121
Why do (desktop) PC have so few USB ports ?
(sh.itjust.works)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2024
121 points (85.0% liked)
No Stupid Questions
35870 readers
1856 users here now
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.
Credits
Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!
The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Speakers > Why USB instead of optical/aux?
SSD, HDD, Memory card reader > Do you use all of them every day?
Headset + microphone > Why not combine/do you use both every day?
And I mean, you already have a hub, worst case if it's full just get a second one or one with more slots...
Speakers - It's both. They're RGB.
Storage - Yep. Everyday. HDD is media, SSD is games, memory card reader for my microSD for lemmy posts.
Headset + microphone - Yes I do use them everyday and no they cannot be combined. The microphone is studio quality. The headset has good audio but no headset on this earth has microphone quality comparable to a stand alone recording microphone.
You have games on an external SSD? That seems odd to me.
I don't know why. Works perfectly fine
Because there's no reason not to want them on an internal drive but there's good reasons not to want them on an external drive 🤷
Faster transfer speed and lower CPU usage are the main points but reliability too as you're adding one more interface in the way.
Calm your tits captain know it all. He said it works perfectly fine for him.
They said they don't know why it seems odd and I explained why. I'm not the one who mentions that USB stuff accumulates quickly while using hardware in a suboptimal way... They could have at least two free ports just by opening their computer case and moving their drives inside...
.....you keep your games on an external drive?
Yes. And like I've said elsewhere, there is literally no problem with it.
I mean it's a bit more expensive, leads to some slightly slower initial load times, and causes some pop in on some games, but sure. There's no problem with it. For whatever reason you'd do it for.
I needed the extra space regardless so the price wasn't a factor to be specific to this, slightly lower must refer to like 1-2 seconds because it takes a max of 3-4 to load any game and I have no idea what pop in is but I haven't noticed any problems in performance.
I mean you should have had several open slots to install an internal drive if you needed more space, but pop in is where as you're moving through a world, things like trees or rocks or creatures etc don't appear from as far away as they should. It get pretty noticeable on games like No Man's Sky and Subnautica if the game isn't installed on a fast hard drive that can quickly send its data. Even the fastest drive they make won't totally eliminate the problem on NMS. Just lessens it.
Modmic + headphones plugged in a USB soundcard (sound blaster g3 in this case) is my go to, but I'm no singer so I don't see the use for a studio quality microphone in my case...
As for the rest, if I was to use an SSD for games I would want it connected to the motherboard directly instead of through USB 🤔
Anyway, you do you 🤷
Nor am I
It's an expansion for the games. I've also had zero problems with it being through USB.