Simple question - What is the USB limit to a PC?

[Fletcher]

I got curious after reading a document for my assignments.

What is the limit to the amount of USB drives on a computer? What if you had large USB expansion ports and hubs?

If there are more than 25 ish, how would Windows deal with no more alphabet to use?

Apparently, nobody in computing terms, has tried hooking up ~100 USB drives to a single machine...

Thoughts?

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[LA-384]

Why ask here, while google has the answer? Took me 10 seconds to find out that it isn't possible to have more than 26 drives visible. Took me another 5 minutes to understand that NTFS drives can be set in a way, that they are shown as a folder. But since usb-drives are usually FAT(32), this is irrelevant.

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[Varyag]

You can have more then 26 I think. They start to use aa then ab ac ect ect. At least that is how it used to work.

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[Boss]

You can have 127 of them things. Dunno why you'd need that many, but you can.

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[HoopyFrood]

You can have more than 127, but at that point only in massive raid arrays where the storage system is no longer controlled exclusively by windows and instead by the raid card itself. But then I suppose technically windows doesn't even see the separate drives f your using raid

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[Boss]

You can have more than 127, but at that point only in massive raid arrays where the storage system is no longer controlled exclusively by windows and instead by the raid card itself. But then I suppose technically windows doesn't even see the separate drives f your using raid

127 is the limit for Windows itself. How you'd manage to RAID more than that is beyond me, but I suppose that it is possible, given a bit of work.

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[Tommeh]

127 is the limit for Windows itself. How you'd manage to RAID more than that is beyond me, but I suppose that it is possible, given a bit of work.

This is 100% correct.I actually learned about USB standards a month ago in school and I remember exactly that it was 127.

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[DW-FED]

depending on the USB version, the 1.0 works at 100 mb and the 2.0 at 150 to 175 mb an it also depend how much resources you have to spare for the connection