Questions tagged [usb-3]
USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed) is a USB specification that can transmit data at up to 5 Gbit/s.
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Write speed to USB drops as disk active time increases
I would like to know the correlation between disk active time and disk transfer rate, and what the problem might be.
Using a WD Elements 3TB drive to back up a Surface Book 2 (about 650GB of 1TB drive)...
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Why doesn’t Lenovo Thinkpad Dock Gen 2 40AS work with a Huawei Matebook D14 2020 laptop?
I have an Huawei Matebook D14 2020 (Intel Core i5). In my company office, I can use with the USB-C port the docking station Dell D6000 with mouse, keyboard and external monitors.
I bought a docking ...
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USB 3.0 Ports Not Receiving Any Power After Replacing Motherboard
Product: HP Z820 Base Model Workstation Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-Bit)
Motherboard HP Workstation Z820 V2 Dual CPU LGA2011 DDR3 Motherboard. USB Controller not noted other than that ...
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Linux backup of USB drive using rsync hangs
I have a Western Digital My Book 4TB external USB drive.
If I attempt backup using the tar command
tar cvf - . | ( cd $bkdir ; tar xvpf - )
I have no problem performing the backup.
If I attempt the ...
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How to reach the maximum bandwidth on many USB drives?
I have many (~60 at now) external USB drives which I need to occasionally, but regularly, connect to one Linux workstation because I need to run a sanity check program on data saved on them.
I don't ...
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Is it possible to connect USB 3.0 over a SATA data connection?
This may sound strange, so I'll provide some context. A long time ago, I made a little device that I really liked, but the technology was too immature at the time. It consisted of an ARM single board ...
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USB 3 slow speed: ~8 mb/s
I have a Z390 ASUS Maximus XI Hero with 3.1 USB support and a Toshiba KIOXIA TransMemory U366 USB Flash Drive 32GB USB3.2 Flash advertised with 100 MB/s.
Yet when I copy anything, I end up with this ...
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USB 3.0 to HDMI connector for GPU (displayLink)
I have this monitor: Philips Brilliance 241B7QUPEB/00
I takes video signals either using VGA or USB 3.0 It comes with a USB cable that is USB A to B.
I did not know that it was possible to stream ...
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What are the metal tabs that are coming out of these usb connectors?
For these USB 3 cables - the ones that go from the motherboard 19 pin connector to the front IO of the chassis - I found some online that have these small metal tabs on them.
What are they?
Also many ...
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Confused about USB3.2 specifications and capabilites. Why does my USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20Gbit/s) throttle but USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 (10Gbit/s) does not?
I want to connect 4 Basler industry cameras to my laptop. I therefore bought a USB3.2 Hub, which I connected to my fastest Port USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20Gbit/s). Laptop: ThinkPad P15 Gen 2i (11th Gen Intel(...
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Sabrent 7-port USB powered hub somehow doesn’t have enough power?
System Specs:
i5 13600k
GTX 4080
32GB DDR5 RAM
2TB M.2 NVME
1000w PSU
Windows 11 (updated to latest 23H2 (KB5034204) )
I have bought this Sabrent powered USB hub from Amazon, twice now.
The first ...
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USB Hub with USB-A male input, will it damage my computer?
I bought this hub from temu.com recently and I actually really like it. I can leave it clamped on my desk with all my peripherals plugged in, and then just connect 1 wire when I need them. It doesnt ...
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What is the 40 pin internal USB header used for?
The USB 3.2 Gen 2 header (20 pins) is sometimes refereed to as a Type C header or Type E header, but I can not find any evidence of that being apart of the standard. There is also a 40 pin variant:
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What would cause CrystalDiskMark to show different test results for front USB port compared to rear?
My motherboard is the Asus B450-i and my case front IO USB ports are plugged into the USB 3.1 Gen 1 header on the motherboard using the cable supplied with the case. I'm using Windows 11 as my OS.
On ...
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Windows 10 camera won't go to correct resolution
A while ago, I made a camera based on a the Omnivision OV7251 image sensor, and the Cypress CX3 USB3.0 camera controller. I wrote the firmware myself, and so I know that the camera only supports the ...
