[colug-432] USB hub you'd trust attached to your server?

[Jeff Frontz]

Check out http://www.coolgear.com/productdetails1.cfm?sku=USBG-4U2ML
or http://www.usbgear.com/USB-Hub.html for others by the same manufacturer.

I hesitate to say that I "trust" this hub, but it's industrial-grade
(rack-mountable).  We've used it in embedded applications.  We have
some suspicions about it (with regard to how it handles in-rush
current vis-a-vis overload shutdown as well as some other corner
cases), but at least you have a [sometimes responsive] seemingly
US-based support person that you can contact.

Jeff



On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Andy Graybeal
<andy.graybeal at casanueva.com> wrote:
> Generally speaking, I wouldn't trust a usb hub attached to my server.. but if there was one, maybe you guys have experience with it.  Newegg brings up a Rosewill and a Dlink... but the reviews say they are both not so great.  I was hoping maybe there was something more robust that happens to not be at Newegg.  Plus it sucks I'm thinking about slapping consumer device to a server and expecting it to work forever, maybe there is a Super Awesome USB HUB for server-type use.   Or I could find a nice server box with lots of USB ports; I probably wouldn't buy a new server box just for this.. but it's something to consider.
>
> My application.. which is in the imaginary "I wonder" phase... is running these ports as passthrough to kvm/libvirt machines running POS app.  The ports would run some serial printers and touchscreens.
>
> I got 12 devices,  5 touchscreens and 7 printers.  I'd like the freedom in the future to change this pretty easily, but for now I don't see this changing soon.
>
> Maybe you guys can help me out.
>
> Rosewill: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182057
> DLink: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817111402
>
> Andy
>
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