On 3/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jim Minihane</b> <<a href="mailto:min02jsm@minihane.tzo.com">min02jsm@minihane.tzo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If it's a quarter of that, it should still be enough. If each Plextor is<br>using 6Mbps, that's only 24 Mbps. WAY under any PCI bus, harddrive I/O,<br>etc. Now I just have to find a couple of cheap used PCs that have USB2.0
<br>ports in them. Otherwise I might as well just get a 4 port USB2.0 card and<br>forget the hub.<br>Experiments, experiments, experiments.</blockquote><div><br>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.
<br><br>-Lawrence<br></div></div><br>