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Best powered USB hub for my 6 or 7 USB 3.0 HDD media library drives with either an M2 Mac mini or a new M4 mini? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 weeks ago by Reverendender@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

My main advice would be to get multiple hubs, because your 6 drives would share the same bandwidth. Also hubs with more than 4 ports are in fact multiple hubs chained together because most chips in hubs handle 4 devices at most. So it would be better to spread your drives on as much USB ports as possible.

[–] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

USB 3.0 speed is around 50x faster than the read/write speed of the HDDs, so it's not an issue.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

OK, what would you suggest?