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USB 3.0 Ext Drive with Wireless

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wrugoin

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Hello All,

I had intended to purchase an external USB 3.0 hard drive for my main PC (gaming rig) in my home office. The home office is only networked wirelessly. No network cables are used. My main PC and some devices use the 5GHz band, however some (Wife's Laptop, iPhones, wireless printer) are on the 2.4GHz band.

When talking to a rep at my local hardware store (Fry's Electronics) he told me that a USB 3.0 drive may interfere with any 2.4GHz wireless devices in the room. I didn't purchase the drive because of that comment. A little bit of googling when I got home has confirmed the rep was correct and this may be an issue for me.

My question is does anyone here at the [H] have personal experience with this issue?
Has USB 3.0 messed with your wireless?
Have you found solutions?
Based on the setup I listed above, would the drive cause issues with the laptop, iPhone and printer?

Any help and personal experiences would be appreciated. Thanks!
 
It appears that the interferrance is only on deivces that are close to the USB3 device.

So a wireless device connected to the same computer as the the USB3 device.

A solution seems to be shielding the USB3 cables and device.
 
I guess I'd need to find how close is close. My intention was to put the USB 3.0 external drive on my desk, right next to the computer. It would sit about 3 feet away from a wireless printer and 6 feet from my wife's laptop on the other desk.

I wonder if the interference is constant while the drive has power, or only during file / data transfers to and from the drive.
 
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