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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What else would you need that many ports for? Genuinely don't know

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In industrial settings you often need to collect data from lots of low bandwidth devices. 36 usb-to-serial adapters or something.

    I can imagine a lot of other stuff too, like some kind of interactive display in a museum or art exhibition, with lots of IO and little computation. Anything that outgrows a Raspberry Pi.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    It could be useful if you need to load documents on a large number of flash drives to hand out for some event. It could also be used with a bunch of SDR dongles for monitoring a lot of different radio signals.

    I would assume they have multiple USB controllers, so there would be a lot more bandwidth available than just using USB hubs with a normal PC.

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