I'm looking for a heavy-duty USB hub to allow up to 20 USB hard drives to be mounted and communicate with a Windows 7 operating system. I'm not looking for USB drive replication or creating hidden/readonly partitions, I just want to them to appear in "My Computer". Price is not much of a concern; reliability and quality are a priority.
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Large USB Hub
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monoprice has a 24-port USB2.0 hub for $40. If you were looking for USB3.0, why not eSATA instead?
just curious, but why do you want to mount 20 USB HDDs?
just curious, but why do you want to mount 20 USB HDDs?
My company ships content via USB hard drives all over the world to customers. When drives are returned, they are formatted and prepped for re-use.
A current limitation is the number of USB ports that can be attached to a machine with addon cards. So an idea I was digging into today was getting more of a commerical/enterprise/industrial/whatever USB hub that would be more reliable than daisy-ing some consumer grade USB hubs.