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October 02, 2012, 03:18:24 PM |
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In preparation for ASICs, what USB hubs do you have/are going to buy? I am currently leaning towards http://www.manhattan-products.com/en-US/products/9583-mondohubThe ports are only 500mA, but I am assuming BFL Jalapenos will have something like dual usb inputs.
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October 02, 2012, 03:37:21 PM |
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Wow 28 ports!! someone has a lot of pre-orders! I will just be getting a 10 port powered USB hub
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October 02, 2012, 04:52:26 PM |
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I think you might run into logistical issues of keeping all the units & power cords that close together even if you have 28 units.
I bought a $7 cheap 10 port powered USB and I'm regretting it. It stops working and loses connection about 1-3 hours after starting...
So I'm looking to spend more like $30 for a decent one.
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October 02, 2012, 05:34:48 PM |
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The problem with USB hubs is there aren't any "good" ones. There are only okay ones. Newegg has 254 of them and none have significant numbers of high ratings. If you want one that probably won't fail too soon, I'd go with basically anything without horrific ratings from: Inland Bytec SIIG Koutech Belkin Hawking US Robotics Kensington TrendNet Sabrent A lot of those companies make some pretty bad ones but they also carry a couple that are pretty nice. Ultra "makes" really bad products but their hubs I've had a lot of luck with too. (they don't make anything, they buy OEM and put their name on it). if I had to buy one right this second, I'd say none of the above and get this beast: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4621333&CatId=392not a bad price either
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October 02, 2012, 07:20:43 PM Last edit: October 02, 2012, 07:38:06 PM by Mobius |
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You need to determine if redundancy is important, 1 large hub = single point of failure, Multiple smaller hubs will spread out the risk and allow some margin of safety. One fails and you can plug into the others. Also make the determination if you will need USB 3.0 ports before buying.
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October 02, 2012, 07:45:19 PM |
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Instead of buying a ton of Jalapenos, why not buy Singles? They presumably won't get their power from the USB anyway, so pretty much any hub should work. You may also want to check out which hubs people are using for Raspberry Pi devices. The Raspberry Pi is extremely picky when it comes to USB, so anything that works with it is pretty well designed. You'd want to go with the ones with the highest power ratings: http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals#Working_USB_HubsI use this one, but it sounds like you want more ports. It's got a pretty good port:power ratio though (2.6 Amps and only 4 ports). It should be good to power two Jalapenos: http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Ultra-Slim-Series-4-Port-F4U040v/dp/B005A0B3FG/Assuming the Jalapeno power requirements are accurate and it operates on 5v, you'll need the following formula for amp output in any USB hub: .9 * (number of Jalapenos) = Amperage output of USB hub. That Mondohub linked to in the OP outputs 4A (or 20 watts), so you'd only be able to run 4 Jalapenos on it, wasting 16 ports. That also assumes the Jalapeno powers itself with two USB plugs.
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Morblias (OP)
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October 02, 2012, 07:49:16 PM |
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Assuming the Jalapeno power requirements are accurate and it operates on 5v, you'll need the following formula for amp output in any USB hub: .9 * (number of Jalapenos) = Amperage output of USB hub. That Mondohub linked to in the OP outputs 4A (or 20 watts), so you'd only be able to run 4 Jalapenos on it, wasting 16 ports. That also assumes the Jalapeno powers itself with two USB plugs.
Wow I did not know this, I am an idiot when it comes to electrical stuff. I just plug it in and hope I don't start a fire. I did one of my single trade-ins for 8 Jalapenos just for the hell of it, so I will need a lot of usb ports for those plus the SCs and bASICs I ordered.
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October 02, 2012, 07:58:30 PM |
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Assuming the Jalapeno power requirements are accurate and it operates on 5v, you'll need the following formula for amp output in any USB hub: .9 * (number of Jalapenos) = Amperage output of USB hub. That Mondohub linked to in the OP outputs 4A (or 20 watts), so you'd only be able to run 4 Jalapenos on it, wasting 16 ports. That also assumes the Jalapeno powers itself with two USB plugs.
