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Help needed with usb hubs with external power supply.?

Help needed with usb hubs with external power supply.?

I have two external hard drives (1TB WD and 1TB Hitachi and both with power adapter) and they are connected to my laptop all the time. Since the laptop has 3 ports, I don't have any problem. But whenever I try to connect them to a usb hub I can only use both of them at real low speeds (like usb 1.0), although they both get their power from the electricity outlet.

Is there any way that I connect them to a usb hub, and the hub to one of the laptop usb ports, and get full speed from both of them "at the same time"? If yes, which brand and model of usb hub do you suggest?

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago
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    the speed you get is the max speed of the slowest link in the chain

    it is not possible to get max speeds from both harddrives on one usb port, the max speed you will get then is the max speed of the usb port (which i guess is 2.0) which is also still faar from the speeds of a normal harddrive if they could use usb 3.0, firewire, thunderbolt or eSATA (a normal harddrive have a read/write at about 100MB/s and external drives are just a standard harddrive in a case and with a adapter)

    so with a usb port that uses usb 2.0 the limit speed is the usb port.

    however if your stuck on 1.0 speeds then disable legacy USB in the BIOS and it should solve that problem atleast.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    The power cable for your gadget is to make certain that every thing can run at their high-quality speeds. If you have probably the most seven gadgets pulling energy it pulls it faraway from the others. Whilst you run them they would must run all while. Its now not going to happen unexpectedly. You do not use the printer to print each moment, correct? The audio system do not sound like excessive wattage both and the mouse uses very little vigor in comparisons to the opposite instruments. Photo jogging a table saw on a 110v however what the brand recommends is 220v. It is going to run but when you push that board into the blade. Its going to bind or slow down and you ought to use it slower than you may. Velocity that we perceive is a belief just like the "glass 1/2 full or 1/2 empty", however I as a rule say, "the dude the glass as liquid in it!" neither a matter of one or the opposite negative or optimistic because the half or 1/2 notion is. It is without problems a statement of fact liquid in a pitcher. I might suggest instead of taking the chance of burning out the one hub that your powering the device off of, and very likely causing some problems with lack of energy on a different device. Attempt to purchase the twine from the manufacturers website or get an utterly new hub. Rationale being for those who ever run all devices without delay it could influence it. Is that a all-in-one kind of printer? Or if you change out one of the vital contraptions with whatever thing that requires extra energy.

  • 9 years ago

    more than likely the hub you are using is only usb1.0 you might try a 2.0 hub or some of these products https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=usb...

    that is if your laptop will handle usb 3.0

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