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So, what's the use case here?

adamhearn 6y ago
USB flash drives are very reliable and should be used in raid 0 with this logic board for maximum raw size and speed. /s
Ballas 6y ago
I have multiple mice and keyboards plugged in at once. This will do nicely.
- lostlogin 6y ago
  What do you use multiple of each for?
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  - t-writescode 6y ago
    You can turn whole keyboards into hotkey tricks. It's mentioned in this LTT video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZEoss4XIgc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZEoss4XIgc
kichik 6y ago
All weird hardware recently seems to be for cryptominig. Probably for using a lot of USB miners.
- octoberfranklin 6y ago
  Maybe back in 2014...
  - kichik 6y ago
    I guess Intel 10th gen does exclude it from being cryptomining overstock...
sitkack 6y ago
CIA agents with 16 FIDO keys. This machine is clearly designed to straddle the DMZ in an infosec army. And/or Goldman Sachs, which is the same thing.
dutchmartin 6y ago
I could see this used for livestreams where you have a lot of cameras to connect. The 3 independent video outputs also make this great for a multi monitor setup.
morio 6y ago
I develop hardware. At any given time I have 3 programmers, various charger cables, usb to serial cables, logic analyzers, a mouse, a spacemouse (for CAD), flash drives, 2 x label printer (strip and shipping) and various other stuff plugged into my 12 port hub. And I still have to switch them out due to lack of ports. And hubs don't play well with high speed USB3 based logic analyzers.
numpad0 6y ago
Surveillance or “self driving” demo gear on multiple webcams? Phone farms? 20 random Android phones as physical emulators. More with hubs. Testing USB flash drives? Flash drive factories use standard Windows boxes to test new drives and pre-load with bloatwares.
- jmnicolas 6y ago
  > Flash drive factories use standard Windows boxes to test new drives and pre-load with bloatwares. You mean they do this manually by plugging each drive? I would have thought the "bloatware" was already written on flash.
  - bayindirh 6y ago
    In a manner, yes. Flash programming and controller tuning is done on fully assembled USB drives. I've re-programmed a handful of flash drives of my own to mark damaged cells and in some case restore a flash storage map to return the drive to life. Transcend has a one-click utility which does everything automagically to restore malfunctioning drives to best possible condition. Flash controllers are much more intelligent than they look. They're almost black-magic like.
Jaruzel 6y ago
I'd be interested to see all 20 fully loaded with HDDs/SSDs that support UASP, and see how well it holds up as a highly redundant Storage Server.
rektide 6y ago
https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO with a bunch of USB3 docking stations: run an entire coffee-shop or class-room off one computer. With active USB3 cables you can attach 20x 4K terminals, up to 10m away from the computer, easily.

USB flash drives are very reliable and should be used in raid 0 with this logic board for maximum raw size and speed. /s

Ballas 6y ago

I have multiple mice and keyboards plugged in at once. This will do nicely.

lostlogin 6y ago
What do you use multiple of each for?
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- t-writescode 6y ago
  You can turn whole keyboards into hotkey tricks. It's mentioned in this LTT video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZEoss4XIgc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZEoss4XIgc

kichik 6y ago

All weird hardware recently seems to be for cryptominig. Probably for using a lot of USB miners.

octoberfranklin 6y ago
Maybe back in 2014...
- kichik 6y ago
  I guess Intel 10th gen does exclude it from being cryptomining overstock...

sitkack 6y ago

CIA agents with 16 FIDO keys. This machine is clearly designed to straddle the DMZ in an infosec army. And/or Goldman Sachs, which is the same thing.

dutchmartin 6y ago

I could see this used for livestreams where you have a lot of cameras to connect. The 3 independent video outputs also make this great for a multi monitor setup.

morio 6y ago

I develop hardware. At any given time I have 3 programmers, various charger cables, usb to serial cables, logic analyzers, a mouse, a spacemouse (for CAD), flash drives, 2 x label printer (strip and shipping) and various other stuff plugged into my 12 port hub. And I still have to switch them out due to lack of ports. And hubs don't play well with high speed USB3 based logic analyzers.

numpad0 6y ago

Surveillance or “self driving” demo gear on multiple webcams? Phone farms? 20 random Android phones as physical emulators. More with hubs. Testing USB flash drives? Flash drive factories use standard Windows boxes to test new drives and pre-load with bloatwares.

jmnicolas 6y ago
> Flash drive factories use standard Windows boxes to test new drives and pre-load with bloatwares. You mean they do this manually by plugging each drive? I would have thought the "bloatware" was already written on flash.
- bayindirh 6y ago
  In a manner, yes. Flash programming and controller tuning is done on fully assembled USB drives. I've re-programmed a handful of flash drives of my own to mark damaged cells and in some case restore a flash storage map to return the drive to life. Transcend has a one-click utility which does everything automagically to restore malfunctioning drives to best possible condition. Flash controllers are much more intelligent than they look. They're almost black-magic like.

Jaruzel 6y ago

I'd be interested to see all 20 fully loaded with HDDs/SSDs that support UASP, and see how well it holds up as a highly redundant Storage Server.

rektide 6y ago

https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO with a bunch of USB3 docking stations: run an entire coffee-shop or class-room off one computer. With active USB3 cables you can attach 20x 4K terminals, up to 10m away from the computer, easily.