Wow I did not know this, I am an idiot when it comes to electrical stuff. I just plug it in and hope I don't start a fire. I did one of my single trade-ins for 8 Jalapenos just for the hell of it, so I will need a lot of usb ports for those plus the SCs and bASICs I ordered. Yeah, given the prices, you'd be better off getting 4 of the Belkin USB hubs I linked to and using those. They're $20 each and power 2 Jalapenos vs $60 each for 4 Jalapenos. I hope you've got 4 open USB ports on your computer (or multiple computers)
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October 02, 2012, 08:27:03 PM |
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I asked this in this thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=114428.0And at BFL forum I posted some findings: Heres a site with a great deal,never bought from them before,so use at your own risk.I will 13 port,5 volt-4 amp $35 http://www.synchrotech.com/product-u...b_13-port.html Another 4 amp w/4 ports model $42.99 http://www.synchrotech.com/product-u...d-4-HU430.html Each Jalapeno is 900ma,so 4 Jallies per hub,with 300ma left over. But.....the ports I think only support 500ma each,so you'll need the dual USB cable too for each Jally http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812270226 https://forums.butterflylabs.com/showthread.php/13-Lots-of-Jalapenos-on-one-PCI'm still unsure,is USB 2.0 500ma & USB 3.0 1000ma?? Or do some 2.0 handle 1000ma??
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October 02, 2012, 08:43:57 PM |
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No standard USB 2 port coming from a computer supports 1A. There may be special ports or features on some motherboards that support 1A for quickly charging devices, but I wouldn't count on it.
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Good find Heres the full specs: Model No.:RHB-500 Color:Black Type:USB Standards:USB 2.0/1.1 Ports :1 x Upstream, 10 x Downstream Transfer Rate :1.5/12/480Mbps Power Input :Self-power mode / BUS-power mode Power adapter: DC 5V 4A Hub Dimension:155 x 69 x 28 mm / 6.1" x 2.7" x 1.1" (not including power adapter) Weight:Unit Weight (not including adapter): 145g / 0.32 Lbs Power Adapter: 195g / 0.43 Lbs Warranty:1 Year http://www.rosewill.com/products/1543/ProductDetail_Specifications.htm
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October 03, 2012, 07:19:34 AM |
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A lot of newer boards come with high powered usb devices that are designed to support charging from a USB port and these should be sufficient for running the Jallies. In addition a lot of board manufacturers such as gigabbyte, msi, etc also have released software for high charging. The only exception I see is if you intend to run a large amount of the Jallies on a single machine, but if that was the case then getting a single would probably be a better idea
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October 03, 2012, 08:37:58 AM |
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I bought Exsys 1177, the Usb Hub has 7 Ports and a 4A Power Supply. I will install the Hub inside a 4HE 19", and the Hub has Support for power Supply by floppy connector, so no Adapter is neccessaryto use the ATX power Supply.
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October 03, 2012, 01:14:42 PM |
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No standard USB 2 port coming from a computer supports 1A. There may be special ports or features on some motherboards that support 1A for quickly charging devices, but I wouldn't count on it.
+1 and also most pairs of USB ports right next to each other on the front of the case or inline USB ports on the motherboard itself share an electrical circuit so they're 0.5A total between them, each being able to pull the entire 0.5 though. So if Jalapenos need 1A via USB, A LOT of people are going to find that their system won't run them.
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October 03, 2012, 06:54:28 PM |
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October 03, 2012, 08:38:36 PM |
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I emailed Gigabyte about my mobo: Do the USB ports (either 2.0 or 3.0) allow 500 milliamp or 1000 milliamp as a max current draw? If yes, which ones ? My motherboard model: GA-990FXA-UD3(rev. 1.0) I'll be using them for several Bitcoin mining devices consuming 4.5 watts (900 milliamp each).
From Gigabyte: Dear Customer, All are the same and they can accept up to 1A *Whether to support 3X USB power design, it may vary by models* We are unable to verify your device as only iphone, ipad been verified for charging. WooHoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I still may get the dual USB cables,just to be sure I don't fry my mobo.
