Well I now have 14 x 5Gbit ports which takes the pressure off the PC ports with unplugging and plugging.

More accurately, you have a number of ports sharing 5GGbit between them.

In reply to a post by Banger:

Well I now have 14 x 5Gbit ports which takes the pressure off the PC ports with unplugging and plugging.

Saves the A type connectors, hopefully your high bandwidth devices aren’t used at the same time. E.g. if you copy from disk A to disk B they are on different host controller ports (on your PC/motherboard).

The actual connector durability depends on which make the manufacturer purchased.

they are on different host controller ports (on your PC/motherboard).

They are indeed, one hub on the front ports one on the back ports. One of the back ports has become intermittent so though I would save the rest of the ports with the hubs.

Amazon must have mixed stock. The first hub I got was V5 hardware (no port leds) but the second was a V4 with port leds.

One thing I have noticed doing speedtests on disks Linux is a bit slower than Win 11. eg. Crucial X9 and Crucial X6 portable SSDs are slower than when tested with CrystalDiskMark in Windows. Guess I know which OS to do lots of file transfers!

Edited by Banger (Wed 24-Dec-25 21:43:55)

From a quick look, the x6 is dramless and the x9 isn't so that could be reason.

More testing and the X6 read speed is fast in CachyOS and Windows but I have got the speed higher with the help of Brave AI in Solus. Something to do with mount points in Linux (Solus) although don't explain why both X6 and X9 read at 450MB/s in both Windows and CachyOS. Could be RAM caching.

Solus is quite niche.. and a very niche package manager. It isn’t based on Debian (apt) or the Red Hat (dnf/yum) package managers. Not something I guess runs on any servers. (Something like 95% of all Linux installs are on servers).

Many operating systems will assume any USB devices is at risk of being disconnected without warning, so will not enable write caching to protect your data. If your USB drives stay connected for days/weeks at a time and you always tell the OS before disconnecting, then you can probably configure this.