What's the performance when. let's say, 4 pendrives are connected in? Do you experience any troubles moving data between them or to the computer?
1308220
So far I have not had any problems. Also, I haven't noticed any slowness among the drives,
1308221
USB is a lot like having a phone installed in every room of your house. You can make a call from any room but not more than one call at a time and if two people in the home want to talk at the same time, they have to take turns. USB is like that. You can use 4 devices plugged in, but only one can talk to the pc at one time. Two devices just rapidly switch back and forth and appear to be working at the same time.
1308222
No, no problem moving data. Just semi-slow because it isn't anything fancy but, it isn't super slow to me either. What's cool is that I can plug my hard drives into it too. Things that didn't work I've learned are my drawing tablet because it requires a wacom bamboo drive etc. can not peform pressure with this. but! Two time when I have had all of them on and runnin something, and plugged in a fourth one! it cut off. I had to ya know restart the computer. So it could refresh its self. So you gotta be a bit easy when plugging in a bunch of stuff. Once it is in there everything work fine. I love mine, blue lights are nice but, can get annoying at night. I love that u can click them on and off it's convenient. I use it everyday! :)
1308223
No. Not at all. I use it at work and I'm using all 4 ports with no problems.
1308224
Haven't tried that, but you will be limited by the USB port throughput on your computer.
1308225
no, there are power issues though and we are currently searching for a new on after only 3 months of having this device.
1308226
I have 4 externals hooked up - 1 Tb hard drive, mouse, postage printer, and postage scale. I have noticed no problems moving data to the external HDD nor any other problems.
1819658
I have two, one for the laptop and one for the desktop. I've had both for about 8 months, and not a single problem. These things can take more of a beating than regular HDDs (not like you should be beating them:( )but alas, as with all technology, some do fail. I'm good so far though! Not packing them full of files helps.
1993988
I have 4 x 6TB drives, 4 x 5TB drives driven by this card. There is no issue. I have no clue what post from t4d is about. Don't believe such non-sense. Enterprise networking is my bread and butter.
2061834
I run 4 of them right now with one slot empty in between them and it will run without a fan.However, these seem to dip to 1.4 GHash/s after awhile (even with a fan). Could be my USB hub. Seems fine if restarted.
2129242
for my use case it works faster that WD. I transfer files over LAN. Wifi will be slow.
1009538
In short, no. USB as a protocol supports far more devices through a single port than you can physically put on this hub. And, because of how the data is packaged and transmitted, it all moves at the same speed, regardless of the number of sources. For example, I have 3 devices (a wireless mouse, a printer and an external HardDrive) running through mine, and they all perform perfectly.
239434
5400 is slow. It also allows the drive to produce significantly less heat. Pack several drives into a small space and heat becomes an issue. I don't need my NAS to be fast. I do need it to be reliable. Cooking the drive in the middle caused me trouble in the past.
602223
I have not experienced any issues with the documents and mp3s that I have stored on the device. Unfortunately, I can not address your inquiry as it pertains to photo images. If your PC is currently using the USB 2.0 ports, this drive should be backwards compatible (being a 3.0 device) with it. However, the data transfer rates will be restricted by the speed of the 2.0 port.
977418
I have an old 120 GB laptop drive hooked up w USB, works fine. I see in the reviews, people have hooked up 3 and 4 terabyte drives.
817425
If you are using an older machine that does not have USB 3.0 support the slower transfer rate can cause an issues such as this and there is no fix. If you are using a USB 3.0 port make sure your motherboard drivers and bois settings are up to date. After trying all this if the drive continues not to perform to your expectations I would exchange it for a different one.
1690764
Yes, I do it all the time. Also I copy photo files between three hard drives. No problems.
1555558
I wrote a non-techie review of my 64g and 128g. I compared writing 37.3 gig of data - the San Disk disk took 5:55 minutes for the 64g and 5:50 for the 128g. The other 2 (not cheapies) took between 25 and 36 minites. All were done with the same source data on the same computer using the same USB3 port. They were all USB 3 drives. Not sure what the specs are, SanDisk has them on their website, but I can tell you it is faster than any of the others out there except maybe the Lexar and the price on those is much higher.
1953195
I have 4 external hard drives hooked up to my wndr3700v2 via a USB hub and the performance is very good. There seems to be a problem and about once a week I lose access to one of the hard drives, but rebooting the router fixes that. Hopefully that problem will get fixed in a future firmware release. *** Update *** I had Netgear replace my router with a new one to address some buggy behavior. The new one has the same issues. This router is just a little rough around a few edges. Regarging the USB HDD performance, I am quite happy with it with the exception that is seems to lose the connection to one of the hard drives on Sundays (SERIOUSLY). *** Update 2 *** I discovered that there is a sleep feature in my Seagate external USB hard drives. I disabled that using the Seagate/Iomega utility and my NAS performance has been great with no disconnects. Currently I have 3 USB hard drives connected via a powered USB hub and am happy with it.
1555872
You should ALWAYS have redundancy, especially with these kinds of drives. Yeah, they are cheap, but your data isn't. Buy two and use one as a backup. I learned the hard way myself.
1556102
My flash drives crashed every time I tried to store multiple files on them. My only recourse was to reformat the drive. I did not have a problem with the speed of storing a file or opening it.
992059
I guess that depends on the resources that you would be plugging into your usb's? Primarily I use them to monitor all of my Corsair hardware. I use a Asus Impact but I run into resource issues because I have two 4 drive USB hard drive towers. But I've not daisy-chain two.
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I have been running mine with a Western Digital WD30EFRX NAS 3tb just fine for a few months now. Runs quick and hasn't presented any strange playback issues or lag, it has actually decreased load times but probably due to NAS spec.Though, weird behavior with file transfer, when I copied over the old 1tb drive in my Micca to the new 3tb, it somehow ballooned my files by about 200gb. Hidden files show nothing and quite a few folders read different in size between the two drives. Not sure if files are being decompressed on the copy over or something, no ZIPs just ghost data that has taken decent bite out of the drive, I don't think there is a 200gb reserve or system partition on a 3tb... I have been running mine with a Western Digital WD30EFRX NAS 3tb just fine for a few months now. Runs quick and hasn't presented any strange playback issues or lag, it has actually decreased load times but probably due to NAS spec.Though, weird behavior with file transfer, when I copied over the old 1tb drive in my Micca to the new 3tb, it somehow ballooned my files by about 200gb. Hidden files show nothing and quite a few folders read different in size between the two drives. Not sure if files are being decompressed on the copy over or something, no ZIPs just ghost data that... » Read More I have been running mine with a Western Digital WD30EFRX NAS 3tb just fine for a few months now. Runs quick and hasn't presented any strange playback issues or lag, it has actually decreased load times but probably due to NAS spec.Though, weird behavior with file transfer, when I copied over the old 1tb drive in my Micca to the new 3tb, it somehow ballooned my files by about 200gb. Hidden files show nothing and quite a few folders read different in size between the two drives. Not sure if files are being decompressed on the copy over or something, no ZIPs just ghost data that has taken decent bite out of the drive, I don't think there is a 200gb reserve or system partition on a 3tb... « Show Less