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October 04, 2012, 01:16:04 AM |
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btw almost any Asus or MSI motherboard made recently has a phone charging smart 3x power feature and every one I've ever seen recently supports 1 amp power. I guarantee no laptop on the planet under $800 does though.
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October 04, 2012, 07:03:28 AM |
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well the small asics like the bfl jalepeno are usb powered
the bfl single sc and the bASIC have there own barrel connector for power
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October 04, 2012, 01:04:47 PM Last edit: October 10, 2012, 04:41:48 AM by Desolator |
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well the small asics like the bfl jalepeno are usb powered
I think BFL has already verified many times that that's not true. It's completely idiotic since USB power fluxuates and is limited and varies from computer to computer. It's the worst way to run a high end cbhip imagineable and 2.5W could never run a Jalapeno.
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October 04, 2012, 03:17:39 PM |
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well the small asics like the bfl jalepeno are usb powered
the bfl single sc and the bASIC have there own barrel connector for power
Thanks for the info. What is the best way to power via a barrel connector? Will each BFL Single/bASIC need a separate AC adapter?
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October 10, 2012, 04:25:00 AM |
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October 10, 2012, 05:03:05 AM |
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btw in case you missed my other post, if you think you don't need a powered USB hub for the Jalapenos, you do. Standard board USB power isn't good enough for like 4 different reasons. You could maybe get away with a PCI-E controller to help voltage dips, interference, unknown power limitations, etc but why not just go external?
For the singles, probably not unless you're actually out of them, as I would expect them to draw almost nothing over the USB power since it's 2.5W max and the singles are like 60 or 80W or whatever.
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October 10, 2012, 11:32:19 AM |
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I've got a mondohub - works great. manual buttons are nice (they control if that port gets external power or not) - and having LEDs attached to each port switch is great for identifying if you've got a power delivery problem.
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October 10, 2012, 08:06:15 PM |
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You will soon find out why I stopped buying cheap electronics from China. Good luck
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October 10, 2012, 11:38:40 PM |
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Dont ever use a usb 3 for usb 2 devices. usb 3 still has issues due to cheap chipsets.
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October 10, 2012, 11:49:01 PM |
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I don't understand this attraction to usb, at least not for more than a single unit. If one intends to accumulate a number of these stand alone hashing devices, there are much better interfaces to use. Firewire comes to mind immediately. And before anyone complains about not having firewire on their PC, if you can invest gobs of money into a growing ASIC farm, you can buy a $40 firewire card off Ebay.
USB has it's place, certainly. But I would think that it wouldn't take very many of these devices to overwelm even a 480 Mb/s serial bus, considering the relatively high overhead penalty that a spider's web of powered hubs is going to introduce into such a plan.
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October 10, 2012, 11:54:05 PM |
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And how do you explain firewires incapability to hub?
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October 11, 2012, 12:01:08 AM Last edit: October 11, 2012, 03:48:56 AM by Unacceptable |
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I have several of these Belkin hubs,they are powered up to 2.5 amps @ 5 volts. Belkin F5U101,4 ports,5 volt @ 2.5 amps. So in theory I could run at least 2 Jalapeno's on each hub. But yeah,USB supplying that much power for a device is not a good decision.I would prefer a wallwort myself or get some cables from Cablez I shouldn't be needing them,I'm going to upgrade my order to a 30gh unit instead.Maybe I'll get a Jalapeno or two later just for the novelty
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October 11, 2012, 12:11:23 AM |
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What about just to communicate with devices and not for power purposes?
Do people think a decent laptop with a quad CPU can handle like 25 of the 54 or 60 GH units ?
Can you plug in like 2-3 hubs to one laptop ?
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October 11, 2012, 12:12:53 AM |
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Of course
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October 11, 2012, 12:40:30 AM |
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What about just to communicate with devices and not for power purposes?
Do people think a decent laptop with a quad CPU can handle like 25 of the 54 or 60 GH units ?
Can you plug in like 2-3 hubs to one laptop ?
With cgminer yes
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October 11, 2012, 04:14:15 AM |
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And how do you explain firewires incapability to hub?