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mother board have usb 3 but it is shown and use as a usb 2 device
I have a motherboard zebh61m2. This one do not have usb3 and only usb2 port is present. But I found a 19pin header with label "f_usb_3.0" on the motherboard, so in hope of it support usb3 I ...
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Windows non-bootable repair, Installation USB not working
Overall Problem & Context:
My work laptop broke yesterday with no obvious cause. Symptoms were it would only boot to MSI Click Bios (its an MSI laptop) repeatedly. The OS was Windows 11. I've ...
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Connecting four 2.5" external USB HDDs with a 48 watts powered USB Hub
Need to access four USB HDDs simultaneously while having only one available USB3 Type A port in laptop...
Found a 10 port 48 watts hub "Orico AT2U3-10AB" where I thought of keeping 6 ports ...
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USB 3.0 port not working with my HDD
I have a Seagate 1TB HDD with a USB 3.0 cable. When it's plugged I to the USB 3.0 port on my laptop I cannot wrote files to the hard drive. I can view the files and even copy files from the hard drive ...
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SSD Latency over USB
I've just learned that (internal) SSD latency is in the ballpark of some microseconds (1/1000th a millisecond) and HDD latency is in the range of milliseconds.
I went out and bought a USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 ...
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My USB 3 HUB reigster some USB 3 devices as USB 2.1 but if but the device directly to Motherboard it says 3.0
I have an ASUS crosshair hero x790e motherboard, with AM 5 a 7950x. Latest bios, chipsetdrivers etc...
Latest Win 11.
I have only USB 3 ports on the motherboard. I also have an industrial 10 USB 3 HUB ...
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Corsair GTX USB drive slow loading using USB 3.0
Corsair GTX USB drive slow loading using USB 3.0.
This happens in every system I have. Windows 10 or 11.
I have 3 of these USB drives and they all do the same thing.
In the USB 3.0 port it takes 1-2 ...
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Why does Windows chkdsk take longer to check user data than free space?
I'm currently checking some 2nd hand 2.5" disks connected via a USB-3 disk enclosure. The first check is to copy files onto the disk to fill it. The next is to use chkdsk /r. On a 500GB SATA-3 ...
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SanDisk External SSD Running at Slow Speeds
I recently purchased a new external 1TB SSD from SanDisk (SDSSDE30-1T00-G25). However, I am having an issue with its speed as it is limited to USB-2 speed, which is around 40MB/s.
Here is what I have ...
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Slow Drive Speeds, and getting to the bottom of it
I have a SanDisk Extreme Pro 55AF (2nd gen) which supports USB Gen3.2 2x2, which caps at about 20 GBps.
I found that no matter what cable I use (including the included one), I only get 38 MBps in ...
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Can I still use a UASP enabled SATA-to-USB 3.0 adapter when my laptop doesn't UASP?
I' m looking to buy a SATA-to-USB adapter for an external HDD. On Amazon I came across this adapter from UGREEN (SB 3.0 IDE SATA Hard Drive Adapter for 2.5/3.5 Inch SATA HDD SSD with External DC 12V ...
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Connect USB C / Thunderbolt 4 to USB A (input! for USB 3.0 Hub) using a normal USB C to USB A cable?
I have an old USB (A) 3.0 Hub Aukey CB-H18, which I have been happily using with my late 2013 15" macbook pro.
Now i updated to a new 2023 14" macbook pro m2 and naively thought I can just ...
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USB 3 flash drives disconnect wifi. Any workaround?
I'm on a Dell Precision 7560 running Ubuntu 20.4 installed by Dell. Inserting flash drives that are USB 3 disconnect me from wifi and won't allow me to reconnect while the stick is plugged in. ...
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Back USB3 ports stopped working after adding a new SSD
I've bought new Samsung 870 EVO SSD and connected it today to my PC with SATA cable coming from SSD caching port on motherboard
After that my back usb3 ports stopped working in general (no power ...
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The USB port only recognizes a WD Elements hard drive
On my laptop I have a USB port that only works with a WD hard drive, I tried to connect another device such as a mouse, keyboard, USB memory and nothing, the strange thing is that in the device ...
