7 May
2022
7 May
'22
7:20 p.m.
On Saturday 07 May 2022 11:59:20 E. Liddell wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2022 17:53:57 -0700
William Morder via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
Simplest thing for me is just to get a new cooling pad, then I will have a new
power cord for that item. I have found that cooling pads definitely extend
the life of a laptop.
Then I can use my powered USB hub as intended, with power cord.
But anyway, I don't normally have them all attached, mounted and running at
the same time. It is just that I have generally had them mounted as I was
tranferring my files from older hard drives taken from my desktop computer.
Now that pretty much everything is transferred and consolidated, I don't need
to keep them running.
Bill
So, the culprit: I used an old USB extension cord
to attach the 4-port
USB hub to the laptop. The USB extension cord is rather old, and I didn't
really give it a thought; but it's probably 1.0, whereas the laptop has
3.0 ports, the hub is 3.0, and the hard drives themselves are probably
3.0, too, I believe.
I hope that I can find some newer USB extension cords. I wonder, do they
even make them any more?
Sure—they're all over Amazon. Although if you're going to be abusing the
ports that way, you might want to consider a powered hub, if you can stand
having to deal with Yet Another Power Cord.
E. Liddell