On Thu, 2021-07-22 at 16:25 +0100, Tom Yates wrote:
> i note in passing this is another great use for USB hubs. recently > when i > started having serious video camera problems, and having diagnosed a > USB > socket on its way out, i ended up replacing a £20 hub with another > £20 > hub, instead of having to try, as you say, to repair a multi-hundred- > euro > motherboard. > > use a cheap hub for all your day-to-day connection and disconnection > needs, and save wear and tear on your fragile motherboard connectors. > ...and before the hub use a short USB-3 extension to keep your laptop from being torn apart whenever you trip over the USB cable. But use a hub - no matter what the vendor of your audio hardware say. They all want their precious device to be directly connected - to avoid support tickets by people using shitty hubs. So I can't agree to your "cheap" argument. Not that I recommend expensive hubs in particular but they should at least be based on a reliable chipset, bring a solid PSU and no tacky connectors.
