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Universal Serial Bus, an industry standard for serial communication.

The Universal Serial Bus is an industry standard for serial communication, defining:

  • connectors
  • protocols
  • cables

Originally developed to have a standard for connecting devices to computers.

More info on usb.org and wikipedia.

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Poor transfer rate on Windows Server 2012 R2 on USB3 External HDD

I've upgraded from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2 on a physical server built on a 2011' Asus motherboard. Windows 2008 was known to not support USB3, and that was an issue since years because we frequently need to transfer large…
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how to configure logging on using USB token windows server 2008 R2

I have a USB token, and I want clients to use their token to log on to domain, I followed the steps from here a brief definition of what I have done yet: after installing domain and CA-server, I defined a special group, created a special certificate…
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How to connect a SATA / ESATA / USB 3.0 device over Gigabit Ethernet

I am looking for a way to connect an 5.25 SATA removable drive bay from CRU to our HP Proliant 360 blade server. Unfortunately the server has no support for USB 3.0 and no free PCI slot to upgrade USB 3.0 functionality. Also it doesn't have an eSATA…
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gnokii sometimes Initialization failed

I have problem with gnokii 0.6.31 +usb huawei e220 (centos 6.4 64 bit) Normaly works ok. echo "SMS from Huawei" | gnokii --phone huawei --config /etc/gnokiirc --sendsms 1234567890 GNOKII Version 0.6.31 Send succeeded with reference -1! But after a…
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Auto mount usb keys on a static point?

I want to create a script to backup data for casuals. They have to insert a usb key and just have to click on a script to backup data on it. Unfortunately, in Centos 6.6 auto mount change the mount point everytime, depending of the name of the usb…
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"Access is denied" trying to bring VM-attached USB hard disk back online in Disk Manager

Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V with CentOS 6.5 and CentOS 7 VMs. In Disk Manager, I right-click my USB hard drive and pick Offline. In Hyper-V Manager, I right-click either CentOS VM, and I connect the physical disk to either of the VMs as a SCSI…
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HP Proliant ML110 POST fails with large (4GB) USB Disk attached

I have a HP Proliant ML110 G5 (tower) which fails to boot whenever a large disk (4TB) is attached via USB. The machine displays the HP logo for a very long time (the POST on these machines is long anyway, but in this instance it can be 5 mins or…
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Installing Windows 7 RC on Mac OS X

Is it possible to use the Bootcamp Assistant to install Windows 7 RC on Mac OS X? Also, how do I install/boot from usb after copying the iso to the usb harddrive??
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Virtual machines confusing two different USB dongles

I am running VMware Server on a Windows Server 2003 host. I have two Windows XP guests installed on it. Each guest has some software running on it that each require a USB dongle for licensing reasons. Unfortunately, the vendor of each software…
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Which port is the High-speed USB 2.0 port on a PowerEdge R900

I want to connect a relatively low-speed SSD to a PowerEdge R900 because I need something with a decent read/write speed (nothing over 35-40MB/s) and I was having trouble identifying which USB 2.0 port is High-speed USB 2.0. This seemed like…
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Leveraging rsync for a local copy between two slow drives, benefits without a daemon

I am confused by the benefits of rsync (3.1.1) if there is no daemon running remotely, e.g. copying from a drive mounted via SMB2 (via a VPN) to an external HDD (USB 2.0, sadly). Both connections are slow (and my data is ~1TB), but I am confused how…
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All usb ports doesnt work, the mouse laser flashes but doesnt work

I received a PC with not-working usb ports. Strange thing is that when I plug my very basic USB mouse which in other PCs works just fine, the laser flashes (so the voltage is there) but it doesnt work, the cursor is not moving. The PC has windows xp…
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Using eSATA or USB to permanently connect a SATA drive for backup/recovery purposes

I had originally intended to put a 1Tb SATA drive in our new server 2012 which will most likely be a Dell or HP. The idea was that in the event of disaster recovery that SATA drive could simply be installed and read in a different machine, I have…
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What is the best way to redundantly back up to external hdd so that one of the hdds can be unplugged daily to be taken off site?

The problem I've got is that I have a Ubuntu 13.10 instance, running ownCloud, and I want to keep redundant backups of the data directory from ownCloud on two external drives (1tb, USB3). The plan is that each day one or both of these external…
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Why is there no (Debian) init.d script for usbipd? Should I write my own?

I just installed the usbip package on my Debian Wheezy (7.1) . For some reason, it comes without an init.d script. Why is there no init.d script for it? Should I roll out my own? Or am I doing something wrong? What's the best way to ensure the…
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