Red USB Ports?

Reldar · 5 Mar 2011 at 05:31

So on the back of my motherboard I have 8 USB slots. 4 black, 2 red and 2 blue.

I'm aware the blue are USB 3.0 and black are regular USB 2.0 so what's different about the red ones? Do they provide more power or something?

Thanks

Essexraptor · 5 Mar 2011 at 05:39

My guess... without consulting your MB manual... is that the top 2 red ones are eSATA ports

bifday2k · 5 Mar 2011 at 05:56

4 black = usb 2
Top 2 red = usb 2
IEEE 1394 Firewire
E-sata
2 blue = Usb 3

Hope that helps...

PhillyDee · 5 Mar 2011 at 10:28

Essexraptor said:
My guess... without consulting your MB manual... is that the top 2 red ones are eSATA ports

There is only 1 eSata on the rear, thats the one at the bottom.

Those ports are red for one simple reason, its one flow of plastic in the mould. It was probably just easier to leave them red. According to the specs they are just a bog standard usb2 port.

TrojanWhore · 5 Mar 2011 at 16:29

I believe I read somewhere that for my board (P8P67 PRO) the red ports are powered (for charging smartphones/iPods etc), though I can't recall where I read that.

zpos · 5 Mar 2011 at 17:44

TrojanWhore said:
I believe I read somewhere that for my board (P8P67 PRO) the red ports are powered (for charging smartphones/iPods etc), though I can't recall where I read that.

Guess we need someone to lick them and do the 9V battery test.

Disclaimer: If you do do this and sustain an injury then I am not responsible!

PhillyDee · 5 Mar 2011 at 19:13

TrojanWhore said:
I believe I read somewhere that for my board (P8P67 PRO) the red ports are powered (for charging smartphones/iPods etc), though I can't recall where I read that.

Hmm, sounds reasonable, Gigabyte do a similar thing.

paradisiac · 5 Mar 2011 at 19:20

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pretty sure this feature only works on some of the USB ports on my mobo, so maybe you have a similar feature and thats why those 2 are a different color?

iBSOD · 5 Mar 2011 at 20:04

The red is USB 2 and blue are USB 3.

The red ones will also power whatever is connected even when the computer is off. Well, atleast that's what it's like on my motherboard.

Essexraptor · 6 Mar 2011 at 14:21

PhillyDee said:
There is only 1 eSata on the rear, thats the one at the bottom.

Those ports are red for one simple reason, its one flow of plastic in the mould. It was probably just easier to leave them red. According to the specs they are just a bog standard usb2 port.

I did say a guess

and it was at a end of a long shift.

Now that I've looked at the user manual I confirm your info

2 x USB2
1 x firewire
1 x eSATA
(top to bottom)

Sorry to the OP for the initial duff info

JoshyKb257 · 13 Jan 2017 at 09:10

USB 3.0 devices are backward-compatible with USB 2.0, and the ports look identical, which makes some sort of visual indicator (such as a coat of blue paint or a "USB 3.0" stamp) extremely useful.

Blue USB ports are USB 3.0, black USB ports are USB 2.0, and red USB ports have increased power output.