You may have an external hard drive or two, a flash drive, a couple input devices, and a USB NERF Dart launcher, but when you really look at it all, it isn’t that over the top — is it? The manufacturers (Thanko) of the 80-port USB board — yes 80-port — seem to think there is plenty more in life we could cram into a USB port.
Before you get too excited, it’s worth highlighting one major flaw — you can’t transfer data between any two of the 80-ports. They’re sole use is for charging USB powered gadgets. Bummer doesn’t begin to describe how disappointed I am. Before I read that little spoiler, I was dreaming up images of dual 80-port USB hubs mounted to the wall and stuffed to the gills with flash drives, turning the boards into a new, ultra modern, extra small server farm of sorts.
Now that I see it’s lacking any real usefulness, the $208.68 price seems a lot less like a steal and more of a robbery. Looks like I’m going to have to keep on searching…
Geek4U > Thanko
- December 29, 2009 2:25 pm
If a man were measured by the number of USB ports he had, any man with the “Super USB 24-Port Hub” from USB Fever would easily be labeled a god. While I consider myself a gadget geek, computer guru, and electronic collector, I don’t come anywhere close to needing even half of the 24-port hub’s maximum allotment. Along the same line, I don’t know anyone who would have any need for such a high number of ports.
The only logical way I can imagine someone filling up those digital holes is by creating their own damn sudo server farm with external drives all connected via USB with a few wireless peripherals and USB hairbrush/teeth whitener/flash drive combo device thrown in for good measure.
At $70 it is outside the realm (for most of us) of “impulse buy” so some thought is needed before picking one up. Is it on your list? If so, please share with us what in God’s green earth you actually need 24 USB ports simultaneously available for? I’m ever so curious…
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CrunchGear > Red Ferret
Wondering what’s been going on with The Pirate Bay the last couple of weeks? A big move, that’s what. The official new home of TPB servers is CyberBunker. CyberBunker just so happens to be contained within some random nuclear bunker deep with what appears to be some Netherlands forest. You may be wondering as to the reason for the move. As if it were too hard to figure out, with all of the controversy and lawsuits surrounding TPB, Sweden wanted them out of the country. So they moved to Ukraine last week. However, that new home was short lived as apparently something didn’t work out. Imagine th at. After a brief, unwelcome stop in Ukraine, the servers found their current home mentioned previously and pictured above.
The cool part about all of this is the bunker is EMP (electro magnetic pusle) proof and obviously, can resist a nuclear attack. Chemical/biological warfare also poses no threat to TPB servers meaning labels and governments looking to kill the torrent king will have to find another method.
Earth shattering, gotta follow it news? To most no. But still something interesting no?
CrunchGear > Torrent Freak
Do you collect iPhones and iPod Touches? Have you ever held the many iDevices in your hands and imagined a world in which your iPhones and iPod Touches could be stacked together to create one sexy looking portable server? If you answered yes to any of the above, a company based out of Japan, FreeBit, would like to show you something pretty darn sweet. In the picture above you can see the stylish little case that houses up to five iPhones linking them together into a pretty cool mobile server solution. The real meat of the story however is not some flashy case but Freebit’s Serversman software. Users of iPhones, iPod Touches, and Windows Mobile devices can take advantage of the free software and set up their devices as a file viewer or mini web server. Free is always nice. However, getting 5 iPhones is a different story altogether.
**A video here shows you the various set up steps to get your iPhone mobile server up and running fast.
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