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Re:Chaining USB drives by dangero on Thursday November 24, 2011 @11:32PM (#3276221)
There's also the problem of power. I doubt these devices could be usb spec compliant since what is essentially happening here is an endless chain of bus powered usb hubs.

It is pretty though.

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Re:Chaining USB drives by miahi on Friday November 25, 2011 @02:55AM (#3276525)
It's not even the first time it was "dreamed" by some designer, with no technical consideration. You cannot actually do that in a standard way. Dan has a nice article on this: http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2010/03/23/for-suitably-small-v...
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Re:Chaining USB drives by rbanffy on Friday November 25, 2011 @05:45AM (#3276787)
Unless you want to attach a hard drive to the end of the line, power should be no big problem. I can't imagine the power requirements of a USB hub being that big.
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