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USB3 drive speeds using a USB3 hub
UPDATE: Thanks everyone who commented. I plugged both hard drives into the hub and the speeds for copy/move between the two went from approx 30MB/s to approx 100MB/s. I am very pleased.
Windows 10 Pro 21H2
Acer Aspire E5-551G
I have the following:
1xUSB2 port
1xUSB3 port
2xUSB3 5TB portable drives
Currently the setup is:
drive1 in USB3
drive2 in USB2
I know that USB2 is slower than USB3 so, obviously, drive1 is faster than drive2. If I plug a (non-powered) USB3 hub into the USB3 port and connect both drives to that, how will that affect overall speed for both devices? Am I right in thinking the total speed will be split between the two, as in drive1 will be slower but drive2 will be faster? And if so, by how much?
For example:
If USB2 is approx 480MB and USB3 is approx 5GB, would both in a USB3 hub get approx half of the available speed each, making one drive half as slow but the other one approx 5 times faster? I hope that makes sense.
Last edited by kiwichick; 20 Mar 2023 at 21:58.