devices in a chain. Just to be safe, for the Pocket PC/Memstick/Digicam/HDD use a powered hub. They genrally wont overload ur PSU. The external HDD's have a seperate PSU, so they shoud not be a problem anyway. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20995-overloaded-usb-ports/#findComment-139167 Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 hmm, I have never seen a powered USB hub sold here, so it's safe to say that the one I'll be buying is a normal USB2 HUB. Actually, the Pocket PC base does have its own power supply so I take it i'm safe in that area. The only things that don't have its own PSU is that wifi stick kb, digicam, and mouse. I'll try to find a USB HUB that's powered. Thanks for the advise. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20995-overloaded-usb-ports/#findComment-139225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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