Firewire is a daisy chain serial bus, it doesn't need to hub. The second unit plugs into the second firewire port on the first unit. Also, firewire uses a much higher power bus voltage, of 16 volts nominal. It could handle a small asic on it's own without powered hubs. Furthermore, you can now get firewire switched hubs, so that complaint is moot.
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October 11, 2012, 04:25:40 AM |
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And you don't think daisychained firewire gets "overwhelmed"?
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October 11, 2012, 05:17:16 AM |
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You will soon find out why I stopped buying cheap electronics from China. Good luck I've gotten LOTS of cheap electronics from China, and I've never had a problem. It's not that hard to implement USB (all of the USB you're using right now was almost certainly made in China). I'll be very surprised if these hubs don't work. If they don't, $10 loss. No biggie . What did you get that didn't work?
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October 11, 2012, 08:27:09 AM |
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What did you get that didn't work?
I am curious as well. On topic: I like to buy USB hubs that have proved themselves by reading user reviews.
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October 11, 2012, 09:20:52 AM |
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Its cool,but thats not a powered hub,it won't work for the Jalapeno's,only for the SC Singles 30 or 60 gh models.
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October 11, 2012, 01:29:56 PM |
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I've gotten LOTS of cheap electronics from China, and I've never had a problem. It's not that hard to implement USB (all of the USB you're using right now was almost certainly made in China). I'll be very surprised if these hubs don't work. If they don't, $10 loss. No biggie . What did you get that didn't work? My biggest complaint was the cctv security camera I bought from China. It took FOREVER to figure out how to work it due to the software not working on Windows 7. Seems like every software of things sold on ebay from China only support windows xp. Then finding drivers for it to work took hours of looking and managed to download 2 viruses along the way (thank god it was in a virtual machine). I guess you should be fine though since USB doesn't require trying to find software haha.
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October 11, 2012, 01:49:18 PM |
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Kind of on topic: I think I'm going to buy a Jalapeno just to mod it to fit in a 5.25 bay for the novelty of it.
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I've gotten LOTS of cheap electronics from China, and I've never had a problem. It's not that hard to implement USB (all of the USB you're using right now was almost certainly made in China). I'll be very surprised if these hubs don't work. If they don't, $10 loss. No biggie . What did you get that didn't work? My biggest complaint was the cctv security camera I bought from China. It took FOREVER to figure out how to work it due to the software not working on Windows 7. Seems like every software of things sold on ebay from China only support windows xp. Then finding drivers for it to work took hours of looking and managed to download 2 viruses along the way (thank god it was in a virtual machine). I guess you should be fine though since USB doesn't require trying to find software haha. I once bought a cheap off-brand MP3 player off ebay that was shipped directly from China. It never worked, and I think it might have simply been a theatre prop.
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October 11, 2012, 05:19:49 PM |
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And you don't think daisychained firewire gets "overwhelmed"?
Sure, it can. My point is that USB is great for many things; such as thumbdrives, keyboards & mice. But streaming across a USB bus (particularly across a hub) is a hell of a bottleneck. Firewire was literally designed for streaming of data. Again, don't limit yourselves simply to the interfaces that you are used to. USB would be fine for a single unit, but not for a large number of them. They will each need their own stream from the host, and the overhead for streaming on USB is huge. Each unit will be competing with all others for access. This would also be true for firewire after a point, of course; but overhead for setting up and maintaining a dedicated data stream on firewire is much lower than USB. USB's greatest advantage is that it's everywhere; and it's everywhere because it was the first market ready hot-pluggable serial bus standard. USB is VHS, Firewire is BetaMax.
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"The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
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October 11, 2012, 08:47:38 PM |
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Its cool,but thats not a powered hub,it won't work for the Jalapeno's,only for the SC Singles 30 or 60 gh models. It is a powered hub - says right in the description. You need to put a 5v power supply into it, and I don't think one is included. I'm doing SCs and bASICs, so it won't matter.
