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I am looking at connecting 2 or 3 external drives to a laptop to run as a file server/media server but also to use the laptop occasionally as a normal laptop that I can move around. I want to be able disconnect the USB drives easily and quickly so rather than plug them in directly to the USB ports I am looking at getting a decent hub to connect the drives to and then into the laptop. In theory I assume I can just disconnect the hub the one, thereby unmounting the USB drives, rather than unmounting and disconnecting the drives individually. Does does that seem logical and do I need a high spec hub (eg does it need to be a powered one)?
I am looking at connecting 2 or 3 external drives to a laptop to run as a file server/media server but also to use the laptop occasionally as a normal laptop that I can move around. I want to be able disconnect the USB drives easily and quickly so rather than plug them in directly to the USB ports I am looking at getting a decent hub to connect the drives to and then into the laptop. In theory I assume I can just disconnect the hub the one, thereby unmounting the USB drives, rather than unmounting and disconnecting the drives individually. Does does that seem logical and do I need a high spec hub (eg does it need to be a powered one)?