How many devices do you have plugged in to your USB port(s)?

dandy72

Since my PC is an Intel NUC, I've got practically everything running off of USB instead of the usual connectors. It's got exactly one USB port in use, and it's going to a Plugable UD-3000 USB hub, which provides an additional VGA port, Ethernet, audio and a bunch of additional USB3 connectors, one of which is going back to another hub. The following are all hooked up via USB: - Keyboard - Mouse - SoundBlaster X-Fi (5.1 audio) - Two monitors - External SATA/USB hard drive adapter (the toaster kind where you just pop in a drive, not an enclosure) - DVD burner - Web cam (which fell somewhere behind my monitor eons ago but is still plugged in) - MicroSD reader - One or two extra cables for recharging devices - Zune (seriously, this thing won't die and I listen to podcasts on it daily) The printers (one color / one B&W), scanner and UPS are all hooked up to other computers so I don't suppose they count.

Nish Nishant

Kinda like RAID-0 for flash chips I guess.

Regards, Nish

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Chris Maunder

Marc Clifton wrote:

credit card reader

ID scanner

Verifone pinpa

I'm surprised the spam filter didn't jump to conclusions on this one...

cheers Chris Maunder

Brisingr Aerowing

None.

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kalberts

At work: Let's start out with the ten Bluetooth Smart dongles... Yeah, we develop them, and the software to mesh them up in a network. The protocol sniffer for testing and a Bluetooth master, of course. Mouse and keyboard and headphones and Skype speaker and portable disk. And the wireless charger. That's the fixed stuff. All the time there is a need for plugging in signal analyzers and temperature sensors and that kind of stuff. FPGA boards. Sometimes, we need USB-to-RS232 adapters to interface to lab equipment lacking USB interface. If the two 10-way hubs get full (not too often, though), there are usually a couple extra sockets left in the PC. At home it is more limited. Keyboard, mouse, webcam and headphones, printer and flatbed scanner, of course. Usually two portable disks. A multistandard card reader, a numeric keypad, a thermometer, an ISDN adapter, three Arduino cards, a software license dongle and a MIDI cable to my old style keyboard (which only has archaic 5-pin DIN connectors). A transmitter for old-style infrared remote control. Temporary connections for cellphone charging, for my two still photo cameras and video camera. Every now and then someone comes with a floppy disk, so I have to plug in that USB floppy unit. I also have an SATA-to-USB adapter that comes in handy when someone has trouble with their disks and wants me to look at it. I actually have an external CD-reader I use now and then to play my single(!) multichannel audio DTS CD - I haven't found a way to read it through my PC software, but I can hook up a digital cable from the "raw" output of the external CD player, directly to my amplifier, and it will play it, while the player is controlled by the PC (even if it cannot reproduce the sound). ... Are there really that many cables behind my PC, without me worrying about it? Well, blame it on cables being orderly fixed to the wall where appropriate, and proper use of hubs to move the cable mess away from the main box. Actually, the USB usage is more varied at home than at work, even though the total count may be higher at work. I've never been even close to the USB limit of 128 units on a single hub (or rather: tree), though, neither at work nor at home. We did have some issues at work with the optical fiber USB units; the firmware in those switches were limited to 13 units (and remember that the hubs also count as a unit), so running ten Bluetooth slaves and a master left no room for other USB functions. For new setups, we have different solution without that limitation.