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October 11, 2012, 08:52:39 PM |
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I've gotten LOTS of cheap electronics from China, and I've never had a problem. It's not that hard to implement USB (all of the USB you're using right now was almost certainly made in China). I'll be very surprised if these hubs don't work. If they don't, $10 loss. No biggie . What did you get that didn't work? My biggest complaint was the cctv security camera I bought from China. It took FOREVER to figure out how to work it due to the software not working on Windows 7. Seems like every software of things sold on ebay from China only support windows xp. Then finding drivers for it to work took hours of looking and managed to download 2 viruses along the way (thank god it was in a virtual machine). I guess you should be fine though since USB doesn't require trying to find software haha. Ah yeah things like that from china can be a huge pain. As long as it's a dumb piece of equipment, it's usually somewhat safe, but as soon as drivers are required, good luck.
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And you don't think daisychained firewire gets "overwhelmed"?
Sure, it can. My point is that USB is great for many things; such as thumbdrives, keyboards & mice. But streaming across a USB bus (particularly across a hub) is a hell of a bottleneck. Firewire was literally designed for streaming of data. Again, don't limit yourselves simply to the interfaces that you are used to. USB would be fine for a single unit, but not for a large number of them. They will each need their own stream from the host, and the overhead for streaming on USB is huge. Each unit will be competing with all others for access. This would also be true for firewire after a point, of course; but overhead for setting up and maintaining a dedicated data stream on firewire is much lower than USB. USB's greatest advantage is that it's everywhere; and it's everywhere because it was the first market ready hot-pluggable serial bus standard. USB is VHS, Firewire is BetaMax. If my ASICs need more than 480Mbps (even combined) to calculate hashes, I'll be extremely surprised.
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October 11, 2012, 08:54:29 PM |
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What did you get that didn't work?
I am curious as well. On topic: I like to buy USB hubs that have proved themselves by reading user reviews. I'll try to remember to leave a review on here when these arrive.
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Its cool,but thats not a powered hub,it won't work for the Jalapeno's,only for the SC Singles 30 or 60 gh models. It is a powered hub - says right in the description. You need to put a 5v power supply into it, and I don't think one is included. I'm doing SCs and bASICs, so it won't matter. Ah,I just looked at the pic & saw no wallwort.So you need to buy it seperately They say 1 amp,so you can run only 1 Jalapeno.Oh well..............
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October 11, 2012, 10:05:23 PM |
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Belkin makes some very solid powered hubs
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October 11, 2012, 10:19:40 PM |
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Belkin makes some very solid powered hubs
I can second this. Belkins are good.
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October 11, 2012, 10:20:42 PM |
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I still have my 10 year old dlink.
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October 11, 2012, 10:27:39 PM |
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The problem with USB hubs is there aren't any "good" ones. There are only okay ones. Newegg has 254 of them and none have significant numbers of high ratings. If you want one that probably won't fail too soon, I'd go with basically anything without horrific ratings from: Inland Bytec SIIG Koutech Belkin Hawking US Robotics Kensington TrendNet Sabrent A lot of those companies make some pretty bad ones but they also carry a couple that are pretty nice. Ultra "makes" really bad products but their hubs I've had a lot of luck with too. (they don't make anything, they buy OEM and put their name on it). if I had to buy one right this second, I'd say none of the above and get this beast: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4621333&CatId=392not a bad price either I have a D-Link DUB-H7 for 4 or 5 years now I think. I have never had any problems with it. The only problem is that it does not contain any USB 3.0 ports.
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October 12, 2012, 12:13:47 AM |
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Of course it uses data, but im pretty sure hubs dont care about negotiated power
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October 12, 2012, 04:09:56 AM |
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Its cool,but thats not a powered hub,it won't work for the Jalapeno's,only for the SC Singles 30 or 60 gh models. It is a powered hub - says right in the description. You need to put a 5v power supply into it, and I don't think one is included. I'm doing SCs and bASICs, so it won't matter. Ah,I just looked at the pic & saw no wallwort.So you need to buy it seperately They say 1 amp,so you can run only 1 Jalapeno.Oh well.............. Hmm I wonder if you have a PSU molex 5v and ground if you could just wire it directly into the DC barrel on there. It would definitely supply more than enough power for some jalepenos.
