{"id":3902,"date":"2012-05-24T10:44:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2012-05-24T10:44:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:44:27","slug":"usb-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2012\/05\/24\/usb-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"USB Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A while back, I wrote about how I have a lot of USB devices hanging off my computer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, these days… I have even more<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

My current computer has 4 USB ports on the back and 2 on the front, which is pretty typical. (The ports on the front though aren’t very useful for stuff I keep attached permanently; I like to keep my wires in the back & out of sight.)<\/p>\n

I also recently added a USB 3.0 card, giving me another 2 ports on the back, and I have an old 4-port (powered) USB hub plus a 2-port (unpowered) port in my keyboard. This gives me a total of 14 USB ports (some of which are taken up connecting the hubs of course, so really there’s just 12 available).<\/p>\n

And it’s still not enough.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had recently picked up a new 7-port powered USB hub, but it turned out to be rather cheap and died on me (freezing and taking down the entire USB subsystem with it!). So I had to go back to my old 4-port hub… which leaves me a bit pressed for ports to plug in the simply obnoxious amount of USB devices I have connected to my computer.<\/p>\n

And if that wasn’t enough, one of the ports on my old 4-port hub recently died after a power fluctuation, so now it’s a 3-port hub.<\/p>\n

So, I’m on the lookout now for a new hub – a good one this time – that has at least 5 ports (preferably\u00a0more) and is externally powered (a necessity for using USB to charge devices).<\/p>\n

In the meantime though, I figured I’d update my list of USB devices, just for fun.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Dell Multimedia Keyboard (my favorite keyboard, both for its volume knob instead of just buttons, and for the fact that it has a 2 port hub built-in – very handy for where to plug in mice)<\/li>\n
  2. Microsoft Comfort Mouse 3000<\/li>\n
  3. Logitech Trackman Marble (for when carpal tunnel pain forces me to switch mouse hands)<\/li>\n
  4. Printer<\/li>\n
  5. Microsoft LifeCam VX-1000 webcam (for the bunnycam<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  6. Microsoft LifeCam Studio (for Skype)<\/li>\n
  7. Logitech headset (for Skype, audio recording, & other VoIP stuff)<\/li>\n
  8. UPS (battery backup)<\/li>\n
  9. 1 TB external hard drive (for local backup, in addition to my cloud-based backup)<\/li>\n
  10. Microsoft eHome infrared receiver (for using my Windows Media Center remote)<\/li>\n
  11. 8 GB USB flash drive for Windows ReadyBoost<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I think it’s fair to say… I have an obnoxious number of USB devices! And this doesn’t even count the USB gamepad (only sometimes connected) or the USB bluetooth receiver (also only sometimes connected).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A look at the absolutely insane number of USB devices I have hanging off my computer, and the fact that there never seem to be enough ports!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[202],"tags":[23,312],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-computers","tag-usb","entry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-10W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1019,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/01\/08\/usb-madness\/","url_meta":{"origin":3902,"position":0},"title":"USB Madness","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It occurred to me last night, as I hooked up some new gadgets to my computer, that I have... an obnoxious amount of USB peripherals. 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