kalberts

At work: Let's start out with the ten Bluetooth Smart dongles... Yeah, we develop them, and the software to mesh them up in a network. The protocol sniffer for testing and a Bluetooth master, of course. Mouse and keyboard and headphones and Skype speaker and portable disk. And the wireless charger. That's the fixed stuff. All the time there is a need for plugging in signal analyzers and temperature sensors and that kind of stuff. FPGA boards. Sometimes, we need USB-to-RS232 adapters to interface to lab equipment lacking USB interface. If the two 10-way hubs get full (not too often, though), there are usually a couple extra sockets left in the PC. At home it is more limited. Keyboard, mouse, webcam and headphones, printer and flatbed scanner, of course. Usually two portable disks. A multistandard card reader, a numeric keypad, a thermometer, an ISDN adapter, three Arduino cards, a software license dongle and a MIDI cable to my old style keyboard (which only has archaic 5-pin DIN connectors). A transmitter for old-style infrared remote control. Temporary connections for cellphone charging, for my two still photo cameras and video camera. Every now and then someone comes with a floppy disk, so I have to plug in that USB floppy unit. I also have an SATA-to-USB adapter that comes in handy when someone has trouble with their disks and wants me to look at it. I actually have an external CD-reader I use now and then to play my single(!) multichannel audio DTS CD - I haven't found a way to read it through my PC software, but I can hook up a digital cable from the "raw" output of the external CD player, directly to my amplifier, and it will play it, while the player is controlled by the PC (even if it cannot reproduce the sound). ... Are there really that many cables behind my PC, without me worrying about it? Well, blame it on cables being orderly fixed to the wall where appropriate, and proper use of hubs to move the cable mess away from the main box. Actually, the USB usage is more varied at home than at work, even though the total count may be higher at work. I've never been even close to the USB limit of 128 units on a single hub (or rather: tree), though, neither at work nor at home. We did have some issues at work with the optical fiber USB units; the firmware in those switches were limited to 13 units (and remember that the hubs also count as a unit), so running ten Bluetooth slaves and a master left no room for other USB functions. For new setups, we have different solution without that limitation.

Marc Clifton

Holy cow. That's all of stuff. Sounds like you're doing a lot interesting things! Marc

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Marc Clifton

Nish Nishant wrote:

Would it be as fast as an internal SSD?

The laptop comes with a couple USB 3 ports, which is what it's plugged into. I haven't done any speed tests, but it hums along (well, given that it's silent, it doesn't really hum) quite nicely. Marc

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Marc Clifton

Brisingr Aerowing wrote:

None.

Ah, you're ports are virgin! Marc

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Nish Nishant

Thanks Marc.

Regards, Nish

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Marc Clifton

dandy72 wrote:

Plugable UD-3000 USB

Ooh, I'm going to have to take a look at that. Marc

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Eytukan

On what layer you are writing code for? Driver ? CEN-XFS type or Application level?

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I have two on front-panel and four on back-panel on my desktop (no laptop for myself - it is for my wife)... Occasionally I connect my phone to charge it via the computer (when I want it to be close to me while working)... All my keyboard/mouse/printer are wireless... No credit cards to read... The speakers are powered from the wall... No external drives... However - this week I started to work on an Arduino based project and it takes an USB port to work on it...

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Clumpco

I think that I can come close.... 1. Mouse dongle 2. Keyboard dongle (yeah I know about unifying, but...) 3. FiiO DAC 4. Dymo Labelmaker 5. FitBit dongle 6. External SATA drive bay 7. 1TB 2"1/2 drive 8. E-cig charger 9. Another E-cig 10. Multi-card SD/CF reader That's all folks!

Smith

Your machine would look like a large USB hub.

:beer:

Lost User

I'm surprised you don't consider yourself safe enough to put on the 'safe list' I keep hearing about.

Chris Maunder

I just don't trust myself. It's those shifty eyes. I'm sure I'm hiding something.

cheers Chris Maunder

Brad Stiles

At work:

Keyboard
Mouse
Third monitor.
I also charge my Mio Link when it needs it.

At home:

Keyboard
Mouse
Three external hard drives, one of which acts as a NAS.
Printer
Bluetooth dongle
Camera (one of those that sits atop the monitor)
UPS
A remote control for Windows Media Player
Xbox 360 controller
Joystick/throttle or steering wheel, depending on the game
Pedals (yes, I have two sets or those as well, one for driving and one for flying)
iPhone/iPad

9 and up are not plugged in all the time, though one of (9 or (10 and 11)) is generally plugged in at any given time.

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Dan Neely

I'm pretty sure that very few internal SSDs use e(xternal)SATA. As for USB3, it still uses 8/10bit encoding; meaning that 5 gigabits/sec translates to 500MB/sec max. Good SATA SSDs will send data faster than that in sequential reads. USB 3.1's speed doubling could push an external drive over the top; but only if it's a PCIe model internally.

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Nish Nishant

Hey Vunic, what's going on? Haven't seen you in a while. :-)

Regards, Nish

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