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Loren Pechtel
Does anyone make a good, reliable USB 3.0 hub that goes in a drive
bay? Everything I find has reviews that stink.
bay? Everything I find has reviews that stink.
Loren said:Does anyone make a good, reliable USB 3.0 hub that goes in a drive
bay? Everything I find has reviews that stink.
The Hub design, can only be as good as the chip inside it.
This article, mentions TI makes a USB3 hub chip, as well as VIA.
But the article is from 2010, so hopefully there are more sources
by now.
http://semiaccurate.com/2010/09/29/ti-shows-four-usb3-chips/
You'd need to examine the bad designs, and see if they all used
the same chip or not. (There aren't a lot of 5.25" bay designs
on Newegg, and, no good pictures either.)
USB3 uses super-high-speed electrical signals, and if
the designer makes a cheap non-compliant PCB, that
could cause problems as well. A slight non-compliance,
could cause more data retransmissions (that is, if
the protocol supports it).
When you install USB3 in the computer itself (built-in USB3
on motherboard chipset, separate NEC chip, separate plug-in card),
if you have an older OS, there is a driver package to install.
On a much later OS, the driver package may be built-in.
If your hub has problems, the problems might actually
trace back to the driver package used for the
computer end of the problem. If the drivers for the
motherboard or add-in card aren't good, maybe you'll
get a "dong loop" when connecting the hub. If so,
it might not be the actual hub design, which is bad.
It could be the original third-party drivers you added.
Loren said:I haven't actually bought a 3.0 hub. It's just I found myself wanting
3.0 ports on the front panel and I've got a space a hub could go in--I
would have thought that was a perfect combination. It's just that
when I read the reviews I find the hardware is junk--things like early
deaths. That's not a bad driver.
I even found one external hub that committed the old sin of feeding
voltage back along the link to the computer. Some machines won't POST
with such a misbehaving hub plugged in and in my experience the port
they are plugged into tends to fail in time.
Does anyone make a good, reliable USB 3.0 hub that goes in a drive
bay? Everything I find has reviews that stink.
Robin said:I have a dual-port USB card that fits into a pci slot. Very fast and
works perfectly.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/TeckNet-Int...Y9FK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354810688&sr=8-1
(Amazon UK)
I have a dual-port USB card that fits into a pci slot. Very fast and
works perfectly.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/TeckNet-Int...Y9FK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354810688&sr=8-1
(Amazon UK)
On the same theme, I notice they make chips now, that go from
PCI Express x1 slot to 4 USB3 ports. This is the NEC one, but
there is one other brand as well.
http://www.renesas.com/products/soc/usb_assp/product/upd720201/index.jsp
As a result, they can do cards like this. This fits in a PCI
Express x1 slot, and gives two external ports (on the back
of the computer), and via a tray mount extension, gives two
more ports on the front of the computer. I was not able
to find a card that consisted of only internal ports (so
you could do four on the front of the computer).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1JM0FD7215
The only place I could find an extension cable for the
motherboard USB3 (pin) header, was something like this. Which
might be another ugly way to place a connector somewhere.
The faceplate unscrews, but you may have to do some
machining to mount it somewhere. I saw another one with
a slightly longer cable. The cable on this might be too
short to be useful.
http://us.estore.asus.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=4699
Paul
Loren said:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815150170
PCI slot, one port on the back, 4 in a drive bay. Read the reviews,
though.
Yes, but that one, is a controller chip plus a hub chip, like this.
If you have a phobia about "hub-chip", this isn't for you.
Loren said:I don't have a phobia about a hub chip, I just want one that's built
well.
At least that doesn't have stinky reviews. On the other hand it seems
to have none at all anywhere.
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