[PLUG] Accessing individual external hard drives in the same enclosure

Keith Lofstrom keithl at kl-ic.com
Fri Sep 29 22:24:55 UTC 2017


On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 03:03:52PM -0700, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
> Two USB devices are twice as fast only if you can connect them to two
> separate root hubs in the PC.
> 
> I'd check this before being too optimistic:
> a) do you have 2 root hubs - unlikely in a laptop without a dock or TB port.
> b) Did you connect the devices to separate root hub ports physically?
> 
> Unless you have done a) and b) it is just by chance.

Good point - but you should do (a) and (b) anyway.  I
use docks to reduce connector wear on laptops in fixed
locations, which is where the external drives are.

I presume by "TB" you mean Thunderbolt, not Terabyte or
Tuberculosis.  Ellis Island was a TB port a century ago.

Keith

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