Interesting, I had my sight set on the Pluggable one on Amazon before reading your e-mail :-) Seven ports is probably overkill but the price and reviews are good. The main reason for the hub is primarily for laptops with USB 3 ports (they usually only have two). I run Linux on a USB 3 stick so that doesn't leave much room for a target and source disk each connected via USB 3. I suppose a plus to seven ports is that I can queue up multiple imaging jobs and let it percolate. Thanks for the suggestions- I'll research a little more however the Pluggable one looks like it will fit the bill. -- Jeremy MountainJohnson Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Jeremy MountainJohnson wrote: > > Any suggestions (general experience, benchmarks, etc) are greatly >> appreciated, >> > > I haven't used a hub, but I was happily surprised at how fast the USB 3 > was with my Seagate 3TB external drive. This is not systematic > benchmarking, but ... The first time I tried it, I measured how quickly it > copied a file from the external drive to my laptop's internal hard drive. > The file was 2.9 GB and it copied it in 17 seconds. A file that size was > taking about 2 minutes by USB 2. Now I want to add USB 3 to my other > machines, so I am also interested in the hubs. > > Mike > > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130130/4c6bbce4/attachment.html>