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Using an external hard drive with your laptop

Peeti-V 9:01 PM - 28 September, 2004
I heard that there may be problems with this if the your hard drive and serato scratch box is on the same USB bus. Any ideas? Also if your computer has multiple USB inputs does that mean they are on the same bus or no? Thanks.
Peeti-V 9:23 PM - 28 September, 2004
I just did a search and found some info on this-sorry new to the board-any update on the subject though?
radish 9:33 PM - 28 September, 2004
I think the general idea is you want them to be on seperate busses. SSL takes up most of the bandwidth of a single bus, so the HDD will not get very good performance.
Peeti-V 10:15 PM - 28 September, 2004
Alright so Josh once said:

"In windows the device manager will show you devices called USB hostcontrollers the amount of these listed will indicate how many busses you have (unless the somewhat unreliable "found new hardware wizard" malfuntioned)."

This is what I have. I think I may have two USB hostcontrollers.

Intel(R) 82801CA/CAM USB Universal Host Controller-2482
Intel(R) 82801CA/CAM USB Universal Host Controller-2484
USB Root Hub
USB Root Hub

Anybody knows if I do have to USB Host Controllers or not.
radish 10:24 PM - 28 September, 2004
Yes you do.
Serato
Josh 11:30 PM - 28 September, 2004
let us know how you get on Peeti-V
Peeti-V 3:05 AM - 29 September, 2004
but basically, if everything is up and working, there should be no difference in a firewire connection vs. a USB besides that fact that you may have to use an external power supply for the USB harddrive enclosure?
Lord Kaseem 3:12 AM - 29 September, 2004
I got usb 2.o and I have no problem.
Serato, Forum Moderator
Sam 10:30 AM - 29 September, 2004
same here
echey 11:35 AM - 29 September, 2004
Lord Kaseem:
Quote:
I got usb 2.o and I have no problem.

Me too and no problem.
Serato
Josh 11:05 PM - 29 September, 2004
I think it goes without saying that not all USB controllers are created equal. It's a shame that these kinds of specs aren't easily found when shopping for consumer level laptops...
Zion-Prayz 11:48 PM - 29 September, 2004
USB 2.0 and no probs
namron 3:31 PM - 2 October, 2004
short question,
could it be a problem using ssl on a fat32 partition with an external hd on which is formated in ntfs?

thx
Serato
Josh 4:28 PM - 2 October, 2004
I wouldn't think so...