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    One USB slot - not good?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by micka, Oct 17, 2008.

  1. micka

    micka Notebook Guru

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    When I have my notebook 'docked' at home I simply have a USB hub that I connect and then my mouse, keyboard, thumb drive, and external drive are all instantly connected.

    I use this USB slot every time - is this not a good idea?

    Thanks.
     
    micka, Oct 17, 2008
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    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    Its ok, just your through put will be limited using all that at once.
     
    nizzy1115, Oct 17, 2008
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    Through put?
     
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    You have a total bandwidth per usb header (usually this is per group of 2 ports on a laptop). That is 480 Mbps total. If you jam all your devices on one port they all need to share this. But if you put your external hard drive and usb thumb drive on different ones they will all get 480 Mbps total rather than sharing it.
     
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  5. micka

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    Ahhh ok. Thanks for that :)
     
    micka, Oct 17, 2008
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