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October 12, 2012, 04:15:52 AM |
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the pcb traces may melt
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October 12, 2012, 07:29:06 AM |
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I have a D-Link DUB-H7 for 4 or 5 years now I think. I have never had any problems with it. The only problem is that it does not contain any USB 3.0 ports.
+1 for D-Links and Belkins. I recommend them without hesitation.
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October 12, 2012, 08:20:25 AM |
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Question:
Imagine you can have a heavy duty 5A 10-port USB hub. Imagine such product exists. Would you buy it? How much would you spend for it?
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October 12, 2012, 08:25:34 AM |
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Question:
Imagine you can have a heavy duty 5A 10-port USB hub. Imagine such product exists. Would you buy it? How much would you spend for it?
Nevermind. I think I already found a viable commercial product, without the need for me to go through the hassle of building one. http://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Port-Speed-Power-Adapter/dp/B003Z4G3I6
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October 12, 2012, 04:48:52 PM |
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so does anyone know if there's an upper limit to the current a hub can support? I ask because I'm curious what would stop me from buying a 10 port hub with an external power connection and providing my own 5v 10a power which should be ~ 1a per port
it's doable and would not be hard at all, but I was wondering if anyone had experience putting more than a few amps through a USB hub.
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October 12, 2012, 04:57:24 PM |
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so does anyone know if there's an upper limit to the current a hub can support? I ask because I'm curious what would stop me from buying a 10 port hub with an external power connection and providing my own 5v 10a power which should be ~ 1a per port
it's doable and would not be hard at all, but I was wondering if anyone had experience putting more than a few amps through a USB hub.
Putting more amps into something then they were designed to handle usually will fry them. I've never tried this with USB hubs, but I have experience frying amps in my car lol.
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October 12, 2012, 05:04:45 PM |
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good point, I also forgot that it's usb 3.0 that has ~900mA per port not 2.0
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October 12, 2012, 07:30:10 PM |
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Its cool,but thats not a powered hub,it won't work for the Jalapeno's,only for the SC Singles 30 or 60 gh models. It is a powered hub - says right in the description. You need to put a 5v power supply into it, and I don't think one is included. I'm doing SCs and bASICs, so it won't matter. Ah,I just looked at the pic & saw no wallwort.So you need to buy it seperately They say 1 amp,so you can run only 1 Jalapeno.Oh well.............. Hmm I wonder if you have a PSU molex 5v and ground if you could just wire it directly into the DC barrel on there. It would definitely supply more than enough power for some jalepenos. I believe that would work.
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October 13, 2012, 12:02:47 AM |
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That looks like the Rosewill rebranded (or vice versa)
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October 13, 2012, 12:12:15 AM |
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If a powered USB hub is not necessary, is it of any advantage (in terms of reliability, etc). I n other words, assuming, as has been widely reported, that ASICs are powered via barrel connectors, would it be any advantage, still to connect them through powered USB hubs, or would this be needlessly redundant?
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October 13, 2012, 02:40:04 AM |
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If a powered USB hub is not necessary, is it of any advantage (in terms of reliability, etc). I n other words, assuming, as has been widely reported, that ASICs are powered via barrel connectors, would it be any advantage, still to connect them through powered USB hubs, or would this be needlessly redundant?
For a Single or other device that gets its power elsewhere (and presumably doesn't need any significant power going over USB), there should be no need or advantage to buying a powered hub. However, it would definitely be an absolute necessity for Jalapenos.
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October 13, 2012, 04:10:40 AM |
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an unpowered hub would not run 1 Jalapeno in almost all cases. The voltage loss, limitations, and the fact that most single USB ports can't get to 4.5W, it's not going to work for most people.
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October 13, 2012, 04:57:13 AM |
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If a powered USB hub is not necessary, is it of any advantage (in terms of reliability, etc). I n other words, assuming, as has been widely reported, that ASICs are powered via barrel connectors, would it be any advantage, still to connect them through powered USB hubs, or would this be needlessly redundant?
