Logic board with 20 USB3 ports

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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