[mythtv-users] MythTV and USB hubs

[Jim Minihane]

-----Original Message-----
From: "LP Tilly" <mail.list.lawrence at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:06:45 -0500
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and USB hubs

> On 3/16/06, Jim Minihane <min02jsm at minihane.tzo.com> wrote:
> >
> > If it's a quarter of that, it should still be enough. If each Plextor
> is
> > using 6Mbps, that's only 24 Mbps. WAY under any PCI bus, harddrive
> I/O,
> > etc. Now I just have to find a couple of cheap used PCs that have
> USB2.0
> > ports in them. Otherwise I might as well just get a 4 port USB2.0
> card and
> > forget the hub.
> > Experiments, experiments, experiments.
> 
> 
> Reading this I was actually going to ask if you had considered just
> getting
> a 4-port card.  I thought the overall speed and reliability of the card
> would be better than a hub (I've had two hubs degrade or die on me over
> the
> last couple years ).  The only two major advantages I see to the hub
> are (1)
> not taking up a slot ( a valuable resource in many MythTV boxes based
> on
> feedback here ) and (2) getting your USB ports up and available
> someplace
> more convienent than the back of your machine.   A card solution would
> probably cost less than a hub as well.
> 
> -Lawrence
> 

I did a little math. It's cheaper to get 4 M402Us, a USB2 card, and a
cheaper computer, than it is to get the 402s and a larger machine that has
native USB2 onboard. As it stands I just ordered 2 M402Us and will be
testing them on a P3-933 tower taht has a USB2 card. My "real" system will
be similar.