My understanding is that pluging a USB 3 hub into a USB 2 port effectively reduces it to USB 2, correct?
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Yeah. Basically you're routing a highway onto a surface street. The USB2 port can only do 60 megabytes per second (in a perfect world, more like 40 normally). USB3 can go 10x faster, but as soon as you try to squeeze it through USB2 it gets choked off.This still makes a damn good 10 port USB2 hub, and if you ever upgrade to USB3 you can transfer it.
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USB 3 is backward compatible with USB 2. You just won't see the speed benefit of USB 3
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I'm not 100% tech savvy, but I think the major difference would be speed, if I'm not mistaken. 3.0 is the latest standard, isn't it? I think the transfer speed makes the difference, in which case I don't mind this one because I don't have any 3.0 USB items....I'm not much help in this matter, I just needed extra ports because I've downsized from a desktop to a laptop temporarily, so when I saw this I just grabbed it. It works quite well for what it's worth. I'm sorry if it this doesn't help.
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I've been using mine with a USB hub since I got it and haven't had any problems at all.
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Of course. USB 2.0 will never match 3.0 speed. When the drive worked read on 3 was at least 4 times faster
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I am not sure I understand your question...but this device works best with USB 3.0.
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To run in USB 3.0 mode, the hub must be connected to a USB 3.0 port in the computer. If it is connected to a USB 2.0 port, the speed will be the slower USB 2.0 speed.
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Two ports are for hi density such ad iPads and two are low density like iPhones. The two higher plugs charger faster. Not sure about USB 2 or 3 since these are for charging and not data transfer.
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you certainly can use both USB 3.0 and USB 2.0; the only difference is transfer speed.
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Yes for you to get the USB 3 speed out of the 2 USB 3 ports, as it has already been mentioned maybe you could find a cable to convert 3 to 2 but you won't get the 3 speed, which is nice.
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From my personal experience, I found using the adapter on USB 2.0 port actually give me better and stable performance over USB 3.0 port. At first, I plug it into my USB 3.0 port, I got very poor performance and very unstable connection but when I switch it to USB 2.0 port, it was working fine for me.
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It works with USB 2.0. I didn't notice a difference between using USB 3.0 and 2.0.
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Yes, & I agree with Dave; as a general rule I have found most 3.0 drives to be faster on a 2.0 port than a 2.0 drive. And in my experience, this is also one of the better ones.
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Yes, that will work. The 2nd USB connector is just for power. That's because some older USB ports will detect a power overload if the drive tries to pull all its power from a single port. To workaround that they the Y cable can be used to pull power from 2 ports. Non-anceint USB ports, like 2.0 or 3.0 or from a powered hub will probably work fine if you just plug in the one end of the cable. Try it with just one. If it works, you're good. If it doesn't, the computer will tell you "power overload detected" and the drive won't work, but no damage will be done.
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Mine is set up so that the thunderbolt from my Mac goes to the thunderbolt hub. I then have a USB three coming out of the thunderbolt hub a USB three hub that I have. I then have many drives hooked into the USB three hub. It works seemlessly. Does your PC have a thunderbolt port in it? If it does, there is no problem going from thunderbolt hub to USB three hub in then out to peripherals from the USB three hub.
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I don't know. It was supposed to be used with a USB hub, and the hub didn't work well.
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All I know is this. It is non-powered hub. Works for multiple flash drives *as many as three have worked at the same time for me*, but if you try external hard drives you will run into difficulty because there is insufficient power from a single USB port to run multiple devices that need more power. t