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Running out of USB ports! Help!
OK, I think that I may be just one more among a billion persons with this same problem since nowadays everything is USB. LoL.
I have seven USB ports on my computer, being 5 in the back and 2 in the front.
All my five back ports are busy (audio interface, mouse, wi-fi dongle and two USB HDDs) leaving me with only the two front ports that doesn't helps too much since I still have two more HDDs, a musical keyboard, laser printer and a LOT of pendrives. To keep unplugging stuff to free up ports is not an option for me.
I bought recently a cheap USB hub that revealed to be a big crap: the only devices that I manage to make work on it are pendrives and the wi-fi dongle, and even so sometimes the wi-fi dongle refuses to work or stop to work after a while. The HDDs just light their leds but aren't even recognized by the system.
I have tried a different cheap USB hub from my wife's notebook but it's the same crap (doesn't afford HDD). Then I suppose that cheap USB hubs won't work for me.
I would like to know if there is any decent USB out there that works or even an extra USB interface that I can add to my computer. My motherboard has two long blue slots and two medium sized cream ones. All of them are free.
Thanks!
:)