Logic board with 20 USB3 ports

Re:Logic board with 20 USB3 ports by morio on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:56AM (#24540256)

I develop hardware. At any given time I have 3 programmers, various charger cables, usb to serial cables, logic analyzers, a mouse, a spacemouse (for CAD), flash drives, 2 x label printer (strip and shipping) and various other stuff plugged into my 12 port hub. And I still have to switch them out due to lack of ports. And hubs don't play well with high speed USB3 based logic analyzers.

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Re:Logic board with 20 USB3 ports by sitkack on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:55AM (#24540252)

CIA agents with 16 FIDO keys.

This machine is clearly designed to straddle the DMZ in an infosec army. And/or Goldman Sachs, which is the same thing.

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Re:Logic board with 20 USB3 ports by numpad0 on Monday September 21, 2020 @02:02AM (#24540286)

Surveillance or “self driving” demo gear on multiple webcams?

Phone farms? 20 random Android phones as physical emulators. More with hubs.

Testing USB flash drives? Flash drive factories use standard Windows boxes to test new drives and pre-load with bloatwares.

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Re:Logic board with 20 USB3 ports by jmnicolas on Monday September 21, 2020 @02:20AM (#24540400)

> Flash drive factories use standard Windows boxes to test new drives and pre-load with bloatwares.

You mean they do this manually by plugging each drive? I would have thought the "bloatware" was already written on flash.

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Re:Logic board with 20 USB3 ports by bayindirh on Monday September 21, 2020 @03:22AM (#24540718)

In a manner, yes. Flash programming and controller tuning is done on fully assembled USB drives.

I've re-programmed a handful of flash drives of my own to mark damaged cells and in some case restore a flash storage map to return the drive to life.

Transcend has a one-click utility which does everything automagically to restore malfunctioning drives to best possible condition.

Flash controllers are much more intelligent than they look. They're almost black-magic like.

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Re:Logic board with 20 USB3 ports by dutchmartin on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:55AM (#24540253)

I could see this used for livestreams where you have a lot of cameras to connect. The 3 independent video outputs also make this great for a multi monitor setup.

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Re:Logic board with 20 USB3 ports by rektide on Monday September 21, 2020 @07:31PM (#24549496)

https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO with a bunch of USB3 docking stations: run an entire coffee-shop or class-room off one computer.

With active USB3 cables you can attach 20x 4K terminals, up to 10m away from the computer, easily.

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Re:Logic board with 20 USB3 ports by adamhearn on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:44AM (#24540200)

USB flash drives are very reliable and should be used in raid 0 with this logic board for maximum raw size and speed. /s

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Re:Logic board with 20 USB3 ports by Jaruzel on Monday September 21, 2020 @03:35AM (#24540790)

I'd be interested to see all 20 fully loaded with HDDs/SSDs that support UASP, and see how well it holds up as a highly redundant Storage Server.

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Re:Logic board with 20 USB3 ports by Ballas on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:48AM (#24540223)

I have multiple mice and keyboards plugged in at once. This will do nicely.

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Re:Logic board with 20 USB3 ports by lostlogin on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:49AM (#24540228)

What do you use multiple of each for?

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Re:Logic board with 20 USB3 ports by t-writescode on Monday September 21, 2020 @02:02AM (#24540293)

You can turn whole keyboards into hotkey tricks. It's mentioned in this LTT video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZEoss4XIgc

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Re:Logic board with 20 USB3 ports by kichik on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:50AM (#24540234)

All weird hardware recently seems to be for cryptominig. Probably for using a lot of USB miners.

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Re:Logic board with 20 USB3 ports by octoberfranklin on Monday September 21, 2020 @03:08AM (#24540643)

Maybe back in 2014...

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Re:Logic board with 20 USB3 ports by kichik on Monday September 21, 2020 @02:53PM (#24547025)

I guess Intel 10th gen does exclude it from being cryptomining overstock...

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