I've recently asked myself if you have a large external USB hub (with, for example, 4 USB inputs and a USB C output then for the laptop), if you could connect to these eg 4 conventional external hard drives and these over that one cable from the hub would still be detected on the laptop as 4 hard drives.
Should work, but it can be assumed that the access speed can change drastically
That's fine. You can even connect a lot more than 4 pieces. The USB hub should be active (that is, have its own power supply), otherwise there are problems.
And if you use Windows, this will eventually drive out the drive letters…
As far as I know the usb description still 128 usb devices are possible
dabe you have to take care that enough power is available.
So the hubs have corresponding extra power.
then it certainly works. And because you pin it up nicely one after the other, the hard drive letter is assigned one after the other, and if you stick the feast plate one by one, it always gets the same letter again.
Have to laugh now, because I imagine how 20 external hard drives flashing in front of him and stand around…
If the plates are supplied with extra power that is. Remember that depending on the plate up to 10W be removed (about 2A at 5V).
That depends on the technology with which you connect. There's no fundamentally limit. USB can connect 127 devices per controller.
if you could connect to these eg 4 conventional external hard drives and these would still be recognized on the laptop as a 4 hard drives via the one cable from the hub.
As long as the power supply is correct, it works. If the disks do not each have their own power supply you will probably need a hub with a correspondingly strong power supply. Of course you still have to ask if it is a USB 2 or USB 3 hub. Only when the disks, the hub, the cables and the connector on the computer are USB 3, the USB 3 mode is used. In addition, only the whole bus can be USB 3, i. When plugging into a USB 3 hub a USB 2 mouse all devices at the hub are powered by USB 2.