The only need for a powered USB hub is for the Jalapeno's.All other ASIC's don't need it,a standard hub will do
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October 13, 2012, 05:12:02 AM |
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because the wires inside it will melt
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October 13, 2012, 06:34:50 AM |
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because the wires inside it will melt Assuming you know what you're doing to provide power from the power supply; the main point is you can use power injectors.
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October 18, 2012, 02:23:22 AM |
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I almost bought that hub when it was on sale for $25.
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October 30, 2012, 09:27:59 AM |
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Thanks for posting that! It really got my attention, now to play the game: if the price is right .
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October 30, 2012, 02:25:04 PM |
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guys, it's only 4 amps = 8 ports at full 500mA USB2 specs.
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October 30, 2012, 07:20:27 PM |
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guys, it's only 4 amps = 8 ports at full 500mA USB2 specs. The details show: - Up to 500 mA power, all ports
- Input: 100 - 240 V, 50/60 Hz; 1.6A, maximum
So I think it will be fine.
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October 30, 2012, 09:11:50 PM |
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+1 for D-Links and Belkins. I recommend them without hesitation.
Well that answers one question... if you actually worked for comcast you wouldn't like either of those manufacturers.
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October 31, 2012, 01:26:36 PM |
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+1 for D-Links and Belkins. I recommend them without hesitation.
Well that answers one question... if you actually worked for comcast you wouldn't like either of those manufacturers. That's true ...
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November 01, 2012, 12:39:25 AM |
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The manufacturers fucked up bad. They should have made the connection ethernet or firewire Most Ethernet chips can support upto 64 simultaneous connections, USB can only handle ONE connection at a time, no matter how many devices are connected. (you could even STREAM the requirements out of the ethernet/firewire controller into the slaves using a single connection) So once you start slapping on those GH/s units, the USB chain is going to be spending more time in negotiation/connection/disconnection that it is just not funny.
The only real solution is to DUMP the hubs and load the computer up with USB cards, then at-least you can aim for 1:1 rather than some fucked up binary tree dangling off a single USB host.
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November 01, 2012, 09:55:42 PM |
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guys, it's only 4 amps = 8 ports at full 500mA USB2 specs. The details show: - Up to 500 mA power, all ports
- Input: 100 - 240 V, 50/60 Hz; 1.6A, maximum
So I think it will be fine. No it won't. Re-read the specs. Power adapter part.
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November 01, 2012, 11:35:50 PM |
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guys, it's only 4 amps = 8 ports at full 500mA USB2 specs. The details show: - Up to 500 mA power, all ports
- Input: 100 - 240 V, 50/60 Hz; 1.6A, maximum
So I think it will be fine. No it won't. Re-read the specs. Power adapter part. Guys you are just talking past each other. Whether or not it can support full USB specs or not, 500mAmps per port is still only 4 amps for the entire hub. I doubt 4 amps is enough to support 8 asic miners working full tilt, even if the power adapter was capable of putting out more than 1.6 amps.
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Related to quality and durability, by my own experience, US Robotics and Kensington seems to manufacture quality.. I've had those brand for different peripheral/components, those have never failed.. except for a USRobotic router that had cofee in, it just lose the capacity to save config.. I gave it to a friend who do not matter about config, still running, 10 years old !
I really appreciate all your inputs, lots of interesting info/links in this thread ! Thanks to all !
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The manufacturers fucked up bad. They should have made the connection ethernet or firewire Most Ethernet chips can support upto 64 simultaneous connections, USB can only handle ONE connection at a time, no matter how many devices are connected. (you could even STREAM the requirements out of the ethernet/firewire controller into the slaves using a single connection) So once you start slapping on those GH/s units, the USB chain is going to be spending more time in negotiation/connection/disconnection that it is just not funny.
The only real solution is to DUMP the hubs and load the computer up with USB cards, then at-least you can aim for 1:1 rather than some fucked up binary tree dangling off a single USB host.
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+1 (I have often thought about this) so I wonder how that 49 port psu powered hub/board slows down 49 333's communicating? thats a lot of info squeezed into the smaller pipe.
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Why are people still farting around with USB ASICs? Am I missing something here?
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