I recently bought a TI Polar and I'll be needing to get a USB hub to manage my other controllers and External Hard Disk. Anyone have any good recommendations for a Hub which can read an external Hard Disk alongside my controllers?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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For what? Desktop? Laptop?
Desktop - I'd go for a PCI card. I run my Virus TI into it's own socket on a PCI USB hub. The fewer things you can have on an individual USB bus the better...TI plus keyboard/mouse works great.
And for external hubs I will always go for a powered option in future...I've had problems with power before, even with powered devices like hard drives. I prefer to give high bandwidth devices their own port and leave lower bandwidth things like games controllers/keyboards/mice on the hub.
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It's for my MacBook Pro. Access' manuals advise against using a hub but at the same time I only have two USB ports on my computer and 3-4 other controllers, keyboard and mouse as well as a External hard disk to keep connected to my computer at varying times.
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Congrats on the Polar Marc! If you find a working solution keep us posted. I know I've got several ext USB hard-drives, Virus Snow, Cubase dongle, keyb+mouse, several midi controllers.... I just keep swapping them around on my iMac but it's a nightmare.
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M4rc: Are you using a PC/MCIA Card, like any of these: http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&source=hp&q=pcmcia+to+usb+2.0+adapter&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=K7Z-S7GyKMmUtgfMiaixDw&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CCIQzAMwAA?
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It will give you like 4 extra USB2 ports and it's like using an expansion card on a tower.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Virulent: Cheers Mate! I can't wait until it arrives.
I actually got a recommendation over on KVR for this hub Belkin:
http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=158910
Lenny: Never thought of it actually, you got any experience using one?
Posted 1 year ago # -
does the polar not also offer a Firewire Port? Firewire you can cascade pretty easily as device chain without a hub
Posted 1 year ago # -
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offlineCowardly Doghow funny you bring this up, i've got the same problem.
laptop only came with three ports. not enough for your expert knob twiddler.
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Jan: The TI Polar's never had a firewire port...would be nice if it did.
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I have used these cards on every laptop that I have ever owned, both mac and PC. They are invaluable, as they are a direct link, rather than a hub. Highly recommended.
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What about us suckers using iMacs? No solutions for us? D:
@M4RC that USB hub looks a bit ghetto. The description doesn't make it sound good for serious devices:
"Now you can enjoy fast access for temporary device connections such as USB thumb drives, media readers, and for USB lights, fans, and other accessories. "Plugging a USB hard drive (1TB or so) or a Virus TI into that sounds pretty unstable...
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ive had major problems with using the virus with a hub, my macbook only has two usb ports and I find incredibly painful to swap between them.. I have the virus plugged directly into one and a hub with my cubase dongle / mouse / thumb drive, but the hub cant seem to support the dongle / mouse / drive so be careful which one you end up buying etc..
im holding out for a new mac pro hopefully early next month, then Ill never have to deal with that again.
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